How Are Oscars Nominees Chosen

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is made up of around 7,000 filmmakers and film professionals, and these are the people that vote for the Oscars. You have to either go through a rigorous application process or be invited to join The Academy (almost every nominee gets an invite), and the organization itself is divided up into 17 specific branches. There’s a branch for actors, a branch for directors, a branch for editing and so on and so forth.

Nominees for each category are selected by votes from members of these specific branches. For example, only actors get to select nominees for the acting categories, and only directors get to select the nominees for Best Director. In other words, you have only specific branches to blame for any of those snubs, not the Academy at large.

However, when it comes to the Best Picture category, everyone gets to vote. For this category, a voting member must submit a list of between five and 10 nominees; for every other category, a voting member submits a list of no more than five nominees.

And then, all of those individual votes are accumulated. When submitting a list of preferred nominees, Academy members rank them according to preference. The nomination ballots are initially sorted based on the voters’ first-place ranking. If a selection reaches enough first-place votes—sometimes called the “magic number”—it becomes a nominee.

 

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1 minute ago, RAMROD said:

You have to either go through a rigorous application process or be invited to join The Academy (almost every nominee gets an invite)

So Gaga will very likely be part of the Academy if she gets a nomination next year?

[RAMROD 96,335]

Just now, Bradley said:

So Gaga will very likely be part of the Academy if she gets a nomination next year?

She could be if not already, she had been a nominee once 

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The Academy’s membership process is by sponsorship, not application.  Candidates must be sponsored by two Academy members from the branch to which the candidate seeks admission.

Additionally, Academy Award nominees are automatically considered for membership and do not require sponsors.

Nominees and sponsored candidates are reviewed by branch committees and recommendations for membership are considered by the Academy’s Board of Governors.  The Board decides which individuals will receive invitations.

https://www.oscars.org/about/join-academy

By 2019 Gaga will have 3 noms under her belt and possibly a win. Plus she's performed at the Oscars twice already and received critical acclaim. She'll be admitted into the Academy with flying colors