Oscar Nomination Polls Close Friday at 5 p.m.

Beverly Hills, CA - Voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must return their completed Oscar 
nomination ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 1.  Ballots received after the 5 p.m. 
deadline are ineligible.

Using the preferential voting system, the ballots will be tabulated under the direction of PricewaterhouseCoopers 
partners Greg Garrison and Rick Rosas.

All eligible members of the Academy may cast their vote in the Best Picture category, while Academy members in 11 
branches will nominate achievements in 21 categories.  Films submitted in the Animated Feature, Foreign Language 
Film and Makeup categories are screened and selected by special voting groups of Academy members.

After the ballots have been counted, Garrison and Rosas also proof the nominations press release, which announces 
the nominees in all 24 categories.

The 74th Academy Award(R) nominations will be announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Tuesday, February 12, at 
5:30 a.m. PST.

Academy Awards(R) for outstanding film achievements of 2001 will be presented on Sunday, March 24, at the Kodak 
Theatre at Hollywood & Highland(R) and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST.  
A half-hour arrival segment will precede the presentation ceremony at 5 p.m.

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