Oscar Prediction 2020


Oscar winners can be hard to predict, but this document gives at least a few insights on not losing too much in the oscar bid.

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Table of contents

This work is organized in several section. Click the section that interests you for result and code. All the code files are available on my Github.

Web Scraping

I scraped some movie features (e.g. box office revenue, duration, budget) and other award results except for Oscar at IMDB website, and the critics review for each movie at Rotten Tomatoes website.

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Best Picture Prediction

I used several machine learning models to predict the Oscar Best Picture and selected XGBoost as the best classfier.

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Critics Review

Dive deep in texts: what does people say about this year's Best Picture: Parasite and how would reviews affect our Oscar prediction model.

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