Oscar bait make it eligible for the awards. However, it was not nominated for any. Second and third were "", the 2003 Best Picture winner, and "The People vs. Larry Flynt", released in 1996. At the low end, as the movie in that period which least qualified as Oscar bait, was the 2006 remake of "When a Stranger Calls", which indeed was not nominated for any Oscars. It was followed by 2009's "Hotel for Dogs" and "", from 2004. Rossman and Schilke used their data to develop an algorithm that could predict how many Oscar nominations a film would get, based on
Oscar A. Trippet Oscar A. Trippet Oscar A. Trippet (March 6, 1856 – July 15, 1923) was a United States federal judge. Oscar A. Trippet was born on March 6, 1856 in Princeton, Indiana. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law. He was in private practice in Princeton, Indiana from 1879 to 1887, then in San Diego, California until 1901, and then in Los Angeles, California until 1915. He was a member of the Indiana State Senate in 1886. He served as president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association in 1911. On March 2, 1915, he was nominated by President