The ballots are all in.
Millions of television viewers around the globe will tune in Sunday (Monday morning, Philippine time) to watch the Oscars, the glitziest night in showbiz, but most don’t know how the winners are chosen.
Answer: more than 9,300 people in the entertainment industry select the honorees. The number is a record high. But who are they and how did they get to become voters?
Here is a look at the complex, sometimes confounding process that leads to the winners of the 23 Academy Awards.
Who votes?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles currently has 9,362 voting members.
Academy membership is divided into 17 branches — actors…
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