Nightly News | February 20, 2012
Who is the 'Academy'?
While the actual identities of the voters are kept secret, a new investigation found that 94 percent of the voters who decide the Oscars are white. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>>> also as the oscar countdown begins there is a new and realistic portrait of who the academy is. who votes on the films in the running and the voters are overwhelmingly white and male. while the list of close to 6,000 is secret there was a survey that found they are 94% white, 77% male. blacks make up 2% of the academy. latinos, less than that. the paper found some voting members had left the film business long ago including a nun and a bookstore owner and their votes count as much as the big stars and the studio heads.