After tickets for nominees and their family and friends, tickets for the studios, tickets for media, etc., are given away, there are only a few hundred left. “Members receive an email around the holidays, inviting them to enter a ticket lottery. And while the academy has embraced online voting, the lottery is conducted the old-fashioned way. Names are written on slips of paper and then pulled out of a drum. ‘We don’t use a hat, but it’s close,’ says an academy worker familiar with the process.”