Oscars Ballot 2025 voting: What is the printable ballot and how is it used?

With top contenders like The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Emilia Perez, and Anora joining this year's Oscars race, speculations are building up rapidly. Fans cannot wait to see who takes away the big prize in which category and for the best experience on Oscar voting, printable ballots are now available online.

To provide context, a printable Oscar ballot is a PDF document that carries all the important award categories and the nominees under them. The list contains various buckets such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor/Actress.

This document is not circulated by the official website of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. However, there are other credible online sources from where you can download and print it.

You then need to review the list, select your favorite pick from each category(by checking off your prediction on paper), scan the document, and submit it electronically after following all the instructions mentioned in the event. This voting adds more intent and fun to the pre-announcement events.

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What are printable Oscar ballots and how do they work?

Viewers can easily access Oscars ballots online through credible websites that circulate the same, usually days before the event. The documents are mostly available in PDF format and can be downloaded very easily from the internet.

The process is very simple and is yet so much fun! Users can go to the official websites of sources that provide these printable ballots. Once the PDF is downloaded, you can print it at home on a piece of A5 paper.

The ballot contains all the below mentioned categories:

• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Original Screenplay
• Adapted Screenplay
• Animated Feature
• Costume Design
• Production Design
• Sound
• Original Score
• Visual Effects
• Makeup And Hairstyling
• Original Song
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Documentary Feature
• International Feature
• Live-Action Short
• Animated Short

Once you tick your predictions on each category, the printed document has to be scanned and uploaded(or mailed) as mentioned in the respective websites. The predictions made are sometimes analyzed post the awards ceremony, and prizes are declared for the most accurate ones.

So, if you still have not done your predictions for Oscars 2025, get your printable ballots right away. Here is a list of all the websites that are currently circulating these documents.

• Entertainment Weekly (EW) - Printable ballots are available.
• Rotten Tomatoes - Downloadable ballots are available (attached with Tomatometer, Popcornmeter, which provide nominee scores to help check your prediction accuracy)
• The Gold Knight - For parties and pool events in offices, they have the best one-page ballot document.
• SiriusXM If you are looking for a free downloadable Oscar ballot, here's your go-to place.
• Vanity Fair: Printable ballot clubbed with a digital version.
• Gold Derby - Printable ballots are being circulated.

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