If you’re filling out an Oscar ballot at home, you’ll want to check the stats with a mathematician and movie lover from Pennsylvania.
If you’re filling out an Oscar ballot at home, you’ll want to check the stats with a mathematician and movie lover from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Ben Zauzmer from Upper Dublin calls his system “Oscarmetrics” and he wrote the book on it.
He says it all started when he was a freshman at Harvard University.
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“I just wanted to find a way to calculate the percentage chance of each nominee in every category,” Zauzmer says. “I wasn’t able to find that, so I just decided to do it myself.”
This year, the Oscarmetrics predict some strong winners.
“Best Picture and Best Director are looking like ‘Oppenheimer’ and Christopher Nolan pretty clearly,” Zauzmer says.
