Rule Seventeen
Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award

1. A reminder list of all eligible pictures shall be sent with a nominations ballot to all active and life members of the Academy who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five productions.

2. The five pictures receiving the highest number of votes shall become the nominations for final voting for the Best Picture Award.

3. The individual(s) who shall be credited for Academy Award purposes shall be the person(s) having screen credit as producer or produced by. Persons with screen credits of executive producer, co-producer, associate producer, line producer, produced in association with, or any other credit, shall not receive nominations or Academy Statuettes. Studio executives and personal managers with producer credit are likewise ineligible for Best Picture nominations and statuettes unless they have fully functioned as producers on the picture. No more than three producers may be nominated or receive statuettes; if more than three producers are credited on a nominated picture, the Academy Award recipients shall be those three or fewer who have performed the major portion of the producing functions. The Producers Branch Executive Committee shall resolve any questions of eligibility.

4. Final voting for the Best Picture Award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members.