SHOTLIST AP Television Beverly Hills, CA 10 February 2010 1. Wide exterior Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) building with pan down 2. Close-up shot AMPAS sign 3. Pan down Oscars poster 4. PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants wheel in trays of ballots 5. Close-up shot PricewaterhouseCoopers employee going through ballots 6. Wide PricewaterhouseCoopers employee going through ballots 7. Medium PricewaterhouseCoopers employee going through ballots, with pan right 8. Close-up shot Official Final Ballot for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards 9. Wide Official Final Ballot for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards with pan 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rick Rosas/Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers: "Today''s the day that we''re actually taking custody of the ballots from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and handing them directly to the U.S. Postal Service, so they can be delivered directly to each and every voter of the Academy. There are roughly 5800 voting members of the Academy, and we''re having the mailed out today to those voters. And those ballots will be returned right to us at PricewaterhouseCoopers, not later than 5 o''clock on March 2nd. And then Brad and I, and a small team, will tabulate the results to determine the results of this year''s Academy Awards." 11. Medium PricewaterhouseCoopers employees going through ballots 12. Close-up shot hands of PricewaterhouseCoopers employees going through ballots 13. (Reporter: "Must ballots always be counted while wearing suits?") Laughter abounds. (Reporter: "I only ever see you guys wearing suits.") SOUNDBITE (English) Bradley Oltmanns/Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers: "We don''t wear our suits, but we make sure our fingers are clean. (Laughs.)" 14. Various close-up shots Official Final Ballot for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, closing with detail of list of 10 best-picture nominees 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Sherak/President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on the expansion of the Best Picture category from five to 10 nominees: "I think that the Academy voters gave us exactly what we were looking for: a little bit of everything. I think that they did a great job of giving us 10 wonderful movies. You know? If you plan something and you''re looking for it to be one way, and it shows up to be that way you start to feel really good about what we hope will be a wonderful night." 16. Setup shot Academy president Tom Sherak 17. (Reporter: "And do you still get to cast your ballot as an Academy member?") SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Sherak/President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: "Oh, yeah. I actually asked upstairs if I could take it out of the box and take it home with me. But they said, ''The postage is on it already,'' so I might as well leave it. Yes, I''m an Academy member and I get to cast my ballot, too. Yes." 18. PricewaterhouseCoopers partners Rick Rosas and Bradley Oltmanns and Academy president Tom Sherak wheel cart of ballots out to mail truck. 19. Pan up from box of ballots to mail carrier loading trays onto truck 20. Close-up shot United States Postal Service logo with pan up to reveal driver pulling away from Academy building OSCAR BALLOTS MAILED Final Oscar ballots went out Wednesday (10 February) to the 5,777 voting members of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the firm that has tallied Oscar votes for the past 76 years, took over the AMPAS lobby to transfer the ballots from the Academy to the United States Postal Service. The counting begins after 5 p.m. 2 March, when all ballots are due back to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Luckily, all we have to do is watch when the results are revealed at the Academy Awards 7 March. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/79c8dc6fd996bb536b1156ed7d20ce40 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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