The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences only grew by 108 members this year, so there’s not much change in the answer to our annual question: How many votes does it take to get an Oscar nomination?
According to an AMPAS Branch Count dated Dec. 11, 2024, the Academy now has 9,905 voting members, 108 more than it did in mid-December of 2023. We’ll get into the number breakdown in a minute, but that basically means that it’ll take 901 votes to get a Best Picture nomination this year, 10 more than it took to get one last year.
The Actors Branch, meanwhile, continued its slow decline, losing another 36 members as it dropped to 1,258 members.