# oscar voting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-voting/231331>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-voting/231331 "2004-02-26T19:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![legav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c37758/32.png) [@legav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legav)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-voting/231331/1 "2004-02-26T19:54:50Z")

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I can’t get a definitive answer on how Oscar voting works: who decides the nominees and who is eligible to vote in which categories for the winners.

Some things I’ve read say that only editors (for example) determine the editor nominees; and then everyone in all categories (actors, directors, etc) vote for the Best Editor. But then I have read other explanations that conflict with that. The Oscar website it strangely silent on the topic. Does anyone have the inside scoop on this?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-voting/231331/2 "2004-02-26T20:14:21Z")

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The Academy, as always, has [the inside scoop](http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/rule06.html).