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Los Angeles, Sept. 19 (Reuters): Voting for the Oscars is going electronic for the first time in a move that will speed up the process and could give a boost to younger, edgier movies.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said yesterday that a new online voting system will be used for the first time in its 85-year history for the Oscars that will be handed out in February 2013.
In a transition process, the academy’s 6,000 members also will be able to use traditional paper ballots to nominate and select the best actors, films, directors, screen writers and other winners of 2012.
In the past, Oscar ballots have been mailed around the world to Academy members — directors, actors, screenwriters, producers and other leading film industry figures — and the results have been tabulated by hand by the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm.
Industry watchers said the move to electronic voting could be difficult for some academy members, who have a reputation for being older and more conservative by nature.
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