Award Season Wheel
A mechanical watch face where months are gears and bars: prestige density and box-office momentum rotate through the calendar.
Awards and prestige attention cluster seasonally (especially late-year releases), creating a recurring calendar bias.
Question: Do awards cluster by release month?
Method: Aggregate award-winner counts and average box office by release month.
Prediction: Late-year months show higher award density than the rest of the calendar.
Test: Compare month distributions, then test whether “award-heavy” months also show higher commercial momentum.
A watch opens: the year is a mechanism, not a timeline.
Bars grow as the dial winds — months reveal where awards accumulate and where money follows.
Seasonality becomes unavoidable: a recurring bias you can see as rotation.
- imdb.films
- imdb.film_awards
- tmdb.movies
- award_season_wheel.json
Toggle Awards vs Box Office, then wind the crown: the calendar itself becomes the mechanism behind prestige.
The peak months are less “discovered” than engineered — a seasonal gravity well.