Even though we already know the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years, it is not particularly helpful when it comes to an important question of all time.
"Who's gonna win the Oscar?"
I thought of asking Deep Thought". Well, you know..
So I took this project to predict the 90th Academy Awards winners (2018) with the help of machine learning algorithms.
Click ahead to skip to see what's in my results box
The data used for the project are extracted/scraped from various public sites like wikipedia, IMDB, etc. You can read further about it in the extract folder.
The categories considered for the project are:
- Best Picture
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Data Cleaning
- Preliminary Analysis
The corresponding code and the jupyter notebook are provided in the analysis folder.
- Random Forest
- Support Vector Machines
- XGBoost
Viola! Here's my prediction for the 90th Academy Awards.
| Award | Prediction | Movie | Winners? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picture | The Shape of Water | The Shape of Water | ✔️ |
| Director | Guillermo Del Toro | The Shape of Water | ✔️ |
| Actor | Gary Oldman | Darkest Hour | ✔️ |
| Actress | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | ✔️ |
| Supporting Actor | Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | ✔️ |
| Supporting Actress | Allison Janney | I, Tonya | ✔️ |
Okay. Now, let's wait and see how my predictions turn out.
Updating the results on March 5,2018 at 7.00 PM (GMT)
Well, well, well... Looks like my predictions were spot-on. The model got all the 6 categories correctly.
Even though the methodology and algorithm used in this project are sufficient enough to get an accurate prediction in the major categories, it can be further expanded.
Additional Categories: Screenplay, Animated Film, Documentary Film and so on.
Additional Features: Chicago Critics Association Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Eddie Awards and so on.
Feel free to comment or make suggestions.