With the Academy Awards just three days away, the Internets are being overworked by bloggers and moviegoers obsessed with staying up on the latest in Oscar news. I also wouldn't put it past awards season's prime navigator Harvey Weinstein to have a boiler room full of trained chimpanzees plugging in Jennifer Lawrence's name and "Silver Linings Playbook" into all the top search engines, such as Yahoo!, for instance. The web portal has collected some interesting data about Oscar-related searches, which I've culled below:
*Jennifer Lawrence is the most searched Oscar-nominated actor this year. Searches for Jennifer Lawrence in the past year on Yahoo! are seven times higher than for Bradley Cooper.
*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. No pressure, Rogen!
*The Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Movies 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 Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Actors 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
Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Actresses 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
- Jacki Weaver
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