Article: The envelope please

PwC handles the ballot tabulation for both the Academy Awards® nomination process and the selection of the winners. Each year, in an undisclosed location, two balloting leaders assemble a crack team of accountants to count the ballots and tally the results for each of the 24 major Oscar categories. No scanning machines. No computers.

And for all 75 years PwC has been involved, no security breaches. Over the years, this painstaking process has remained much the same for each of the 12 people who have led the balloting and represented PwC at the annual Academy Awards show. Read more about it from the balloting leaders who were there...