The ranked voting system aims to level the playing field among best picture nominees, and tends to benefit movies that are crowd-pleasing rather than sharply polarizing. So how does it work?

Backbenchers today urged ministers to be bold and reform the 'unrepresentative' voting system used for general ... and producing more and more random results, more outliers, more MPs elected ...

Oklahoma House passes a bill to replace random drawing in tied elections with a second vote, aiming for fairer resolution.