Come next year the Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards will be based on a preferential system.

The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, Tom Sherak recently announced that the academy will be introducing a new voting system that would “best allow the collective judgment of all voting member to be most accurately represented.”

With the new voting system, nominees would be ranked in order of preference from one to 10. In all other categories, the winner with the most votes is picked. “Instead of just marking an X to indicate with one picture they believe to be the best, members will indicate their second, third and further preferences as well,” Sherak explained adding that this new process would “establish the best picture recipient with the strongest support of a majority of our electorate.”

The new voting procedure will also allow 10 films to be nominated from the original five.

Currently there are 5,800 voting members.