The academy has been criticized in the last few years for being out of touch with regular moviegoers. Independent films that wider audiences barely see are favored over the year’s biggest commercial successes. The Oscars infamously tried to address this issue last year by creating a short-lived ‘best popular film’ category, which was rightly greeted with jeers.
Even with “Black Panther” becoming the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the problem remains prevalent. Indeed, with Alfonso Cuaron‘s “Roma” predicted to take the top prize on February 24, this issue is likely to continue for another year.
Visme, a data visualization tool, have handily illustrated this issue with a graphic comparing the domestic gross of the academy’s Best Picture winners with the highest-grossing film of the year since the turn of the century.
Since 2000, Best Picture has gone to the biggest box office hit of the year just once.
Even with “Black Panther” becoming the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the problem remains prevalent. Indeed, with Alfonso Cuaron‘s “Roma” predicted to take the top prize on February 24, this issue is likely to continue for another year.
Visme, a data visualization tool, have handily illustrated this issue with a graphic comparing the domestic gross of the academy’s Best Picture winners with the highest-grossing film of the year since the turn of the century.
Since 2000, Best Picture has gone to the biggest box office hit of the year just once.
- 2/23/2019
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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