The Winners Will Be...

"Voters will be asked to rank their best-picture choices from 1 to 10 (though they are not required to complete the ballot in full). Then the academy will gather the ballots and separate them in piles according to voters' first choices. Each movie gets its own pile — the film that appears most frequently as a first-place choice will naturally have the largest stack, the movie with the next-most first-place votes will have the second-largest, and so forth. Then each stack is counted. If one film has more than 50% of the votes on the first round (unlikely), it will be declared the winner. If it doesn't, the academy will take the shortest stack — the movie that got the fewest first-place votes — eliminate it from contention, remove its stack from the table and redistribute those voters' second choices to all the other stacks. The tally then begins again: If a film now has passed 50% of the ballots (still pretty unlikely), it wins. If it doesn't, the auditors go to the smallest stack left, eliminate that movie, remove that stack, and go down those ballots to voters' next-highest choice (of a movie that remains in contention, of course), and redistribute the ballots across the piles once again. The process repeats until one stack ends up with a majority." [Film in Focus]

Tendo este processo de votação em conta, as minhas apostas (e não, obrigatoriamente, os meus favoritos) para a madrugada de domingo para segunda são: Avatar, Cameron, Bridges, Bullock, Waltz, Mo'Nique, Basterds (Argumento Original) e Up. Já agora, não perca o boletim de voto para a cerimónia que a Take oferece desde hoje no seu site.