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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:
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.
Visualization of the Week: Bond film body count
The Guardian's Datablog team digs into Bond film data to calculate the death toll.
Skyfall, the new James Bond flick, is due out November 9. The data team over at The Guardian thought it a good time to take a deeper look at the James Bond film history and tally up the dead bodies.
Excluding the controversial Casino Royale movies and Never Say Never Again, the data the team gathered showed 1,299 deaths total, with Bond taking out 352 of those. In a post at The Guardian, they’ve broken out the data in deaths per film and deaths per Bond. They also constructed an interactive guide illustrating the deaths per Bond, per movie, as well as highlighting the most unusual deaths. The screenshot below shows Pierce Brosnan’s Bond stats from the interactive guide — Brosnan was far and away the deadliest Bond, with 135 kills over four films.
