The addresses on the envelopes are phony — Alec Baldwin doesn't live at 30 Rock Pl and Steve Martin doesn't live at King Tut Something-or-Other, but the 2010 Academy Award nomination ballots pictured above are for real. The ballots were mailed out on Dec. 28 to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
According to the Academy's preferential voting system, every vote is supposed to count — unless, of course, none of your choices make it into the top ten (for best picture) or top five (in case you belong to an individual branch* as well). Having said that, I should add that at most only one vote per ballot will be counted. In other words, it could be your first choice or (much less likely) your fifth or (much much less likely) your tenth — but only one will be counted depending on who among your choices has the best chances of landing a nomination.
The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US, it'll be televised live by ABC. Both Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, who co-star with Meryl Streep in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy hit It's Complicated, will share duties as Oscar hosts.
* At the Oscars, actors vote for actors, directors for directors, screenwriters for screenwriters, and so on.
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Thank you for posting this. I'd never seen those envelopes before.
I don't think it was a bad movie year. 2009 was no 2007, but still . . .
I think they should be pretty funny…With age comes wisdom and Alex is only 51 any way…It hink it will be a good show, but I don't think it was a good movie year. Clooney will win..big deal
And by Alex, I mean Alec. My brother's name is Alex, so it's a habit.
Alex Baldwin and Steve Martin? No offense, but I thought this was 2010, not 1990.