To celebrate the Oscars, YouTube ranks 'Best Picture' nominated movie trailers by views
The Oscars are this Sunday, and I have seen a grand total of zero of the films nominated for Best Picture. Isn't that a shame? This is because of a few factors -- the theater is too expensive nowadays, and I simply haven't had the time. Not to mention, none of this year's nominated films particularly interest me. Oh well.
To celebrate the much-anticipated award show, the folks over at Google have created a leaderboard for the nine Oscar "Best Picture" nominated movie trailers. The search giant explains that the rankings are comprised of views "including both studio channels and popular aggregators." The ranking is not at all surprising, with the overall most-watched film trailer getting a lot of hype lately.
"Our special-edition YouTube Movie Trailers Leaderboard ranks the top performing Best Picture nominee trailers, including both studio channels and popular aggregators. This year, the nine trailers are all blockbusters, racking up 3M hours of watch time. That's the equivalent of about 25M viewings of the Oscar-nominated animated short, 'Borrowed Time'," says Meredith Argeris, YouTube Marketing, Google.
Argeris also says, "While the best picture nominees span a variety of genres, superhero trailers are the most viewed according to new research on the movie space on YouTube from third party researcher Pixability. Superhero trailers have the highest average number of views per video, and superhero, animated, and science fiction trailers make up 74 of the top 100 most viewed trailers."
Google shares the ranking below. Yes, La La Land is at the top...
- La La Land
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Lion
- Fences
- Hidden Figures
- Manchester by the Sea
- Moonlight
- Hell or High Water
Which film do you think will win the Best Picture award? Tell me in the comments.
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