Another Movie Tradition Lost to Social Media: Oscar Balloting

The Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Sciences, which presents the Oscars every year, has officially set the Oscar ballot process into the social media bubble. That’s right, very soon, the annual mailing of the official Oscar ballots, which is one of the most traditional aspects of the annual Academy Awards cycle, will be history.

The Academy sent a letter to its roughly 6,000 voting members advising them that an electronic system for Oscar voting will be implemented “as early as this year, and will certainly be in effect by next year,” according to the New York Times.