The Academy Awards, commonly known as Oscars, are presented each year in Beverly Hills, California, U.S.,
to acknowledge achievement in the film industry. Traditionally, moives needed to do a one-week theatrical run
in the Los Angeles area in order to qualify for the Oscars. However, the Academy board of governors
decided that, for the first time and only for 2020, movies without a theatrical run would qualify for the
Academy Awards.
Such a change led Netflix to earn 24 nominations for the Academy Awards, Disney to earn 23 nominations,
and Sony to earn 20 nominations. The studio with the most nominations is for the first time a streaming service.
Though a change in eligibility is only for 2020, according to The Guardian, streaming providers such as Netflix
and Amazon have been spending millions into Oscars campaigns for their original films by concurrently releasing
films in theaters and on its streaming platform.
In this regard, the intended audience includes content related team at streaming providers, directors, and
screenwriters. This visualisation aims to provide the audience with the opportunity to explore several factors
including IMDb score of movies that won the Academy Awards from 1930 to 2014.
To navigate through the visualisations, click on the link in the top right corner of the screen.
Visualisations:
- Vis1: Bar chart shows the number of awards won and
the mean IMDb score across country
- Vis2: Boxplot shows IMDb score across Academy Award
- Vis3: Heatmap shows film genres across year
- Vis4: Violin plot with jitter shows the IMDb score and
runtime across genre
Data Sources:
- Academy Awards Winners from 1930 to 2014
- IMDb movies dataset