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
Mrs. Ted Bliss Ford), " Galatea 2.2" (by Richard Powers, "Moo" (by Jane Smiley), and "The Tent of Orange Mist" (by Paul West). Elkin had earlier won in the same category for his 1982 novel "George Mills". Mrs. Ted Bliss Mrs. Ted Bliss is a 1995 novel by American author Stanley Elkin, published by Hyperion Books. It concerns the last eventful years in the life of an old widow. Elkin won the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category for this work. Mrs. Dorothy Bliss is an old woman in her early 80s living alone in a retirement community near