The 87th Academy Awards ceremony starts this Sunday at 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time, and though the golden envelopes haven’t yet been opened, prognosticators are already hard at work predicting the winners.
There’s a vast gambling market surrounding the festivities, perhaps because many of the categories can often be predicted with a reasonable–but far from perfect–degree of accuracy. Film data analyst Stephen Follows posits that it’s possible to pick winners with a success rate of 77% for Bes...
Published on February 19, 2015 11:13