[OC] The Most Common Oscar Wins (and the Defunct Categories that Time Forgot), 1928-Present

Hey r/dataisbeautiful,
I’ve always been fascinated by the long history of the Academy Awards and wanted to visualize which categories have stood the test of time. I compiled a public dataset of all winners since 1928 to explore the patterns.
The final visualization reveals a few cool stories: the dominance of the “Honorary Award,” the consistent importance of the core acting/directing/writing awards, and a “graveyard” of forgotten categories like “Dance Direction” at the very bottom.

**A note on the process:**
This visualization was created using a tool I’m building called Datum Fuse, which uses AI to automate chart generation from raw data. The goal was to see if the AI could produce a clean, sorted, and aesthetically pleasing chart with minimal intervention.

This is part of our free public beta, and I’d be grateful for any feedback on the design choices (color scale, sorting, etc.) from this expert community.

**Data Source:** https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/unanimad/the-oscar-award?resource=download&select=the_oscar_award.csv
**Tool:** Datum Fuse (https://www.datumfuse.ai)

There’s something amiss. There have been 97 winners for Best Actress and Best Actor.