Not a single "Best Picture" winner of the last 10 years has been a hit film.

01/03/18

[Simon Green]

Perhaps if the Acadamy Awards picked Best Pictures that anyone actually saw, they'd be more relevant. Here's a list of the box office rankings of the winner of the Best Picture awardvfor the last ten years:

2016 Moonlight: #101
2015 Spotlight: #62
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62
2012 Argo: #22
2011 The Artist: #71
2010 The King's Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36

To get to a year in which a Best Picture winner cracked the Top 10, you have to go back to 2003's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".

These may well be good films. I couldn't say, as I haven't seen a single one of them.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Well just wait, be patient. I heard they are making a movie of Hillarys book "What happened" and that is bound to be a hit. They said Margot Robbie is playing Hillary, I can see why as they are both blonde and have blue eyes and supposedly Robert Redford will play Trump.

Margot Robbie as Hillary Clinton

Robert Redford as Donald J. Trump

Oh but first they are coming out with the movie "Mrs. Clinton" which will be starring Meryl STreep as Hillary

[Neoliberalnot]

That’s the only one I’ve seen. It was pretty good. Most of these movies can be streamed in a year to two. I don’t donate to Homowood if I can avoid it.

[Baynative]

Academy awards are as meaningless and Pulitzer Prizes, Nobel Prizes, Participation Trophies, Government Shutdowns and Contempt of Congress Citations.

[Loud Mime]

No Country for Old Men had a gunfight in a Texas town without ONE other person getting involved. That pneumatic gadget had NO recoil, rigggghhhht. Half the time it should have taken his own hand off. Lots of stupid people and scenes in that movie.

But the ending, where the killer pays off kids to let him go, was a sad remark on society.

[Simon Green]

I'm defining it as breaking the top 10 box office of that year. I'm looking at how popular these films are, not how profitable they are based upon return on investment.

By the latter method, a film with a $100K budget that makes $10 million would be the biggest hit of the year. :-)

[Neoliberalnot]

Badger, I thought you were a big fan of butt crack mounting. Did you see that one. 🙃

[Steve_Seattle]

"My wife is not a prude, but when the opening sentence of a movie and basically every sentence afterwards contains the “F” word, she is ready to leave the theater or turn off that movie."

Then make sure you avoid "Three Billboards Outside . . . ". Pretty much every sentence in the movie has one or two expletives, including exchanges between parents and children. Cops are portrayed as mostly dumb, violent, and racist, there's a gratuitous swipe at the Catholic Church (comparing it to a street gang), and sadistic acts of criminality are winked at.

[Rummyfan]

Is No Country For Old Men worthy of watching?

Yes definitely, for Tommy Lee Jones' performance alone. Like most Cormac McCarthy stories, it is decidedly dark.

[dfwgator]

The one thing I learned from No Country From Old Men.....when you see a guy carrying around a Cattle Gun.....RUN!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

YES, it’s one of the greatest movies I ever seen, I’ve seen it at least 4 times. Women hate it though because it’s violent as hell, at least in the beginning. But the plot is utterly crazy. It’s about a guy who is out hunting pornghorns in the Texas desert and by accident he runs across a drug deal gone bad and he finds, everyone dead and a million bucks of drug money left behind and he takes the money and the rest of the movie is about a psychopath chasing him down to get it back, it’s intense as hell.

[Kickass Conservative]

You haven’t seen “No Country for Old Men”?

If you do, don’t watch the butchered version on regular TV.

[ssaftler]

Saw most of them. My opinion of those I did see:

• 2015 Spotlight: #62 - Being a native Bostonian was probably the sole reason to see it. Not bad, but I think "Ray Donovan" has done as much for the scandal as this.
• 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78 - One word: HUH? Pure Hollyweird tripe from start to finish, whatever that finish was.
• 2013 12 Years a Slave: #62 - Okay, but overblown
• 2012 Argo: #22 - This one was actually pretty good, even if Ben Affleck starred in it. John Goodman and Alan Arkin were the saving graces
• 2011 The Artist: #71 - Meh!
• 2010 The King's Speech: #18 - Another in the quite good category. They didn't muck with the actual story much
• 2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16 - I guess it was okay. Capitalizing on the "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" craze of the time, but the ending was another of those "huh?" things

That's one man's opinion. You can agree or disagree. Just don't get disagreeable about it.

[BipolarBob]

when you see a guy carrying around a Cattle Gun.

Now I want you to stand right here. Just stand still. This won't hurt a bit.

[Slyfox]

I have been watching me some Turner Classic Movies.

Those old movies beat the hell out of anything they are making today.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

[notdownwidems]

Having watched every Coen Brothers movie, I believe that they are basically conservatives, but are very, very subtle about it.

Shut the f#^#ck up Donnie!

[x]

Oh but first they are coming out with the movie "Mrs. Clinton" which will be starring Meryl STreep as Hillary

Fake news.

[Yaelle]

I’ve only seen Spotlight (well done), Birdman (weird, well done), Argo (good story, but Ben affleck), and Slumdog Millionaire (best one in the bunch I’ve seen, and difficult to watch).

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks. Sounds right up my alley.

[morphing libertarian]

some of these are adult films and I don’t mean in a sexual sense. Hurt Locker, Birdman, Kings Speech, moonlight. for example. I have seen three of these and consider them excellent films.

Kids drive the box office. kids and action films. They repeat view films. That gets a film over 500 million and some over a billion.

Even the academy is not stupid enough to ignore adult movies in favor of explosion and car chases, and buddy movies where one is whacky and the other serious and food looking.