The Criterion Collection

The announcement of the Grand Prize winner in our Jeanne Dielman–Criterion Collection Cooking Video contest on YouTube has been delayed until next week to accommodate the schedule of our esteemed juror, director Chantal Akerman. But in the Audience Award category, your votes are in, the numbers have been crunched, and the winner of a $100 gift certificate is . . .

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We knew going in that we wouldn’t be able to pick the winner based solely on the highest average rating. After all, it wouldn’t make sense for a video with two five-star ratings to win over one with hundreds of ratings averaging 4.9, for example. To help us identify the winner, we consulted someone who handles statistical data all day long: Jay Jaffe, a professional analyst of baseball statistics who writes for Baseball Prospectus. He helped us create a weighted average rating using the number of votes cast for each video and the average star rating across all videos (3.08) as factors.

We used that method, and the runners-up, rounding out the YouTube community's top five, were:

I WANT POTATOES FOR DINNER

POTATO PROBLEMS: A MEMOIR

TO NEVER FORGET

THE ENGINEER MAKES POTATOES

Tune in next week to find out who will be playing Criterion Blu-ray discs on a new Sony PlayStation 3!