10 Lowest-Grossing Movies to Win an Oscar for Best Picture
The highest-grossing Best Picture nominee for 2016 made four times less money than the top-grossing film of the year. Oscar's biggest winners are often film's smallest earners.
You can cry about the elites all you'd like, but the entire point of the Academy Awards is to reward the elite--and the biggest superhero films of the year aren't among them. This year's eight nominees for Best Picture have averaged just under $72 million per film. That ranges from nearly $132 million for Hidden Figures to about $20.4 million for Moonlight. Compare that to the five-film field for Best Visual Effects and its more than $246 million average. In that equation, Disney's continuation of the highly lucrative Star Wars franchise, Rogue One and its $527.2 million tops the list while Laika's more artistic Kubo and the Two Strings ($48 million) constitutes the low end.
This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.
