Since 1977, only five movies that led the box office the year of their release also won best picture at the Oscars. The public isn't going to see them in those kind of numbers. We'll still award a domestic drama about a man taking a cross country trip with his autistic brother. But they're not blockbusters anymore.
Huge hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water got nominated alongside Tár. In this episode of Into It, which is now available twice a week, Vulture’s Joe Reid explains the on-again, off-again relationship between the Oscars and the box office.
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