[a fool in paradise]

"If made 40 years ago, it would have been a leading Oscar contender and a huge hit, whereas today it’s a bit “meh” in both categories"

Best Picture (1975 Oscar nominations for films from 1974)
The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola
Chinatown - Robert Evans
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny - Marvin Worth
The Towering Inferno - Irwin Allen

Highest-grossing films of 1974
1. Blazing Saddles Warner Bros. $119,500,000
2. The Towering Inferno 20th Century Fox / Warner Bros. $116,000,000
3. The Trial of Billy Jack Warner Bros. $89,000,000
4. Young Frankenstein 20th Century Fox $86,273,333
5. Earthquake Universal Pictures $79,666,653
6. The Godfather Part II Paramount Pictures $47,542,841
7. Airport 1975 Universal Pictures $47,285,152
8. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Sunn Classic Pictures $45,411,063
9. The Longest Yard Paramount Pictures $43,008,075
10. Benji Mulberry Square Releasing $39,552,000

[Regulator]

Yeah...Mel Brooks had his two best in the same year

Convert the grosses to 2014 dollars....its huge