kirmirmatha: Facebook Buzz About 'Best Picture' Oscar Nominees Is Way Up This Year

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Facebook Buzz About 'Best Picture' Oscar Nominees Is Way Up This Year

Brian Anthony Hernandez2013-02-24 15:18:34 UTC

The nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders have sparked a high volume of chatter from Facebook users ? 20 times higher so far than last year, according to data Facebook and ABC shared with Mashable. Meanwhile, mentions of "Oscars" is three times higher.

And while Lincoln and Argo are the heavy favorites to take home the Best Picture statuette, the official fan pages for those two movies don't have the most Likes on Facebook.

Most-Liked Best Picture Nominees

1. Les Mis?rables: 1,298,730 Likes
2. Django Unchained: 879,079 Likes
3. Life of Pi: 567,998 Likes
4. Lincoln: 298,290 Likes
5. Argo: 226,018 Likes
6. Silver Linings Playbook: 173,752 Likes
7. Zero Dark Thirty: 154,943 Likes
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild: 58,105 Likes
9. Amour: 19,692 Likes

Most-Discussed Best Picture Nominees

But the most-Liked flicks aren't necessarily the most-discussed.

Gender Split for Best Picture Nominees

Men overwhelmingly like Zero Dark Thirty. The movie?s fan base on Facebook skews 78 percent male versus 22 percent female.
Women prefer Les Miserables and Silver Linings Playbook. These movies tied in the gender split, with 73 percent female fans versus 27 percent male fans.

Age Split for Best Picture Nominees

To see what movie fans who Liked a specific Best Picture nominee also likes on Facebook, check out the gallery above. For example, people who Liked Zero Dark Thirty also Liked Radiohead, the Rolling Stones and Mark Wahlberg.

For more social media commentary about the Oscars, tune into "Backstage Pass" starting at 4 p.m. PT at Oscar.com or on the Oscars app. Mashable's entertainment reporter Brian Anthony Hernandez is among the hosts who will provide behind-the-scenes facts and online analysis from the red carpet and in the winners' photo room.

Hernandez is part of the the first-ever Red Carpet Digital Lounge along with by Radio Disney?s Jake Whetter and PopSugar's Allison McNamara.

Other "Backstage Pass" hosts include The View?s Sherri Shepherd, TV personality Cameron Mathison, Modern Family?s Rico Rodriquez, Entertainment Weekly?s Jess Cagle, PEOPLE?s Peter Castro.