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Last Chance To Save the Oscars

Voting ends Wednesday.

Posted Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at 11:13 AM ET

Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty.

A week from this exact moment, newly minted Oscar winners will be awakening in hotel rooms in Los Angeles, their hair sticky with champagne, embracing their statuettes like lovers. Ah, wasn’t that a grand night, they’ll think. Too bad the ceremony was such a bore.

Only you can save Viola Davis (or whoever) from feeling tragic regret on what should be the greatest morning of her life! We're in the home stretch of our Fix the Oscars Hive. Voting ends Wednesday, Feb. 22, at midnight EST. Get your votes in now! Make a last-second proposal! Tell your friends and neighbors! Together we can save the Oscars. Don't let a single disappointed tear fall down Jean Dujardin's perfect cheek.

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And the Winners Are
Presenting the Slate master plan for fixing the Oscars, courtesy of your best Hive proposals.

Dan Kois
February 24, 2012
Last Chance To Save the Oscars
Voting ends Wednesday.

February 21, 2012
The 10-Year Oscar Re-Vote
Let the academy correct the errors of Oscars past, on live TV.

Lowen Liu
February 14, 2012
Cancel the Oscars, Air the After-Parties
Would you rather see Gary Oldman thank his agent or dance the funky chicken?

Katy Waldman
February 10, 2012
It's Time for Oscar Super PACs
A simple way to level the playing field for small movies.

Jessica Grose
February 08, 2012
Best Animal Actor, Term Limits for Voters, and No More Black Tie
Slate readers’ best ideas (so far) for fixing the Oscars.

Dan Kois
February 06, 2012
There Are Only Actors
It’s time to stop separating the acting categories by gender.

David Haglund
February 03, 2012
Intoxicate the Nominees
Let’s booze up the Oscars.

L.V. Anderson
February 01, 2012
Double the Stars
Why expand best picture? It’s the acting categories that need more names.

Dan Kois
January 30, 2012
The Three-Thank-Yous Rule
A modest proposal for rewarding great acceptance speeches.

Daniel Radosh
January 26, 2012
Fix the Oscars
Inept hosts. Dumb categories. Dance numbers. It is time to reform the Academy Awards.

Dan Kois
January 26, 2012
The Oscar Act-Off
Make the nominees sing for their supper.

Josh Levin
January 26, 2012