Academy Award nominations will be announced Jan. 10.(Photo: Kristian Dowling, Getty Images)
Concerns over the new online voting procedure have forced the Academy
of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to extend Oscar voting.
An
academy spokesman announced late Monday that the deadline for members to
vote for Oscar nominations had been moved one day to Friday at 5 p.m.
This is the first year the academy has provided online voting for the membership.
"By
extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity
available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as
possible," Ric Robertson, the academy's chief operating officer, said
in a statement Monday. "We're grateful to our global membership for
joining us in this process."
The new voting system has been the
source of frustration, most recently from documentary filmmaker Morgan
Spurlock, who tweeted Dec. 28 that "the password they sent didn't work
for my login -- and they couldn't email me a new login, only snail
mail."
The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live Jan. 10.
USA Today