Oscar Stat Fun - No Sweeps in the Modern Era but can "EEAAO" change that?
by Nathaniel R
That complete sweep at the Spirits and SAG has us wondering now whether or not Everything Everywhere All At Once will win Best Picture but how many statues in total can actually win. We haven't seen a sweeper at the Oscars in a long long time. Yes some films have won all their categories but they aren't true "sweepers" i.e. thoroughly dominant movies. It would be technically accurate, for example, to say that CODA performed a clean sweep last season. It did win all of its categories but it wasn't a sweeper in any meaningful sense since it was only up for 3 Oscars.
In fact, a big sweep hasn't yet happened in the expanded Best Picture era! Can Everything Everywhere All At Once change that? Let's look at the history and stats after the jump...