Country of Birth and Age when Awarded for Best Actor/Actress Winners
Best Actor
Instruction
Click on a circle to select the group denoted by the circle. Hovering over an actor or actress' name will show basic information about the individual. Clicking on an actor or actress' name will open the IMDB page.
Country of Birth
Most winners of Best Actor and Best Actress awards were born in the United States of America.
Age Range
Most Oscar awards are given to actors and actress that are between 20 and 40.
Best Actress
Demographics of Oscar Winners from 1927 to 2014
Oscar Best Picture Winners
A description of the movie. Please click on the circle next to the genre names to show movies that won the Oscar Best Picture Award for the genre. Clicking on a movie name will show the movie overview here. The circle to the left of the movie name denote move profit; the closer to the movie the higher the profit (1px is $10,000,000). Hovering over the circle shows the actual profit amount.
Actors and actress nominees and winners over the years
Besides different awards from various cinematogrophy academia, people's opinion is also based on crowdsourcing and critics' ratings. One of the biggest datasource—Internet Movie Database (IMDb), where users streamline content online: everything from tryvia to reviews. So it is interesting to see how high was rating for nominees and winners according to IMDb. Is academia's choices synched with audience's?
1928
Billy Wilder
1960 (33rd) Academy Awards
Category: Directing
Film: The Apartment
Authors: Anthony Ngo, Daniel Hsu, Olga Khvan, Xioashi Dai
Data sources:Awards Oscars Database
The movies dataset, Kaggle
IMDB dataset