The Sixth Annual r/oscarrace Preferential Ballot Vote
Hi all! I’m back for another year of this sub’s Best Picture Preferential Ballot vote. With this being a more wide open year I’m really excited to see who wins.
Voting this year will coincide with the window for Oscar voters to pick their winners which is from now (Feb 11, noon EST) until 8pm EST on February 18. I will look to post results on Wednesday, February 19.
For those of you unfamiliar with this format, we will be voting the same way the Academy votes for Best Picture. Once voting is done, the film with the least first place ballots gets eliminated and the second choices on those ballots become first choices. This continues until one film has more than 50% of the first choices. To my knowledge this is the sixth year this has been done, and my fourth year doing it. Previous results have been:
2019 - Parasite (120) won in the first round with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (25) the runner up (232 ballots)
2020 - Minari beat Nomadland in the final round 64-58 (123 ballots)
2021 - The Power of the Dog beat West Side Story in the final round 78-63 (141 ballots)
2022 - Everything Everywhere All at Once beat TAR in the final round 127-94 (221 ballots)
2023 - Oppenheimer beat Poor Things in the final round 256-189 (445 ballots)
Rules and guidelines below:
1 - List your preference (not what you think will win) of the 10 Best Picture nominees from 1-10. You can list less than 10 if you choose.
2 - You don’t have to have seen a film to put it on your list. Right or wrong, I would assume a fair amount of actual Oscar voters don’t watch every one before voting.
3 - You can choose whatever order wish for whatever reason you wish. You don’t have to be embarrassed or feel the need to explain your choices. Everyone’s opinion is valid. And if for whatever reason you still feel unsure posting your ballot here, you can feel free to DM me and I will include it.
4 - Please list them in one column by hitting ‘enter’ twice after each one. It makes it much easier for me to count. If they don't appear that way after you post, please consider editing the format.
5 - Although not much of an issue this year, please try to avoid using acronyms for the films’ names as it makes it harder for me to count.
6 - You are free to change your ballot up until the cut off time but if you do so, please write in EDIT at the bottom in case I have already counted it.
7 - Please, please only vote once! The issue was presented to me previously where accounts were seemingly being created just to vote for one or two specific movies. I will be reviewing when all accounts were made, so don’t waste your time for the ridiculous purpose of ballot stuffing because I am reserving the right to remove any that are deemed suspicious. And also, it's pathetic.
8 - Please don’t down vote someone else’s ballot. If someone is being rude/giving erroneous info that’s one thing but like Reddit says, it’s not a disagree button.
Where there are so many users here now let’s try to beat the 445 ballot record from last year! Ok, I'll start again:
Anora
The Brutalist
The Substance
Conclave
Wicked
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
A Complete Unknown
Dune 2
Emilia Perez