Take one look at recent best picture winners, and it’s clear the Academy has transformed dramatically over the past decade. Moonlight, Parasite, Nomadland, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Anora are not the types of movies that historically won Oscars before the Academy broadened its membership with an emphasis on greater diversity and globalization.
But while the Academy has changed, Hollywood’s expensive Oscar campaigning machinery may not have kept up.
Stephen Follows, a film data researcher, educator and Substacker, has analyzed nearly a century of data for his new site, Awards Almanac, and I’m exclusively revealing four findings that challenge conventional wisdom about what it takes to win an Oscar.
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