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Oscar Ballots Mailed - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced they've mailed out the Oscar nomination ballots to 5,755 voting members of the Academy. Ballots are due back on January 14, 2011 at 5pm PT (and yes, they are very strict about that deadline). There are 248 feature films eligible to be considered in the Best Picture category, and it would be really interesting to learn how many films on average each Academy voter watches before casting his or her votes. Studios mail out screeners of films they are pushing, but the numbers of screeners sent out is nowhere near 248. Oscar Ballots Mailed PricewaterhouseCoopers is once again in charge of tallying the votes. Nominees will be announced on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT. The 83rd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA. Oscar Ballots Mailed