Nate Silver, America’s math wizard has figured out who’s going to win the Oscars so you don’t need to watch it this Sunday to find out the results. Then again, it’s always fun to watch the Oscars. It will be aired this Sunday on ABC live. Nate’s predictions: Slumdog Millionaire wins big time: both Best Picture and Best Director. As for the lead Actor, Lead Actress and Best Supporting, we’ll give you the spoilers after the jump…

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get your Oscar predictions after the jump…

In case you don’t have a clue who’s Nate, man you got to watch the news more often! He predicted the 2008 Presidential Election results and inevitably he doesn’t use a crystal ball. These statisticians based their analysis on a lot of data including past Oscar results.

More of Nate’s Oscar Predictions for NY magazine:

Lead Actor will go to Mickey Rourke. Lead Actress: Kate Winslet.
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger. Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson

Let’s see if Mr. Wizard gets them all right again! My bet is he will! What do you think?

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