A look ahead to the frontrunners and big contenders at this year's Academy Awards

Though there is a clear frontrunner for Best Actress, recency bias still does have a little sway in who wins the Oscar.

You get an Oscar, you get an Oscar, every Best Picture nominee gets an Oscar? Not always. For most of the past decade when the Oscars used the sliding scale in Best Picture, most, if not all, of the Best Picture nominees every year walked away with at least one Oscar.