stackyFACTSHollywood math has always been aggressively terrible, and the early Academy Awards were the absolute peak of numerical delusion.
Hollywood math has always been aggressively terrible, and the early Academy Awards were the absolute peak of numerical delusion. During a notorious Best Actor race, Wallace Beery literally had three fewer votes than the winner, Fredric March. However, the Academy's galaxy-brain bylaws stated that any margin of three or less constituted an 'exact tie'. So they just gave them both statues, proving that prestige is just a byproduct of not wanting to recount the ballots.
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