Now that the final round of Oscar voting is over, it is a good time for a refresher course in how the winner will be decided. Don't worry, it is nowhere near as complicated as the nominations ...

In 2009 -- when the academy went to 10 Best Picture nominees for the first time since 1943 -- the preferential system of voting, which had been used from 1934 to 1945, was reintroduced. The academy ...

Eminence Advisory’s Dimitri Burshtein discusses compulsory preferential voting in Australia, reflecting on the problems associated with the system. “Democracy is meant to represent something, it’s ...