Alternative Film Guide

According to an Associated Press report, the five nominees for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award have been seen by fewer moviegoers — 51 million thus far — than any other group of best-picture nominees in the last two decades. (At the time of the 1985 Oscar ceremony, Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, and A Soldier’s Story had been seen by 41 million people.)

That fact doesn’t bode too well for the upcoming Academy Award ceremony on February 27, especially considering that other recent award shows — including the Golden Globes, the People’s Choice Awards, the Emmys, and the Grammys — have either had their worst ratings in recent memory or their worst ratings ever.

Addendum: According to a February 22 Chicago Tribune report, 38 million tickets have been sold domestically (that usually means U.S./Canada) for this year’s five Best Picture contenders. Titanic alone had sold approximately 105 million tickets by the time the Oscar ceremony was aired in 1998.

 

 

 

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