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| The Julianne Moore Rule If someone wins an award for multiple films, they get no points
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| The Tie Breaker In the rare case of a tie for fifth place, the producer, director, actor, or screenwriter with the most awards for that film gets a tiny bonus: an extra 0.01 points! We count everything listed on IMDb.com - including festival wins and local critics' awards.
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The Formula's Most Important Rule The scores in the Picture and Director categories are divided by 2.5, unless... |
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The Acting Categories |
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| The Meryl Streep Rule If an actor or actress has won an Oscar and been nominated at least twice for acting, they can earn 2 extra points - but only if they already have 2 points or more from at least two awards. At least one of those awards must be something other than the Golden Globes, BAFTA, or SAG. Bonus twist: Supporting actor winners can get these extra points for leading roles, and leading actor winners can get them for supporting roles!
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| The Kate Winslet Rule One performance, one category: either leading or supporting. The first award a performance wins, is runner-up for, or is nominated for determines its category. After that, the performance can earn points if: it wins any award (category doesn't matter), it's nominated or runner-up in its assigned category, or it's nominated by the SAG or BAFTA (category doesn't matter here either). Exceptions - Changing the Category: Sometimes the first award isn't enough to lock a performance into a category. If that first award is the only mention in one category (e.g., Leading Actress), and there are multiple mentions in the other (e.g., Supporting Actress), the category can switch. For example: 2 mentions in Leading Actress can be overridden by 8 Supporting Actress mentions 3 mentions in Leading Actress can be overridden by 12 Supporting Actress mentions ...and so on An award does NOT determine the category if: - Different actors from the same film win that award - The awarding group doesn't have a separate category for supporting performances |
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| The Alicia Vikander Rule If an actor has multiple performances in the top 5 of the same category, only the one that got points first will stay in the top five. If both performances earned their first points from the same award, the performance with the higher total score at the end of the formula takes the spot.
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