Statistical Analysis: How Much I Agree with the Oscars

[CarsonWid]

I conducted an analysis of some of the Academy Award categories over the past 20 years to see which Awards I gave higher and lower scores to, and which years I gave higher and lower scores to. I analyzed the results from the previous 5, 10, 15, and 20 year time frames.

I picked the following Awards: Screenplays, Acting categories, Picture, Directing, Animated, Score, and Cinematography

The conclusions can either be that I agree with certain decisions more, or that those awards represent categories which are more important to me in a movie.

Here are the results:

- Animated Feature was always the LOWEST ranked Award
- Best Actress was the 2nd LOWEST ranked category
- the 2 Actress categories were always ranked LOWER than the 2 Actor categories
- The 2 supporting acting categories were always ranked HIGHER than the 2 leading acting categories
- Directing, Adapted Screenplay, and Cinematography were my HIGHEST ranked categories
- 1999, 2007, and 2010 were the years I most agreed with (Due to American Beauty, No Country, There Will Be Blood, and Social Network)
- 1997, 2005, and 2009 were the years I most disagreed with (Due to Titanic, Crash, Avatar, and The Blind Side)

I might expand onto this and add more technical categories, but I was going off of what Awards had Criticker Collections for them already.

I tried to attach my spreadsheet for anyone who wanted to do the same, but .xlsx files were not allowed. Regardless, it's a simple spreadsheet and easy to make.

[mattorama12]

Not too surprising that the acting categories tended to be generally lower than the other categories. It's easier to imagine a great performance in an otherwise mediocre movie, as opposed to something like great direction in an otherwise mediocre movie.

What's a little more surprising is that animation was so low for you. Since that category ostensibly goes to the best overall animated movie, you'd expect that to correlate about as highly as "best picture." Perhaps you simply aren't one for animation. Or perhaps your taste in animation is just much more different from the Academy than your taste in other types of film.

[CarsonWid]

I found it odd as well because I generally like Animated films and usually agree with the selections. It's really the last 3 years that affected the results the most. Had Wreck-It-Ralph and Lego Movie won then I think those numbers would have been better.