This year 2,796 Box Office Mojo readers participated in the Best Picture fantasy vote. Each user chose their top five movies from 2008, ranking from them from one to five. Nominees were determined as close as possible to the preferential voting system used by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is illustrated below. For a full explanation of how nominees are determined, click here.
Note: To qualify for a nomination, a movie must receive 466 out of the 2,796 votes cast. First, all ballots are sorted into piles according to their #1 choice (illustrated below). Then, the movie(s) with the least number of votes is removed from qualification and those ballots are redistributed according to the voter's next available choice among those movies still in the running. Click the "Next Step" and "Previous Step" links below to cycle through the process.
The movie above, highlighted in gold, has reached the required number of votes to achieve a nomination and further re-distribution of ballots go to those movies still in the run off (i.e., among the movies listed below).
BALLOT DISTRIBUTION BREAKDOWN
(Note: Underlined indicates the movie the ballot is being removed from. Bold text indicates the movie the ballot is being distributed to. Italics indicate the ballot is no longer in the running.)