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I’m working on a big project around the Oscars, and it's revealing just how sparse the research landscape is on Oscar voters. For example, there is only one reliable source for the average age of Oscar voters. In 2012, the Los Angeles Times conducted an investigation and concluded that Oscar voters had a median age of 62, with just 14% being aged under 50.Fourteen years have passed since then - #OscarsSoWhite, a membership overhaul, and roughly 6,000 new members, recruited in part to make the voting body look less like its “male, pale, stale” stereotype.Did it work?So I set about finding out by researching the age of the 11,200 people who vote on Hollywood’s top awards. There’s more detail on my methodology at the end in the Notes section.The average ages of Oscar votersLet’s start with the headline figure. The median Oscar voter is 64 years old, with two-thirds being between 50 and 79 years old.The youngest members are found in the Short Film and Animation branches, with a median age…

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