Why the Oscars are left-wing

No, actually:

You hear a lot of rubbish from conservatives about how left-wing Hollywood is, but in one overlooked respect it really is left-wing. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses, in its nomination process, a complicated form of voting that's somewhat similar to the proportional-voting scheme that sank Lani Guinier's chances of getting confirmed assistant attorney general for civil rights during the Clinton administration. If the big Hollywood studios paid any attention to the way Oscar nominations get tallied they would probably have a cow. But because alternative vote-counting methods are generally considered to be an extremely boring topic, they don't. Unfortunately, nobody else pays any attention either, which is why I try, every year around this time, to publicize the unsung benefits of instant-runoff voting.