Avatar the Way of Water and Wakanda Forever Are Nominated for Best Picture

"There's a whole other conversation about how the Academy reacts to these things and what lessons they take away from things," Griffin says. " Avatar was already the highest-grossing movie in history ... Hurt Locker when it won was the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner ever." It is possible that Wakanda Forever and Top Gun Maverick and Avatar the Way of Water are nominated for Best Picture this year, he adds.