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Junior Ben Zauzmer's mathematical calculations predict that "Gravity" will take home the Oscar for best picture. “But I will say, if I had to guess, that’s going to be one of the wrong predictions,” he said. (Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer.)
If it were up to Ben Zauzmer '15, Disney’s computer-animated Frozen would take home the Oscar for best picture this year. But the film isn’t nominated, and he wouldn’t go with his own desires anyway — only his math.
For the past three years, the Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict winners at the Academy Awards. In his freshman year, Zauzmer, who hails from a suburb of Philadelphia, rightly predicted 15 winners out of the 20 categories he called, including Meryl Streep’s best-actress upset over Viola Davis.
“I knew then I was onto something,” he said.
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Topics: Applied Mathematics
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