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Final voting will soon open, and with it comes the annual Oscar rite of passage: Doing your civic duty for cinema, making tough artistic choices and trying desperately to remember who won last year.<\/p>\n
Now, the Academy introduced real updates meant to make voting cleaner, fairer and less confusing. The headline change is simple: Members are now formally required to demonstrate they\u2019ve watched a film before voting for it in that category. That\u2019s always been the expectation. What\u2019s new is the technology enforcing it, plus a few ballot tweaks that will change how voting feels in practice.<\/p>\n
Only 50 films are recognized across all categories, matching last year and marking the lowest total since 2008. It was a profoundly top-heavy year. Whether that reflects shrinking viewing habits, an oversaturated landscape or simply an unusually dominant crop of contenders remains to be seen. Watching 50 movies is, and should always be,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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