What happens at a Smithees Ceremony?
First of all, no audience members are ever harmed in the making of the Smithee Awards . Upon entering the theater, each member of the audience is given an Official Smithee Award Voting Kit, consisting of a pencil, a cheap pad of scratch-paper, and a sense of impending loss of sanity. After a brief introduction by Your Host, things generally take the following turn: • The upcoming category is described as a colorful title slide is displayed, courtesy of our Computer Graphics Guru. • The five nominated clips are shown from the Master Smithees Video (assembled by our Video Editing Department). • There is a short period of recuperation. • A “reminder” slide is displayed, showing the names of the clips with an associated number. • Each audience member uses his/her Voting Kit to write down the number of the clip he/she feels most deserving of a Smithee Award. • The Envelope Bimbo and her assistants go around and collect all the audience’s ballots. • The ballots are handed off to our Official
