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Oscar Nomination Ballots Mailed to Voting Members
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Beverly Hills, CA  Nomination ballots for the 78th Academy Awards® – 5,798 of them – were mailed today to voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Completed ballots must be at PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2006. Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted.
All nomination and final award ballots are tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are conducted with fairness and accuracy.
Prior to mailing, the PricewaterhouseCoopers staff administers a thorough verification process to make sure there are no duplicate ballots and that none are missing. In addition to being counted and sorted, each ballot is numbered to guarantee that it goes to the correct Academy voter.
Nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m.
Editors: Please note that downloadable images are available at
http://photos.oscars.org/.
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