And the most liberal Oscars movie is…

But what if you could predict the ideological bent of a film by looking at the politics of the people who made them?

Campaign donations, which provide a behind-the-curtain peek at the political views of even the most private celebrities, offer a trove of data to make that possible.

Analysts from Crowdpac, a group that compiles campaign finance data, examined records of actors, producers, directors and crew members who worked on this year’s Oscar-nominated films in search of a correlation between the message of their film and the political views of their creators.

Crowdpac assigned each person a score based on their donor history, ranking them from most liberal to most conservative. The analysts then tallied an average score for each Best Picture-nominated movie.

Grand Budapest Hotel – 8.4L (6 donors – $23,500)

Theory of Everything – 6.3L (1 donor – $19,281)

American Sniper – 3.1L (9 donors – $55,959)

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