Academy Nominees aren't Box Office Hits. Do Oscars Still Matter?
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Oscars Week in America, and Hollywood's biggest night of the year will take place this Sunday. |
| 0:06.1 | The Academy Award. |
| 0:07.3 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:08.3 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:09.5 | Parasite. |
| 0:12.1 | Another long season of campaigning to sway Academy voters before the ceremony has come and gone. |
| 0:17.6 | But have audiences given up on the movies that get all the awards? |
| 0:22.6 | Sure, there were nominations for box office smashes, like Avatar, The Way of Water, |
| 0:27.0 | which is now one of the highest grossing movies of all time. |
| 0:29.7 | You're Tocoon. |
| 0:32.8 | And last summer's Top Gun Maverick was another box office smash that got a nomination. |
| 0:37.1 | In 14, against fifth-gen fighters. It's not the plane. last summer's top gun Maverick was another box office smash that got a nomination. |
| 0:42.6 | An N.14 against fifth-gen fighters. It's not the plane. It's the pilot. |
| 0:48.8 | But for the most part, one after another critically acclaimed movies like Tar with Kate Blanchet. |
| 0:56.0 | Time is the essential piece of interpretation. Or banshees of Inesirian with Colin Farrell. Stop running away from me like some fool of a moody schoolchild. |
| 0:59.0 | And even the fableman from box office King Steven Spielberg himself. |
| 1:03.0 | Family art. |
| 1:05.0 | It'll tear you into. |
| 1:07.0 | Mostly failed to find an audience big enough to justify their cost. |
| 1:17.8 | It's not a new phenomenon, of course, but in an era where Hollywood's still trying to bring crowds back to in-person screenings, |
| 1:22.1 | is handing out awards to films that few people have seen a smart thing? |
| 1:27.7 | I'm Gustavo Ariano. |
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