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Ryan on Academy Award-Nominated Films & Voting Process: WCVB

VMA associate professor, independent film producer, and Academy voting member Mike Ryan describes what it is like to be a voting member for Best Picture, and in the venue on the night, as he has attended the Oscars multiple times.

How is Best Picture determined?

If there is not one film that gets 50 percent of all the votes, they eliminate the one that has the least votes and they keep doing that until they get a 50 percent.

Watch the WCVB segment or read the text.