Rules / Errata & Discussion

Rules

Individual posts will represent a particular year, with the body of the post showing the final nominees and winners. The committee (posters) will post their own ballots in the comments section, as well as recommendations and discussion.

Primary Categories:

These categories follow the 100 point nominating system. A ballot must include these categories to be considered.

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best B/W Cinematography (these will be combined in years where less than five of either type are nominated)

Secondary Categories:

These categories are nominated and counted as equal in value. No weight will be given via points or rank. None of these categories are required.

Best Editing, Best Art Direction / Design, Best Costumes, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Original Song

Nominations:

In each primary category, a member must allocate 100 points among a maximum of 10 nominees, and a minimum of 5. No nominee can recieve more than 30 points, and no less than 5. Thus, a member may nominate seven films, as long as the total points allocated equals 100.

Ballots may be changed at anytime, provided that the number of points added or removed are annotated in the new ballot.

In order to avoid ties, the total number of final nominees will correspond to the total number of committee members posting a ballot. Thus, tabulation will begin when 5 ballots are posted in one year. Any number of members may post a ballot, and any ballot over 5 will add a slot to the final nominees. Thus, when 6 members have posted, there may be 6 final nominee slots. This proceeds to a max of 10 slots. This does not effect individual ballots. All members may post up to 10 nominees. This only effects the FINAL number of nominees. The decade administrator will be resonsible for tabulating the results and updating them every 5 ballots. Although a tabulator may decide to update the final nominees at any point, it is only required at 5, 10, 15, etc. If over 10 members post a ballot, the final nominations remains at 10. The tabulator's word is the last word.

The following is a sample ballot with points allocated, and a ballot that has been changed. Note that it's important to show the number of points being subtracted and added, as well as the new point total in order to ensure that the tabulator subtracts and adds correctly.

BEST PICTURE
The Big Sleep (18)
Notorious (17)
Beauty and the Beast (13)
My Darling Clementine (11)
Shoe Shine (11)
Paisan (10)
It's A Wonderful Life (5)
The Stranger (5)
The Black Angel (5)
Undercurrent (5)

BEST PICTURE (edited 8/10/04)
The Big Sleep (18)
Notorious (17)
Beauty and the Beast (13)
My Darling Clementine (11)
Shoe Shine (-2 to 9)
A Matter of Life and Death (+9)
The Black Angel (5)
The Stranger (-1 to 4)
Undercurrent (-2 to 3)
It's a Wonderful Life (-5 to 0)

Winners: The nomination with the most points from individual ballots will be the winner in primary categories. In secondary categories, the nominee mentioned on the most ballots is the winner.

Best of the Decade

Each decade year a committee member may post a ballot of up to 10 nominations within the following categories: Best Filmmaker, Best Performer, Best Screenwriter, Best Composer, Best Cinematographer, Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, and Best Short Film. Unlike the yearly nominees, these will be unranked and each nomination will be equal. Each artist must have at least two film credits in that decade.

Committee / Administration

All previous RT Percy participants, plus recommended cineaste's, and those who beg! Current members are:
amory_blaine, bartman_9 (Bart), harrytuttlert, liberallass, lonchaney (charlie), misterjiggy, mreguyinla, nostalghic, raidersofthefoundark, vornporn (Jeff), Yancy, jesse.

Administrators are tabulators. They have the final word in any dispute in tabulation, and are free to resolve any problem with their god-like powers and incredible will.

Harry: 90's, Nostalghic: 80's, Mreguyinla: 70's, Jesse: 60's, Jeff: 50's, Charlie: 40's, 30's, 20's