We may not know what film is going to be named Best Picture at the Academy Awards on March 2, but here’s one thing we do know:
Unlike the Producers Guild Awards on Sunday, the Oscars will not end in a tie.
That’s because the preferential system used to count ballots makes it easy to use tiebreakers to resolve a deadlock and select a single winner. The PGA does not have a tiebreaker system in place – but in response to an inquiry from TheWrap, the Academy and PricewaterhouseCoopers said that the Oscars would indeed use tiebreakers to determine a single Best Picture.