February 21, 2013–Sure, everyone in the media is all abuzz about Oscar buzz within the industry. But now that the 85th Annual Academy Awards are just a few days away, what if the awards were chosen based on the public’s intrest via web searches? Yahoo! has released these fascinating stats of their users web searches in the last month, and the year in general (Helllloooo Jennifer Lawrence, you’ve had a hot year!). If the Oscars were selected based on the buzz of Yahoo! search engine users, it looks like it would be a landslide for Silver Linings Playbook. We’ll see how it turns out on Sunday!
Quick Facts:
Searches for Seth McFarlane are up 1644% in the past 7 days on Yahoo!. He is the top searched “seth” followed by Seth Green, Seth Meyers Seth Curry, and Seth Rogen.
Jennifer Lawrence is the biggest searched actor/actress of all nominated for an Oscar this year. Searches for Jennifer Lawrence in the past year on Yahoo! are 7 times higher than for Bradley Cooper.
Searches on Yahoo! For [when are the Oscars] are up 7081% this week.
The biggest buzzing movies in the past year on Yahoo! that are nominated are:
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Argo – searches for [argo dvd release date] are up 577%
- Lincoln
- Les Miserables
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Life of Pi
- Django Unchained – searches for [django toys] up 365%
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Amour
Top Searched Oscar Nominated Movie on Yahoo! (past 30 days):
- Silver Linings Playbook (57% of searches come from females)
- Argo (55% of searches come from females)
- Lincoln (59% of searches come from females)
- Les Miserables
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Life of Pi
- Django Unchained
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Amour
The biggest buzzing actors in the past year on Yahoo!, that are nominated are:
- Bradley Cooper
- Denzel Washington
- Robert De Niro
Top Searched Actor Nominated for an Oscar on Yahoo! (past 30 days):
- Bradley Cooper
- Christoph Waltz
- Hugh Jackman
- Denzel Washington
- Robert De Niro
- Daniel Day Lewis
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Alan Arkin
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
The biggest buzzing actresses in the past year on Yahoo!, that are nominated are:
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Anne Hathaway
- Amy Adams
Top Searched Actress Nominated for an Oscar on Yahoo! (past 30 days):
- Jennifer Lawrence (77% of searches come from males)
- Anne Hathaway
- Jessica Chastain
- Helen Hunt
- Amy Adams
- Sally Field
- Naomi Watts
- Quvenzhane Wallis
- Jackie Weaver
The biggest buzzing directors in the past year on Yahoo!, that are nominated are:
- Steven Spielberg
- Ang Lee
- Michael Haneke
- David O Russell
- Benh Zeitlin
