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It’s almost that time of year again, the time when Hollywood gets all dolled up to tell itself how wonderful it is.

Oscar time, in other words.

And it’s now also a tradition for Waxy.org’s Andy Baio to publish statistics centering on “the eternal war between the MPAA and Internet movie pirates”.

In 2009, of 26 nominated films, “an incredible 23 films are already available in DVD quality on nomination day, ripped either from the screeners or the retail DVDs,” he said, pointing out it was the highest percentage since he’d started tracking.

But this year, “The tide may be turning,” says Baio.

“There’s still a month out before the Academy Awards, but so far, fewer Oscar screeners leaked online this year — only 14 out of 34 nominated films, the lowest percentage ever. And they’re taking twice as long to leak — a median 21 days after theatrical release, up from 11 days the previous year,” he says, going on >>>

It’s not limited to screeners, either. Camcorder and telesync releases dropped this year. Even the percentage of retail DVD rips has dropped, though this will likely shift before the broadcast. In the chart below, you can see the percentage of films that were released in each format. (For example, 21% of this year’s films had a cam release and 44% had a retail DVD leak.)

And the R5 DVD releases that dominated previous year’s Oscars is now mostly dead. I’m guessing the studios are moving away from the early distribution of R5 DVDs entirely.

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