The idea behind it all wasn't to cause trouble — Roberto Benigni gets to keep his trophy, no matter what our recount says — but to see which films and performances really have endured. It's impossible to say how the votes really came down on Oscar nights of yore, but our results indicate that some past contests may have been a lot closer than they looked on TV.

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