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Unmasking the Oscar voter
Click on the categories below to see details about the 5,765 members.
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Explore more, including a breakout of the individual branches. | Source: Times reporting. Data Analysis: Doug Smith, Illustration by Michael Glenwood / For The Times, Design and interactivity: Armand Emamdjomeh and Lily Mihalik.
When the names of winners are revealed on Oscar night, months of suspense give way to tears, smiles and speeches. Yet when the curtain falls, one question remains: Who cast the votes?
About 37 million people tuned in to the Academy Awards last year, and a great deal rides on the show's outcome. Winning a golden statuette can vault an actor to stardom, add millions to a movie's box office and boost a studio's prestige. Yet the roster of all 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a closely guarded secret.
Even inside the movie industry, intense speculation surrounds the academy's composition and how that influences who gets nominated for and wins Oscars. The organization does not publish a membership list.
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