Oscar Voting Closes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Anonymous Ballots in a Best Picture Race Between ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’

“I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. Here at the end of all things.” The final Oscar voting period has closed, and anyone telling you the race is over is lying. The mystique of the Oscars depends on sealed envelopes and silent voters. Yet every season, the ballots speak. Anonymous Oscar ballots have become […]

By Clayton Davis