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The producers of the Oscars telecast always breathe easier when there are a couple of major blockbusters in the best picture race, knowing audiences are more likely to tune in to the ceremony if they\u2019ve actually seen the films. This year\u2019s lineup offers only partial assurance. <\/p>\n
The 10 films nominated for best picture have earned a combined $662 million at the domestic box office and about $1.4 billion worldwide, according to current theatrical grosses \u2014 a drop of roughly 18% from last year\u2019s global box-office total.<\/a> <\/p>\n In 2025, the best picture slate brought in about $1.7 billion globally, buoyed by box-office juggernauts \u201cWicked\u201d and \u201cDune: Part Two.\u201d The year before that, the nominees reached $2.7 billion worldwide, driven largely by the \u201cBarbenheimer\u201d phenomenon.<\/p>\n Go back one year further, and the contrast becomes even starker. The 2023 best picture field set a modern high-water mark<\/a> of $4.4 billion worldwide, powered by the mega-hits \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water.\u201d This year\u2019s slate represents a precipitous 68% drop from that peak.<\/p>\n In raw commercial terms, this marks the most modest showing for a best picture field since the pandemic-disrupted 2022 Oscars<\/a>, when theatrical attendance had yet to recover and only one nominee cleared the $100 million-mark worldwide.<\/p>\n As in recent seasons, much of the box office is concentrated among a small number of films. Three nominees \u2014 Apple\u2019s \u201cF1\u201d and Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cSinners\u201d and \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d \u2014 account for roughly $1.21 billion worldwide, or about 87% of the slate\u2019s total global box office. \u201cF1\u201d is the largest contributor, with $631.7 million worldwide, giving this year\u2019s field its clearest commercial anchor. \u201cSinners\u201d follows with about $368 million globally, while \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d added roughly $206 million worldwide. <\/p>\n Beyond those three titles, the drop-off is steep. \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d the slate\u2019s next-highest earner, brought in just under $95 million worldwide. Several films, including \u201cBugonia,\u201d \u201cHamnet\u201d and \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d played primarily to art-house audiences. Two nominees \u2014 \u201cFrankenstein\u201d and \u201cTrain Dreams\u201d \u2014 are Netflix releases that received only minimal theatrical exposure. Others, such as Brazil\u2019s political thriller \u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d and the Iranian drama \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d earned most of their revenue outside the United States, giving the slate a pronounced international flavor while limiting its domestic haul.<\/p>\n Two high-profile sequels that could have significantly lifted this year\u2019s totals \u2014 \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d and \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d \u2014 failed to make the cut with Oscar voters.<\/p>\n Even as the box-office profile of the best picture field has become more modest, Oscar ratings have shown signs of stabilizing. Last year\u2019s telecast averaged 19.7 million viewers<\/a> across ABC and Hulu, a slight increase from the previous year, according to Nielsen data. The modest uptick was aided in part by expanded streaming availability (which will increase once the show starts streaming on YouTube in 2029<\/a>), suggesting that the relationship between Oscar ratings and box-office muscle has become less direct than it once was. Even so, viewership remains far below its peak, when more than 55 million people tuned in to watch \u201cTitanic\u201d win best picture in 1998.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The producers of the Oscars telecast always breathe easier when there are a couple of major blockbusters in the best picture race, knowing audiences are more likely to tune in to the ceremony if they\u2019ve actually seen the films. This year\u2019s lineup offers only partial assurance. 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