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 Saturday, January 17. Ballots received after the 5 p.m. deadline are ineligible.
PricewaterhouseCoopers partners Greg Garrison and Rick Rosas will tabulate the ballots, using the preferential voting system.
All eligible members of the Academy may cast their vote in the Best Picture category, while Academy members in 12 branches will nominate achievements in up to 22 categories. Films submitted in the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories are screened and selected by special voting groups of Academy members.
The 76th Academy Award nominations will be announced at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 27.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2003 will be presented on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST, beginning with a half-hour arrival segment.
