EW Launches Oscar Revote,Without Buzz

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AMPAS is Not Going to Like This
Published 10/6/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... Anne Thompson reports that Entertainment Weekly will be doing an Oscars Recall, whose purpose is…: “…to assemble a list of 7000 industry professionals who match in many ways the diversity and scale of the Academy voting membership–assuming some of the ballots never get returned–without looking at an actual Academy list, Smith insists. He wanted to keep it pure. “We built it from scratch,” says Smith. EW reporters and editors scrolled through their rollidexes. They added everyone who had ...

Revoting the Oscars: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? [Revisionist History]
Published 10/7/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Entertainment Weekly embarked yesterday on "Recall the Gold," a project likely to result in its most complex listicle to date: The magazine's editors organized a mock vote by 7,000 industry insiders invited to reconsider the Academy Awards given in 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003. The ballot includes only the six "major" categories — Picture, Director and the four acting awards — and, in editor Sean Smith's words, represents "voting without buzz." For starters, you won't see New Line hitting its Lord of the Rings campaign (or ...