Run up to Oscars starts today after ballots are in

MUMBAI: With the final ballots due to reach the Academy’s accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the run for the 2011-2012 Oscars will begin after the race for the same that began six months ago will come to an official end tonight at 5 pm PST.

And with that all the films, the artistes and others in the fraternity will wait with bated breath for the award ceremony due coming Sunday at the Kodak Theatre.

Since PriceWaterhouseCoopers guards the results, it is very difficult to know how close some contenders came to winning, or how many Academy members participated in the voting process.
 
History has shown that many Hollywood-area voters wait until the last possible minute to fill out their ballots and then hand-deliver them to the Academy.

That process could cause some problems this year since the ballots of members who waited until Friday or Saturday last to send off their ballots forgetting that since Monday was President‘s Day, their ballots would not arrive in time to be counted.