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I so very badly want to know the distribution of vote totals for today’s Oscar nominations just to see how the instant runoff voting and 5% rule worked. Like, just how hard would it have been for Scott Rudin to get 300 people to cast a first preference ballot for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close?  And further down the list, what happened in the Original Song category? Only two (or maybe just one?) song of the 39 shortlisted got the required 8.25 to qualify. Yay for Flight of the Concords, but too bad for the National, Jonsi, and Elton John, I guess.

I so very badly want to know the distribution of vote totals for today’s Oscar nominations just to see how the instant runoff voting and 5% rule worked. Like, just how hard would it have been for Scott Rudin to get 300 people to cast a first preference ballot for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? 

And further down the list, what happened in the Original Song category? Only two (or maybe just one?) song of the 39 shortlisted got the required 8.25 to qualify. Yay for Flight of the Concords, but too bad for the National, Jonsi, and Elton John, I guess.