Crunching the numbers for Oscar Sunday is now an actual job for an Upper Dublin, Pa. mathematician. Last year, Ben Zauzmer accurately predicted 19 out of 20 categories.
"The model also likes Cate Blanchett for Best Actress," he says, "but Michelle Yeoh is very much in contention."
Rounding out the list: "It's Ke Huy Quan for Supporting Actor and Angela Bassett for Supporting Actress. But in that race, you've got both Jamie Lee Curtis and Kerry Condon and they are very strong.". Now, Zauzmer is tasked with making the official picks for publications like the Hollywood Reporter.Best Picture, he says, proved to be a much easier equation this year.
"The model says for Best Picture and for Best Director that 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is the front runner," Zauzmer says."That one is actually perhaps the easiest category of the year," he says. "It's not always true, it just happens to be true this year. That seems to be the clear front runner."
Zauzmer says this is not personal - it's pure math, and sometimes the numbers are dead on. Last year, his Oscarmetrics accurately predicted 19 out of 20 categories."Ninety-five percent of the favorites won their awards, which was shockingly good for the model," he says."There are a lot of reasons to believe this could be an Oscar night with a lot of twists and turns," Zauzmer says.
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