When the Best Picture is named Sunday at the Academy Awards it will have been selected by the 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
But would things have been different if instead the general public was tasked with awarding the Best Picture Oscar?
Over the last few months, there has been some data that suggests the sluggish economy could be improving. Mainly, the unemployment rate, which has dropped to 8.3 percent after reaching a 26-year high of 10 percent in late 2009. However, according to a new survey from Poll Postion, the public is split on whether America is entering into a period of economic recovery.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, romance in the air. However, when TouchTunes recently polled 120,000 adults as part of their third annual Love Survey, they found that the quality most important in a romantic relationship had nothing to do with chocolate, sexy lingerie or candlelight dinners.
While pro football’s ultimate champion will be decided next week, the entire NFL was a winner in 2011, as the league has never been more popular.
If you work in Miami, congratulations! According to a recent survey by online employment advice forum CareerBliss, you earn a living in the happiest American city in which to work.
The recent Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in Italy left 11 dead and 21 missing. Poll Position asked 1,145 American adults what they would do, if given the choice between waiting on a sinking ship for help or jumping into the frigid water and trying to swim to safety.
Tim Tebow may have missed out on being selected to the Pro Bowl Tuesday, but the polarizing Denver Broncos quarterback has just received a completely different type of honor.
Number 15 is the celebrity the most Americans would like to live next door to in 2012, according to a new poll.
In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement focusing attention on the “one percent” and the debate over raising taxes on the wealthy, Gallup asked 1,012 adults how much money they would need to make a year in order to consider themselves rich.
While holiday parties are thought to bring on the holiday cheer in employees, a new survey indicates they’d be a lot happier skipping the revelries and pocketing the cash equivalent instead.
We’ve all made the assumptions about a person based on whether they own a cat or a dog. But do these stereotypes have any basis in real life?
The folks at Hunch.com set out to answer that question by polling nearly 200,000 pet owners on whether they have a cat or a dog and then crossing that information with general lifestyle question the respondents also answered.
Read on for the results of the survey.
Buckle your seat belts, folks.
According to Harris Poll chairman Humphrey Taylor regarding a new survey, “The number of drivers who engage in potentially dangerous, in some cases extremely dangerous, behaviors while driving is terrifyingly high.”
