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Oscar countdown begins
27/12/2007 12:47 - (SA)
Los Angeles - The countdown to the Oscars got under way on Wednesday as nomination ballots for February's Academy Awards were mailed to the 5 829 voters who will decide the US film world's winners and losers for 2007, a statement said.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members must return their ballots to auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers by 17:00 on January 12, exactly 10 days before the nominees are revealed in Beverly Hills.
A second round of ballots will be mailed after the nominations are announced to determine the winners of the 2007 Oscars, which will be presented at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on February 24.
Next year's Oscars race is shaping up to be one of the most open in years, with no single film so far emerging as the clear front-runner early in the movie industry's awards season.
Awards pundits believe a clutch of films are in contention for top honours, including romantic drama Atonement, gritty crime thriller No Country for Old Men and gruesome musical Sweeney Todd.
- AFP
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