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Visualization of the Week: 84 years of Oscar nominees and winners

Jerry Vermanen and Chris Helt examined the Academy Awards' full history. And this year's front-runner is ...

Let the Oscar party planning begin — for good or bad, the Academy Awards nominations are out. For insight to help predict which film will win the big award, Jerry Vermanen and Chris Helt at NU.nl pulled together Oscar nominee and winner data from all 84 years of the awards, broken down by release date, film length, IMDb rating, and genre.

The following chart shows nominees and winners throughout the years based on release month:

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In which month were most nominated movies released? December, with 21.7% of all nominees. But it’s not the best month to win. November claims that one with 32.5% of nominees released in that month winning an Academy Award. July has had 0 winners and for more than 20 years, the months February, March and April had no nominees. See the full interactive chart.

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