"I don't have to care about TV ratings. Like that's not my job," he says. "The Oscars were very big with me growing up partly because they introduced me to movies that I didn't really always hear about before" He hopes people just sort of accept the fact that the Oscars are the Oscars and people who love them are going to keep watching them.
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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