And the Oscar goes to ... a movie most people have seen
by Jake Coyle
Mar 07, 2024
4 minutes
The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster.
After years of favoring smaller movies like “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland, ” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” — with just shy of $1 billion in tickets sold — is steam rolling toward the kind of big-movie dominance the Academy Awards hasn’t seen in two decades.
You have to go back to Ben Affleck’s “Argo” (2012) to find a best-picture winner that’s grossed more than $100 million domestically. Academy voters’ tastes have instead largely
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