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Races, years and categories
How a race works, switching between award years, and reading the category and nominee lists.
A race is one awards body — the Oscars, the BAFTAs, and so on. Each race runs once per award year, with its own set of categories and its own list of nominated films. Almost everything on the site hangs off a race and a year.
Choosing a race and a year
The sidebar lists every race that has an edition in the year you have selected, grouped into Major Awards, Special Races and Other Races. Above the list is a switcher that changes what you are looking at.
- Year — one award year of one race. This is the normal view.
- Decade — widens the selection out across a whole decade.
- Special — the combined and one-off races that do not belong to a single year.
Changing the year keeps you on the same race where possible. If a race did not run in the year you pick, it simply drops out of the sidebar.
The race page
This is where you will spend most of your time. It is split into tabs, and which tabs you see depends on whether you are signed in.
- Films — every film nominated in this race and year, with your progress across the top. Mark films watched and rate them here.
- Categories — the same films arranged by category, so you can see which categories you have covered and which nominee you rated highest in each.
- Picks — your predicted winners. Signed-in users only, or anyone opening a shared picks link.
- About — background on the race itself, including the ceremony date when one is set.
- Stats — your numbers for this race: films watched, runtime, category coverage. Signed-in users only.
- Leaderboard — how everyone ranks on this race. Signed-in users only.
- Friends — the same view, narrowed to people you have added. Signed-in users only.
Categories and nominations
A nomination is one film in one category of one race edition. A film can be nominated several times in the same race, and in several races at once — which is why one film you watch can move more than one progress bar.
Once results are in, winners are marked on the category list. Until then, everything shows as a nominee.
Combined and special races
A few races are aggregates rather than a single awards body. They have their own pages and their own leaderboards, and they fill up automatically from the films you have already ticked off elsewhere.
- Mega Death Race — your combined progress across the Oscars, BAFTAs and Spirit Awards, with a top-ten leaderboard.
- Mecha Death Race — the same idea for the anime race.
There is also a community spreadsheet that predates the site and is still maintained alongside it.