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A Social Media Oscars Post-Mortem

by Eric Melin on March 9, 2010

Last week we spent some time discussing and tracking the 82nd Academy Awards. Now that the winners have their Oscars, and the smoke has cleared, we can stand back and look at our own study in social media discussion. Let’s do a quick recap – Last Tuesday we asked “Can online monitoring predict the Oscars?“, […]

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"Avatar" leads in volume, but "Basterds" has edge in average sentiment

by Eric Melin on March 5, 2010

If online buzz amounts to anything in this year’s Oscar race, James Cameron’s Avatar will win Best Picture on Sunday night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is obviously a closed voting body, but they are influenced by the media just like everybody else. The study started on Feb. 10, the day […]

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"Avatar" still leads, blogs make up biggest block of Best Picture talk

by Eric Melin on March 5, 2010

I’ve been writing about Spiral16’s ongoing 2010 Oscar study this week. We are measuring the power of online buzz about the Academy Awards and by Sunday night, we’ll know if the amount of online chatter for the top three contenders had any connection to the ceremony’s Best Picture winner. Two things about the way Spark […]

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"Avatar" and "Hurt Locker" lead in online Oscar traffic, "Basterds" a distant third

by Eric Melin on March 4, 2010

In yesterday’s blog, I went into detail about how we set up our 2010 Oscar prediction study. Using Spiral16’s Internet monitoring tool Spark, we aim to find out if there is any correlation between online chatter about the top three Best Picture candidates and the result of Sunday night’s awards ceremony. The overall percentage for […]

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On-camera Oscar Picks 2010 Episode 5

by Eric Melin on March 4, 2010

The Oscar Fix, Episode 5 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this first episode, Eric and JD predict the winner in the newly expanded 10 movie Best Picture race.

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Can online monitoring predict the Oscars?

by Eric Melin on March 3, 2010

With the Best Picture category at this year’s Academy Awards expanding to 10 nominees, this year’s race may be the least predictable in recent memory. Or not. Nobody really knows, since it is more than just the number of nominees that has changed. The Oscars are also employing a tiered voting system where Academy members […]

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On-camera Oscar Picks 2010 Episode 3

by Eric Melin on February 26, 2010

The Oscar Fix, Episode 3 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD from Scene-Stealers.com pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this third episode, Eric and JD predict the winners in Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress.

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On-camera Oscar Picks 2010 Episode 2

by Eric Melin on February 25, 2010

The Oscar Fix, Episode 2 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this episode, they predict the winners in Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Oh yeah, and lasers shoot the Oscar logo and it explodes! Don’t forget: Michael Bay is also a […]

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On-camera Oscar Picks 2010

by Eric Melin on February 24, 2010

The Oscar Fix, Episode 1 of 5: Back by popular demand! Eric and JD pick the winners for the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards. In this first episode, Eric and JD predict the winners in Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Top 10 Creature Transformations

by Eric Melin on February 9, 2010

In anticipation of this Friday’s release of “The Wolfman” remake, Scene-Stealers contributor Trevan McGee takes a look at the best onscreen creature transformations ever. If you have a Top 10 idea of your own, send it to eric@scene-stealers.com. Here’s Trevan: To be clear, actors –– the good ones at least –– transform themselves in every […]

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Top 10 Movie Montages

by Warren Cantrell on July 7, 2009

Warren J. Cantrell is so prolific, I’m beginning to think he keeps writing Top 10s so that no one else will get one in edgewise. So here you go: another Top 10 from the man who brought you Top 10 Reasons “Predator 2” is the Best of the Franchise and Top 10 Movies Ruined by […]

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Top 10 Product Placement in Movies

by Eric Melin on May 26, 2009

Elliot Kort and Abby Olcese are the Two Awesome Movie Nerds from Lawrence, KS. If you have a Top 10 list of your own, email me at eric@scene-stealers.com. Here are their Top 10 Favorite Product Placement Movies: These films are lumped together for one specific reason: there are too many brands represented to argue that […]

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Top 10 Fictitious Bands in Movies

by Eric Melin on December 19, 2008

Sometimes it’s because they need an original band to fit into their fictional story, sometimes it’s for parody, and sometimes it’s just because the filmmakers don’t want to pay to get somebody else’s song on the soundtrack. For whatever reason, there are a ton of made-up bands played by actors in the movies these days. […]

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Top 10 Most Overrated Movies

by Eric Melin on November 4, 2008

Obviously, we here at Scene-Stealers are obsessed with lists. Today we have a list from Lawrence, KS resident and sitegoer Blake Scott, a man who follows the cultural zeitgeist of movie lists closely and has now entered the hotly contested area of movie lists with one of his own, which is sure to ruffle a […]

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Top 10 Paul Newman Movies

by Eric Melin on September 30, 2008

Much has been written about Paul Newman since his passing this past weekend. Many of the newspaper biographies I’ve read focused on his love of racing, his charity work, and his compassion. Some even suggested that he loved those other things more than acting. Well, this Top 10 list is about his enormous contribution to […]

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