Every year, Hollywood spends millions chasing little gold men.
The Academy Award is the film industry’s highest honor — unless you’re the box office, in which case it’s a trivial pursuit.
IndieWire surveyed 89 years of winners and nominees, and discovered that in the last two decades, the top-grossing film corresponded with the Best Picture winner exactly once, with “The Lord of the Rings” in 2003.
(Before that, odds were substantially better; it happened more than 25% of the time.)Similarly, until recently almost every Best Picture winner was one of the year’s top 20 grossers; in the last seven years, only one winner can claim that bragging right: 2011 Best Picture winner “The King’s Speech,” which earned $135 million and a #18 slot.
Other placements range from #22 (2013 winner “Argo,” $136 million) to #92 (2017 winner “Moonlight,” $27.5 million).Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best PictureThis year has only a slim shot of improving those odds.
Among the nine 2018 Best Picture nominees,
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