The UCLA’s California Center for Population Research has released a statistical study of the strongest predictors for getting an Oscar nomination. Some predictors are obvious, such as that dramas and big distributors are favored. Others are more surprising:

Actresses, meanwhile, proved more than twice as likely to be nominated as actors for any given performance, making being female the study’s third strongest predictor of a nomination, the authors say.

Warning: the article (and maybe the study) does the usual correlation/causation blurring. (thx, lorelei)