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UPDATE: Ballot Deadline – Tuesday Night at 11PM PST. Rob has assembled the pages for the final stage of the Awards Daily Simulated Ballot. Vote Now! After you make your selections in each category, please answer a few questions so we’ll be able to chart the demographic breakdown by age group, gender, and region of the world. ...

Rob Y has once again performed the enormous task of organizing all 282 eligible films of 2012 into a simulated Oscar ballot so that Awards Daily readers can feel what it’s like to be a simulated Academy member. ...

Deepest thanks to Rob Y for another spectacular job compiling and analyzing the final results of our 3rd annual  Simulated Oscar Ballot. Running the numbers through the filter of an interesting what-if scenario, Rob notes that while Hugo takes third in the overall poll, if The Artist is completely removed from the list, Hugo wins. “Hugo and The Artist seem to share...

UPDATE: After taking another look at the ever-changing explanations for the ever-changing rules, Rob has made a significant adjustment to our readers’ nominations for Best Picture. Redistributing votes according to the new guidelines, Midnight in Paris now enters the BP category as the 8th nominee. Rob has knocked out the massively complex task of tabulating over...

Here’s your VIP ballot for the Awards Daily simulated Oscar nominations. Our annual project to help us get a better grasp of the task Academy members face each year. Rob Y has done another bang-up job building the ballot framework. To simplify matters, for most categories you need only click your selections in a drop-down menu, choosing your candidates according...

(click here to view the full 9 rounds of voting.) Rob’s charts are so detailed and self-explanatory, there’s no need for editorializing aside from saying: Awards Daily Readers have a voice! Full results in all categories and complete demographic data after the cut. ...

Rob has finished tabulating the results of the Awards Daily Simulated Oscar Ballot. We’ll have the numbers posted early Saturday morning, along with his detailed charts showing the internal breakdown of votes in each category. Here’s one set of numbers Rob ran for us that might be interesting as an overnight appeteaser. The question has been raised many times...