Should Awards Bodies Publicly Release Voting Totals?

[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 76 Posts: 3306 View Predictions]

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I’ve been thinking, whenever there’s an awards show, whether it be the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, Golden Globes, SAG, Critics Choice, BAFTA, etc., we never know just how many votes each nominee and winner received in the final voting. We have public access to how many votes political candidates have received, but never for these awards shows. Do you think awards bodies should release past and future voting data for us awards buffs to look at consume. I personally think they should because it would provide some truly valuable evidence as to who truly won in a landslide or who won in a close race. But what do you guys think?

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[Nameizmann Joined: Jan 16th, 2020 Topics: 20 Posts: 234 View Predictions]

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No, unless suspicion of fraud requires disclosure or something. It would be fun for a while, then it would be less fun than it is now. And aside from entertainment value, I don’t see why they should.

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 76 Posts: 3306 View Predictions]

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I say they should be released for historical purposes, just like political elections.

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[ArtIsntEasy Joined: Dec 17th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 421 View Predictions]

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I did vote yes on a selfish level but I can only imagine how a performer might feel (at least one who is Gaga for winning awards) might feel if they saw themselves in last place or that they lost by a single vote.

“The art of making art is putting it together...”

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[Nameizmann Joined: Jan 16th, 2020 Topics: 20 Posts: 234 View Predictions]

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Awardsfan1990 wrote:

I say they should be released for historical purposes, just like political elections.

It would be nice to see them release the results for old (50+ yrs) ceremonies at least.

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[Bassett Joined: Dec 21st, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 2162 View Predictions]

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I can’t imagine the mess. I wish something random would leak just once though

FYC :

Best Actress - Viola Davis, Frances McDormand
Best Actor - Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman
Best Supporting Actor - Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman
Best Picture - Nomadland
Best Director - Chloé Zhao
SAG Ensemble - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Cinematography - Nomadland

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[maxinho Joined: Jan 28th, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 652 View Predictions]

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They should release it after 10 or 20 years, maybe when the artist nominated are dead or too old to care. I don’t know.

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[M: The Original Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 8 Posts: 880 View Predictions]

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Would be nice to how Close was Glenn Close?

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[vlaxym Joined: Dec 29th, 2011 Topics: 5 Posts: 30 View Predictions]

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NO!

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[diego Joined: Dec 10th, 2019 Topics: 9 Posts: 1321 View Predictions]

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No. But, I would like to see how real are all those “ties” at the Critics’ Choice.

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[Stank83 Joined: Mar 8th, 2020 Topics: 83 Posts: 1406 View Predictions]

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I think it would be nice to see the ranking results of this year’s Best Picture, because after Parasite, i’m pretty sure the actual runner-up was Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, not 1917 which didn’t even have enough passion to get a split, and thus the Directing win.

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[eastwest Joined: Jun 6th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 232 View Predictions]

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No

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[Hoster1 Joined: Aug 8th, 2016 Topics: 2 Posts: 1431 View Predictions]

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I would kill for an information about which movies / actors finished in say Top 15.

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[Wanda Joined: Feb 16th, 2019 Topics: 23 Posts: 1815 View Predictions]

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It would be fun but I feel like this would push overdue narratives even further and I’m not here for it.

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[RobertPius Joined: Nov 22nd, 2012 Topics: 26 Posts: 462 View Predictions]

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It would be entertaining for awards geeks like us but embarrassing for the nominees.

I’d secretly love it if they did it like beauty pageants…the fourth runner up is…the third runner up is…(sort of like that thing Amy Poehler organized for the Comedy Actress Emmys that one year.)

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