A superfact on each of the six leading Academy Awards

Will all the leading BAFTA winners triumph again at the Oscars?

The six winners of the key awards at the BAFTAs - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress - are all clear favourites to win again at the Oscars. Will they all complete the double though? Here’s a key statistic for each category:

BEST PICTURE
Contenders:
Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Milk, The Reader, Frost/Nixon
Superfact:
The BAFTAs Best Film winner has only won at the Oscars in one of the last seven years, which doesn’t bode well for favourite Slumdog Millionaire.

BEST DIRECTOR
Contenders:
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Gus Van Sant (Milk), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
Superfact:

Posted: February 20th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may steal Best Picture

chickendinner fancies a massive shock to take place at the Oscars

It’s almost unthinkable that the BAFTAs and Oscars could produce identical winners in the six leading categories and for that reason chickendinner anticipates one major upset. The stats suggest that the favourite which is most ripe for a shock is Slumdog Millionaire and that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is still 8.6 on Betfair, could gazump it to the big prize:

» The BAFTAs Best Film has only gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars once in the last seven years.

» What makes that statistic even more worrying is that in three of the last four years, the Golden Globes and BAFTAs have produced the same winner, only for the Academy to choose another film.

» Benjamin Button received thirteen nominations at this year’s awards and seven of the previous ten that have received that number or more have won Best Picture.

Posted: February 20th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn | 1 Comment

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Slumdog Millionaire is favourite to land Best Picture

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chickendinner has been researching Oscar trends to help you make money on this year’s awards. Every weekday we’ll be passing on information on one of the six main categories, starting today with the Best Picture award:

Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle’s film is the favourite after being victorious at the Golden Globes but only three of the last eight Globes’ winners have triumphed at the Oscars. Slumdog is probably the most violent nominee though and the last five winners have all featured a healthy dose of brutality.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald novella is up for more awards than any other film at this year’s Oscars having received 13 nominations in total. It also made the most money of all the candidates by grossing over $100 million at the box office. However, no movie starring Brad Pitt has ever been victorious in this category.

Milk

Posted: January 27th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment