Not all Academy members can vote for every award category Richard Harbaugh/The Academy via Getty Every year, members of the Academy nominate films for over 20 different Oscar categories The short ...

Final voting will soon open, and with it comes the annual Oscar rite of passage: Doing your civic duty for cinema, making tough artistic choices and trying desperately to remember who won last year.

Voters in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties can also visit vote centers — many of which opened over the weekend — to cast the ballot mailed to them, obtain a replacement ballot or one in a ...