oscar-db -- A database of film award winners

Goal

Construct a database of film award winners that can be used to predict oscar winners. The category we want to predict are:

• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress

Our main predictors will be the winners of similar awards. See below for a list of potential candidates.

To run the web scrapers, use the bash script munge/collect_data.sh. Note that you first need to download the oscar dataset from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/theacademy/academy-awards/data) and specify the path in munge/oscar_munge.R. Moreover, by definition, a web scraper is terribly non-robust. Therefore, you may have to change the code in the future.

To run the prediction analyses, use the bash script src/predict_oscar.sh.

Awards

Below is a list of awards that we would like to include in the database. The asterisk correspond to the ones that already have a web scraper.

Primary

• Golden Globes (*)
• Directors Guild of America Awards (*)
• Producers Guild of America Awards (*)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards (*)
• Writers Guild of America Awards
• British Academy Film Awards (*)

Secondary

• Critics' Choice Movie Awards
• Chicago Film Critics Association (*)
• Satellite Awards
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association (*)
• National Board Review (*)
• New York Film Critics Circle (*)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards (*)