About the Oracle of Bacon
This is the most comprehensive version of the Kevin Bacon game on the
web. The object of the game is to start with any actor or actress who
has been in a movie and connect them to Kevin Bacon in the smallest
number of links possible. Two people are linked if they've
been in a movie together. We do not consider links through television
shows, made-for-tv movies, writers, producers, directors, etc. For
example, you might wonder how Mary Pickford can be connected to
Kevin Bacon. One answer is that:
Then we can count how many links were necessary and assign the actor
or actress a Bacon number. Bacon
numbers higher than 4 are very rare. In the example above, Mary Pickford has a
Bacon number of 3. The Oracle uses the data from TMDB and can give you
the shortest path from every actor and actress that can be connected
to Kevin Bacon.