Patrick Goldstein Reveals True Barometer for Best Picture Winners

From the get-go this awards season, the race for the Academy Awards’ top prize of Best Picture has always been seen as coming down to a fast-talking Harvard student vs. a stuttering British King. Following Tuesday’s nominations, LA Times media columnist Patrick Goldstein is still of that opinion, but in pooh-poohing Variety‘s separate pronouncement that True Grit is a renewed Best Picture contender, he shares a fascinating predictive stat.

If there is one key indicator that provides the most accurate prediction of a film’s Best Picture chances, it is not how many nominations the film received, but whether it earned an all-important nomination for Best Editing.

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