Altogether, that year s Best Picture nominees earned more than $750 million at North American box offices, and another $1.3 billion overseas, much of it after the nominations were announced.
This year, with cinemas mostly closed, and audiences skittish about crowds, there s been hardly any business, let alone a bounce. Front-runner
Nomadland has taken in a snappy $2.1 million in the U.S. The year s prestige blockbuster,
In fact, if you take all eight of the Best Picture nominees and combine their
worldwide earnings, the total comes to barely $35 million. That would be an unimpressive figure for one nominee in a normal year.
The concern for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is that low box office numbers generally translate into low telecast ratings. Viewers of awards shows like to have a rooting interest in the outcome, but audiences haven t seen this year s nominees, and the AMPAS worries they simply won t tune in.
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Oscar s box-office bounce this year is a resounding thud.
Most awards seasons find film fans seeking out Best Picture nominees in the run-up to the Academy Awards telecast, with the eventual winner reaping millions of additional dollars post-telecast.
Last year, the literary classic
1917, and the World War II satire
Jojo Rabbitall saw big bounces at the box office prior to the telecast. And
Parasite, the first foreign language film to win Best Picture, expanded its theatrical run five-fold after the nominations.
Altogether, that year s Best Picture nominees earned more than $750 million at North American box offices, and another $1.3 billion overseas, much of it after the nominations were announced.
Who votes for the Oscars, and how does it work?
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HOLLYWOOD, United States, April 24, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The ballots are all in!
Millions of television viewers around the globe will tune in Sunday to watch the Oscars, the glitziest night in showbiz, but most don’t know how the winners are chosen.
Answer: more than 9,300 people in the entertainment industry select the honorees. The number is a record high. But who are they and how did they get to become voters?
Here is a look at the complex, sometimes confounding process that leads to the winners of the 23 Academy Awards:
– Who votes? –