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What’s The Worst Best Original Song In Oscar History?

The Academy Awards strive to highlight the most significant annual achievements in acting, the craft of making movies and, for some reason, which song from the last year was pretty good. Yes, the Oscar for best original song is a chance to look back on the small batch of tunes explicitly written for the medium […]

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Oscars 2018: Here Are Our Final Predictions

Graphics by Gus Wezerek The British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out its BAFTAs on Sunday — the last of the pre-Oscar movie honors to be awarded. That means the model that we’ve been using for the past several years to forecast the Academy Awards finally has all the data it needs for […]

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Oscars 2018: Here Are Our Early Predictions

Graphics by Gus Wezerek With the Academy Award nominees announced Tuesday morning, we have all we need to release our first projections for this year’s Oscars race. There’s no ironclad way to predict the Oscars — a couple thousand tight-lipped Hollywood insiders do not make the most easily pollable sample on the planet. Instead, what […]

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