Posted on 01/03/2018 9:27:46 AM PST by Simon Green
Perhaps if the Acadamy Awards picked Best Pictures that anyone actually saw, they'd be more relevant. Here's a list of the box office rankings of the winner of the Best Picture awardvfor the last ten years:
2016 Moonlight: #101
2015 Spotlight: #62
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62
2012 Argo: #22
2011 The Artist: #71
2010 The King's Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36
To get to a year in which a Best Picture winner cracked the Top 10, you have to go back to 2003's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".
These may well be good films. I couldn't say, as I haven't seen a single one of them.
Great movie depressing ending.
Same here, I liked “The King’ s Speech” and didn’t even see any of the others. The day is long gone when I cared what anyone in Hollyweird has to say about what qualifies as a good film. They have lost me as an audience, and I used to think of myself as a lover of movies.
I liked Slumdog Millionairee. never heard of the rest.
I saw The Artist twice during its first run. Just a very fun movie without any political/liberal crap.
RE: Not a single “Best Picture” winner of the last 10 years has been a hit film.
DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY “HIT”.
Most of these films actually made money accounting for the budget used to make the film
SOURCE: Wikipedia
BOX OFFICE:
1) Moonlight
Budget $4 million
Box office $65 million
2. Spotlight
Budget $20 million
Box office $92.2 million
3. Birdman
Budget $16.5-18 million
Box office $103.2 million
4. 12 Years a Slave
Budget $17.1 million
Box office $187.7 million
5. Argo
Budget $44.5 million
Box office $232.3 million
6. The Artist
Budget $15 million
Box office $133.4 million
7. The King’s Speech
Budget $15 million
Box office $414.2 million
8. Hurt Locker
Budget $15 million
Box office $49.2 million
9. Slumdog Millionaire
Budget $15 million
Box office $377.9 million
10. No Country for Old Men
NO BUDGET DATA
By money made, I would say that most of the Oscar Best Picture winners the past 10 years were hit films.
Having watched every Coen Brothers movie, I believe that they are basically conservatives, but are very, very subtle about it.
They are first and foremost story tellers and entertainers. They have no interest in selling or promoting an ideology, which is perfectly fine with me.
Guilty-I loved it. I’m a Cormac McCarthy fan. I loved the book first.
I also liked The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, so maybe I enjoy tough men being chased through the Southwest and Mexico...and Tommy Lee Jones movies.
translation: Yinz ingoramuses who voted for Trump are too STOOOOOOPID to know a good picture when you see one.
Keep in mind that most movies get Oscar attention in the last couple of weeks of the year.
For a movie released on Christmas Day (the last day you can be released and be considered for an Academy Award) to crack the top ten movie for the year is a real special circumstance.
I agree that most of the stuff lately hasn’t been great, but it doesn’t mean they are not “blockbusters.”
If you have to ask...probably not.
Very well done. One the few movies I will watch again.
Are you suggesting that the award is given to the top leftist agenda item of the day and NOT to films people actually want to see?
Saw it, didn’t like it all that much — too dark and violent for my taste, and the ending was especially disappointing. Best I can describe it is an old western mixed with a chase movie, with a lot of plot twists. Plenty of gunplay and explosions. Not to spoil it, but the main antagonist, in addition to his role as villain, functions as a punishing angel, paying back the other characters for their various sins. Call me old fashioned or simple but I prefer movies with clearly defined “good guys” and “bad guys”, with the good guys winning in the end.
We have never seen nor will we see any of this trash posing as movies:
2016 Moonlight: #101
2015 Spotlight: #62
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62
2012 Argo: #22
2011 The Artist: #71
2010 The King’s Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36
We cut our Comcast Cable last June when our monthly cost exceeded $250. We didn’t watch any of the movie channels, yet our monthly bill paid for them. We are saving about $125 per month, and Comcast apparently just came up with another big price increase. Relatives and friends, who didn’t cut their cable, are asking me how to cut off Comcast after their Jan 2018 price increase.
In over a half of year since we cut our cable, we have not watched a single tv movie nor gone to one.
My wife is not a prude, but when the opening sentence of a movie and basically every sentence afterwards contains the “F” word, she is ready to leave the theater or turn off that movie.
If by “hit” you mean top-grossing, I’m glad that’s not a qualification. I don’t care about the Oscars, but I’m glad top-grossing films like “Big Daddy” and “There’s Something About Mary” weren’t up for Best Picture.
I saw the following:
2012 Argo: #22
2010 The King’s Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionaire: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36
I would say the best of these was No Country for old Men. The King’s Speech had a great performance by the actors that portrayed King George and his speech therapist but I would not say it was a great movie. Argo and Slumdog were both good movies not great. The Hurt Locker was so/so.
I just watched a good movie last night with Jeremy Renner called Wind River I would recommend.
I still say “The Lives of Others” blows away any recent Academy Award winning movie.
We’ve attended about three movies in the past ten years. The only name I remember is The Blindside, which I enjoyed. The other two, not memorable.
The only one I saw was “The Hurt Locker,” and I really liked it.
The King’s Speech made $414 million worldwide (on a budget of $15 million).
Slumdog Millionaire made $378 million worldwide (on a budget of $15 million).
Argo made $232 million worldwide (on a budget of $44 million).
Even Moonlight made $65 million worldwide (on a budget of $4 million).
Yes, movies like Marley and Me, The Angry Birds Movie, 21 Jump Street, and Little Fockers all were “hit films” that made more money than the Oscar winners in their respective years. Yet I don’t think that made them deserving of an Academy Award.
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