Here's some fun figures to bring up at this year's bake-off. Based on the past ten years of data, we can say that if your title contains any of these items:

• "of the"

• "of"

• "the"

• ":"

• or a number

...you have a very slim chance of winning. In fact, your chance of winning with a number in the title is actually zero. (Again, based on the past ten years of data.)

I collected the titles of every movie shortlisted for a VFX Oscar, as well as the eventual noms and winners, and I go into it at pseudo-length in the video below. (I've also charted all of this on a spreadsheet for your perusal, if you care, which you don't.)

Here's a few quick highlights from all that data-mining:

• Read this slowly, because it's amazing: there has been a feud between Captain America and Apes and Transformers and X-Men, where none of them won, twice.

• For the sixteen "something of the something" movies that have played the bake-off in the past decade, one has won. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Eight years ago. So stop it.

• If there's a colon in your title... you have a 4% chance. Good luck.

Anyway. The data is all in the spreadsheet, but I talk my way through most of it in the video below if you're into that sort of thing.

Anyway. I've been making noises about collecting this data for years, and now I've done it, so my soul is now free to move onto the next plane or whatever.