Nolte: No Serious Oscar Box Office Bump for Best Picture Nominees
We’re a long way from the days when the imprimatur of an Academy Award nomination excited the public enough to spin box office gold.
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Nolte: ‘Jesus Revolution’ Grosses More than 4 Oscar Nominees…Combined
After only two weeks in release, a little Christian film called “Jesus Revolution” has grossed $30.5 million, more than four Best Picture nominees combined.
Nolte: Best Picture Nominees Are All Box Office Flops and TV Movies
The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we’ve seen in a long time.
Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1927 to 1930
Here are the movies that should have won the Best Pictuire Academy Awards between 1927 and 1930.
Major Backlash Follows the Addition of Popular Film Oscar Category
Big changes are coming to the Academy Awards, including the addition of a popular film award category and the promise of a shorter ceremony in an effort to combat declining viewership and criticisms that the awards are out of touch with the mainstream. But the Wednesday morning announcement was also met with immediate backlash online, raising questions about what the new category would mean for a film like “Black Panther,” a global blockbuster which has also been talked about as a favorite contender for the best picture Oscar.
Nolte: Why I (and the Rest of America) Didn’t See This Year’s Oscar Nominees
A quick look at what this year’s Best Picture nominees were about helps to explain why this Oscar bait made no money at the box office.
Oscars Producer: Best Picture Fiasco ‘Like the Hindenburg’ Disaster
Academy Awards producer Michael De Luca opened up about the Best Picture mix-up during the Oscars this week in an interview, comparing the experience of being backstage during the fiasco to that of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster.
Exclusive — President Trump: Oscars ‘Were Focused so Hard on Politics’ They Could Not Get the Basics of the Ceremony Right
President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office, said that the Academy Awards failure on Sunday evening was due in large part to Hollywood’s obsessive focus on politics—attacking him, generally speaking.
Oscars Disaster: Beatty and Dunaway Announce Wrong Best Picture Winner
The 89th annual Academy Awards ended on a bizarre note Sunday night as presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced La La Land as the winner of the Best Picture award, when Moonlight had really won the award.
Psychiatric Hospital Fined for Showing Child Patients ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
A Moscow psychiatric hospital has been fined for showing child patients the 1991 horror-thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
Best Director Winner Blasts Mexican Government
Sunday night’s Academy Awards was littered with political commentary, with Best Director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu no exception as he dedicated Birdman’s Best Picture win to his fellow Mexicans, “who live in Mexico.” Iñárritu’s comments echo prior statements made by last year’s Best Director and fellow Mexican, Alfonso Cuarón, slamming Mexican government officials over systematic corruption.
