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Predicting Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards

January 12, 2026

February 23rd, 2026

Once again, we had only one new data point: the BAFTAs. One Battle After Another took home the best film there, bringing its chances of winning Best Picture to 77%…

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Tags Film, Machine Learning, Forecasting

Archive

  • 2026
    • Jan 12, 2026 Predicting Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards Jan 12, 2026
  • 2024
    • Dec 30, 2024 R and Python Together: Refactoring and Prompt Engineering A Previous Case Study, Using the Perplexity API Dec 30, 2024
    • Dec 21, 2024 Rethinking How I Do Supervised Topic Modeling, Using ModernBERT and GPT-4o mini Dec 21, 2024
    • Dec 1, 2024 Predicting Best Picture at the 2025 Academy Awards Dec 1, 2024
    • Apr 14, 2024 R and Python Together: A Second Case Study Using LangChain's LLM Tools Apr 14, 2024
    • Mar 24, 2024 Using R and Python Together, Seamlessly: A Case Study Using OpenAI's GPT Models Mar 24, 2024
    • Mar 3, 2024 Modeling the Oscar for Best Picture (and Some Insights About XGBoost) Mar 3, 2024
  • 2023
    • Jul 20, 2023 Supervised Topic Modeling for Short Texts: My Workflow and A Worked Example Jul 20, 2023
  • 2022
    • Oct 1, 2022 Probabilistic Photograph Manipulation with ggplot2 and imager Oct 1, 2022
    • May 6, 2022 Color-Swapping Film Palettes in R with imager, ggplot2, and kmeans May 6, 2022
  • 2021
    • Sep 21, 2021 Why and How to Model Conditional Variance, with an Application to My Letterboxd Data Sep 21, 2021
    • Apr 29, 2021 Exploring the Star Wars "Prequel Renaissance" Using tidymodels and workflowsets Apr 29, 2021
  • 2020
    • May 17, 2020 Quickly Making an R Shiny Bingo App May 17, 2020
    • Apr 16, 2020 Examining Aphex Twin's Eclectic Discography With the Spotify API and Generalized Variance Apr 16, 2020
    • Apr 5, 2020 A Function for Calculating Tidy Summaries of Multiple t-tests Apr 5, 2020
    • Mar 20, 2020 Introducing bwsTools: A Package for Case 1 Best-Worst Scaling (MaxDiff) Designs Mar 20, 2020
  • 2019
    • Jul 13, 2019 Simulating Data in R: Examples in Writing Modular Code Jul 13, 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 5: Importance of Movie Characteristics May 30, 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 4: Age and Nostalgia May 30, 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 3: Sexism and Political Attitudes May 30, 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 2: The Three Major Types of Star Wars Fans May 30, 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Star Wars Fandom Survey, Part 1: Methods, Demographics, Validity Checks May 30, 2019
    • Apr 28, 2019 How I Put Logos on ggplot2 Figures Apr 28, 2019
    • Apr 9, 2019 Confidence Interval Coverage in Weighted Surveys: A Simulation Study Apr 9, 2019
    • Jan 23, 2019 Using Word Similarity Graphs to Explore Themes in Text: A Tutorial Jan 23, 2019
  • 2018
    • Nov 25, 2018 How Do We Judge a Probabilistic Model? Or, How Did FiveThirtyEight Do in Forecasting the 2018 Midterms? Nov 25, 2018
    • Oct 29, 2018 In Support of Open Seeding in the NBA, Pt. 2 Oct 29, 2018
    • Oct 14, 2018 Explicitly Optimizing on Causal Effects via the Causal Random Forest: A Practical Introduction and Tutorial Oct 14, 2018
    • Aug 20, 2018 How Big Should the Control Group Be in a Randomized Field Experiment? Aug 20, 2018
    • Apr 14, 2018 On Calculating Power for Interactions in 2 x 2 Factorial Designs Apr 14, 2018
    • Jan 5, 2018 The Force is Too Strong with This One? Sexism, Star Wars, and Female Heroes Jan 5, 2018
    • Jan 1, 2018 "Ode to Viceroy": Mac DeMarco's Influence on Interest in Viceroy Cigarettes Jan 1, 2018
  • 2017
    • Dec 6, 2017 A Monte Carlo Study on Methods for Handling Class Imbalance in Machine Learning Dec 6, 2017
    • Nov 28, 2017 Using Beta Regression to Better Model Norms in Political Psychology Nov 28, 2017
    • Sep 24, 2017 In Support of Open Seeding in the NBA Sep 24, 2017
    • Sep 22, 2017 The Importance of Blocks for NBA Defenses, Over Time Sep 22, 2017
    • Jul 13, 2017 Analyzing Rudy Gay Trades Using the CausalImpact Package Jul 13, 2017
    • Jun 6, 2017 Quantifying "Low-Brow" and "High-Brow" Films Jun 6, 2017
    • May 20, 2017 Sentiment Analysis of Kanye West's Discography May 20, 2017
    • Apr 18, 2017 Text Mining Kanye's Vocabulary Apr 18, 2017
    • Mar 18, 2017 Political Targeting Using k-means Clustering Mar 18, 2017
    • Mar 2, 2017 Predicting All-NBA Teams Mar 2, 2017

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