Voting Begins For Oscar Nominations
First Published: December 28, 2010 8:07 PM EST Credit: Getty Images
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- 
Caption Jeff Bridges takes home the Oscar for Best Actor at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood in March 7, 2010The race to the 2011 Oscars is officially on!
Nomination ballots for the 83rd Academy Awards were mailed to the 5,755 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday.
Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 PM PT on Friday, January 14, 2011. Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted.
Nomination and final Awards ballots are tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are conducted with fairness and accuracy. Prior to mailing, the PricewaterhouseCoopers staff administers a thorough verification process to ensure that there are no duplicate ballots and that none are missing. In addition to being counted and sorted, the ballots are numbered to guarantee that each one is addressed to the appropriate Academy voter.
The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 AM PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Academy Awards ceremony will air live from Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 27 on ABC.
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