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#OscarNoms

Yesterday Oscar nominations were announced. You can check the nominations from the official website. I could download close to 150K tweets but fewer than 1/6th were original and rest were retweets.

There should be no surprise that the word "best" appears so many times. It must have been used to declare the nominations such as "best film", "best actor", etc. What surprised me the most was that people were not talking much about specific nominations. There were so many generic words - amazing, nominees, nominated, actor, beautiful, etc. However, if you look closely some of the generic words are coming from the movie titles! For example, "mad" is from "Mad Max".

 Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for The Revenant and his name in bits "leo", "dicaprio" shows up a few times. His movie name also shows up frequently. Surprisingly "Powerball" showed up a lot meaning that this was piggybacking the popular hashtag. Ala Rickman shows up too, which is likely because of his death.
 
The overall sentiment is neutral. Between positive and negative, it's highly positive.
 

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