BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Final ballots have gone out to voters for next month's Academy Awards.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed ballots Wednesday to about 4,300 members living in California. Ballots to members who live outside of California went out last week.
Voters must return ballots by 5 p.m., March 19, to the academy's auditing firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, which will tabulate the results.
This year, PricewaterhouseCoopers veteran ballot partner Greg Garrison will be joined by Rick Rosas, the 11th Oscar ballot partner in the firm's 67-year association with the awards. Rosas replaces Lisa Pierozzi, who left PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Before winners are announced March 24, Garrison and Rosas will be the only two people who know the Oscar results. On Oscar night, they each will carry briefcases with sealed envelopes containing the winners' names and will be driven to the show in separate cars under armed guard.
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