The Academy is made up of more than 6,000 members, but to land a Best Picture nomination you only need to persuade 300 of them that your film is the year’s best.
That’s one lesson from TheWrap’s annual calculation of how many votes it takes to secure a nomination in the 24 Oscar categories.
The Academy has compiled its annual list of the eligible members in each branch, which this year showed that voting membership has passed the 6,000 mark for the first time since AMPAS began restricting the number of new members more than a decade ago.
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