So, about the Oscars...

[Grand Bob]

Originally Posted by toefer

Based on an idea I had in one of the Avatar threads, I threw together a spreadsheet of all the Best Picture nominees from the last 30 years (movies from 1979 through 2008).

Then I added up all the Oscars they were nominated for, to see if there were any particular categories that the Best Picture movies tended to come from (e.g. Do Oscar voters consider directing, editing, and all sorts of other things when voting on BP nominees... or do they just pick the stories they like?).

This may make no sense to some people, but here goes. Using the 150 movies from the last 30 years, this is the percentage of them nominated in each of the other main Oscar categories:

08.00% -- Visual Effects

Uh-oh for Avatar; I'm still rooting for it!