50 Years of Oscar Inconsistency: The Math

Hells yeah! The numbers time. As I already said in the introduction, I know that no one cares about how I've compiled my list of Oscar snubs, but I've wasted so much time on this project, that I need the amount of generated content to justify it.

So, this is how I figured my Oscar self-snubs.

The most "valuable" nominations (i.e. Nominations that the best Picture winner also has) are as follows...

• Directing (49 of the last 50 winners)
• Screenplay (48 of 50)
• Editing (44 of 50)
• Lead Acting (41 of 50)
• Supporting Acting (36 of 50)
• Score (30 of 50)
• Sound Mixing (33 of 50)
• Cinematography (33 of 50)
• Production Design (27 of 50) - Called Art Direction until this past year
• Costume (24 of 50)
• Makeup (10 of 30) - Became a competitive category in 1982
• Sound Editing (6 of 30) - Became a competitive category in 1982
• Song (6 of 50)
•  Visual Effects (4 of 35) - Became a competitive category in 1982

Additionally, multiples of any nomination (Lead or Supporting Actor/Actress or Song) halves in value with each additional nomination.

In case you are confused, that means a Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Song nomination is still not as valuable as a Directing nomination, for example. See, it's not all that complex. Most of the time spent was in compiling the data.