FULL RESULTS DATA HERE

RESULTS AND NEXT ROUND HERE

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So, first of all, this is not an attempt to mimic the Community Awards run by Gonzo. This is an experiment where we vote for the best films of 2019 using the EXACT SAME RULES as the Oscars do for Best Picture.

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Instructions to vote:

1) You vote to nominate up to 5 films, but you must rank your choices.

2) You can only vote for Oscar Eligible Films, which means films that had a qualifying run in Los Angeles in 2019. I have included *all* of these in the list. If it's not here, you can't vote for it. [Films missing from the Letterboxd database: Flint Tale, Josef (Born in Grace), Mad?, My Stretch of Texas Ground, One Little Finger, Scotland, Single Slipper Size 7, South Central Love, A Wishing Tree].

3) If you have voted, please let me know in the comments.

4) Please like this list. This experiment only works if there's a lot of votes (see below), which means this list needs exposure.

On the day of the Academy Award Nominations, I hope to reveal the nominees of the Letterboxd Oscars too. I may have to postpone if it takes me longer to calculate.

If you're willing to not be anonymous, you can vote in the comment section here.

You can vote now, and edit your votes later! [just let me know if you do this]

How Oscar voting works:

The Oscar nomination process works on ranked choice voting. The bar to qualify is that a film must get 5% of the first choice votes, and there must be between 5 and 10 nominees.

Firstly, we look only at the first choice votes of voters. If more than 10 films reach 5% of the votes, we pick the most popular 10 as nominees. If not, we eliminate the films with the fewest number of first-choice votes. The "second choice" on those ballots now become the first choices. If we still do not have 10 nominees, we repeat this process.

The process ends if we reach 10 films having 5% or more of the current first-choice votes. Those 10 films become the nominees.

The process also ends if there are only 5 films not eliminated. Those 5 become the nominees.

If we reach a point where every ballot is either empty or has a current first-choice vote for a film that has over 5% of the vote, the process ends. The nominees are those films that remain. This is the most likely outcome.

This is quite an interesting system. Hence I thought it would be fascinating to try it with a group of voters who are not your typical Academy voters.

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Thanks for participating!