Unsung Heroes of Oscar

I normally don’t believe praising an individual or those who are there in the lime light for achievements. (Yes I do understand their hard work and I do respect them)If a firm achieves something it’s basically a collective effort rather that the ability of a CEO or any such names… ( i am not saying that a CEO is not playing any role.. but still )

Ok.. Now back to business.. I was watching Oscar this morning and in between some 2-3 minutes caught my attention. I don’t know whether everyone knows the way how Oscar award happens.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses proportional voting (also known as a preferential system) for the selection of Oscar nominees. The idea of a proportional (or preferential) vote is that nominations represent an outcome with multiple winners, and a proportional system more accurately limns the collective judgment of AMPAS voters. In a proportional system, individual voters have more of a chance to have an influence on the outcome.

Under the AMPAS nominating system, the Academy’s approximately 5,500 members receive their ballots in December. Each AMPAS members is allowed to vote as many as five times in their occupational category (actors for actors, directors for directors, writers for writers, etc.). The candidates that the member votes for are listed in declining preference, from the voter’s first choice through the fifth. To determine nominations, the votes will be counted according to the level of preference (first preference before second preference, second before third, etc.).

PricewaterhouseCoopers manually tabulates the responses according to Academy rules. Each year, it takes approximately 1,700 “person-hours” to count and verify the ballots by hand. It takes seven days to count the ballots for nominations and three days to count the ballots for winners.

So forget about the super stars. It’s the PWC Partners from the LA office does this work!!! Three days before the voting they move to an undisclosed location and do the counting manually!! Sunday morning, they’re each picked up by a bodyguard — an off-duty LAPD officer, who shadows them through the day, ensuring no one tries to steal the results. They walk the red carpet, their tuxes accessorizedonly by their Longchamps black leather briefcases, each stuffed with a set of the 24 envelopes. They each stand on either side of the stage, and they hand the appropriate envelope to the presenter before they walk out on stage.

Nice isn’t it ?

Jodhaa Akbar …..entry restricted :-)

Screening of Jodhaa Akbar was banned in Madhya Pradesh.The reason is rajput community threatened that they will set fire to cinema halls…

”The government has suspended the screening of the movie in the state with immediate effect as protests at cinema halls have posed a threat to maintenance of peace,” Commercial Tax Department Addition Secretary said. In his order banning the screening of the film produced by UTV Software Communications Ltd, Parihar said the decision was taken in accordance to provisions under the Madhya Pradesh Cinema (Regulation) Act, 1952.

Describing the depiction of the Jodhaa Bai as Akbar’s wife in the Bollywood movie as an ”insult” to the community, Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha has threatened to burn the movie reels and cinema halls screening the film, which has been directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar.

What a news.. this is called freedom.. one can make a movie the way he wanted .. others can set fire the cinema halls..

Get lost from your home land !!!!

Just fewer than 15,000 people have been moved from their homes to make way for Olympic venues, the organizers of the Beijing Olympics say.

Beijing’s Municipal Construction Committee said 14,901 people from 6,307 households had been moved.

The figures differ dramatically from those provided last year by an international campaign group.

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) said 1.25m people had been displaced ahead of the Games.

Who told you that there is some value for human rights !!!!!!

Can i have a coke pls???.. ooops its a marijuava vending machine !!!!!

Los Angeles is having marijuana vending machines… Don’t fly right away!!! thats for authorized medical marijuana users ….( ya Los Angeles do have authorized users.. Bangalore … can you hear this ? ) so make sure you get a prescription before you fly..

Two licensed marijuana dispensaries in the west coast city have unveiled 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines, this week. The machines have been installed by the Herbal Nutrition Centre in Los Angeles to help people explore little known medicinal uses of the drug.

Filled with small sachets stuffed with glistening buds of different sizes and strains, the machines will dispense marijuana in packets of 7g or 3.5g.

However, the access to the machines is strictly controlled by round the clock security guards.

Marijuana machines will offer six different types of marijuana, used to treat a wide range of medical conditions. Users can buy some 28g of marijuana a month.

sounds good right !!!!

Welcome !!!

Lets welcome the first 4 legged employee in UN.. He will help to detect explosives !!!!

Though i am not sure why i want this in my blog… i am sure about one thing … i love pets …