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Good news for anyone who watches the 2019 Oscars: There's a strong unintentional you will have actually seen many of the Best picture nominees. The Academy rave review nominations won't be announced until January 22, but it already looks with several blockbusters may create the Best picture cut -- including the top-grossing movie of 2018 at the North American bin office, Black Panther. That's good news to folks with Phil Contrino, director of research for the National membership of Theatre Owners, who had this to say:
To look a movie with Black Panther in the conversation is totally reassuring. It shows that the Oscars are more in song with what the paying public is responding to.
The Oscars does not often bill that tune, as analysts noted to Fortune. Even with the Academy now nominating up to 10 titles a year for Best Picture, a perennial illness from mainstream viewers is I Haven't Even Heard Of Most Of These Movies.
Even if a few mainstream hits create the nominee cut, the winner is usually a non-blockbuster -- with The impinge on of Water last year, Moonlight the year before, and Spotlight the year back that. In 2011, black-and-white silent film The artist took the win, despite isolated making a sum of $44 million at the domestic bin office.
However! The year we just left at the rear was really a special one. Not isolated did the bin office hit an all-time record $11.82 billion, a lot of that grant was made by blockbusters of high quality. Many of those high-grossing films are acknowledged to compete neighboring each extra at the 91st Academy Awards.
Marvel's Black Panther -- which has made $1.3 billion worldwide -- is poised to be the first superhero film to be nominated for Oscar's Best Picture. It could creation a trend that continues into 2019 and beyond, especially back the Academy tabled that idea for a "Popular Film" Oscar category.
If you head greater than to GoldDerby, they are already deep into Best picture predictions, with high odds going to A Star Is Born, substitute mainstream hit which has earned $389 million worldwide to date. Not isolated is A Star Is Born acknowledged to nab a Best picture nomination, it's in addition to eyed for Best Director and Best Actor nods for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for woman Gaga, probably a song win for both, and potentially more.
Black Panther is in addition to on GoldDerby's nomination list, along with -- a bit extra all along -- extra blockbusters with Mary Poppins Returns ($175M consequently far, but it just opened) and Bohemian Rhapsody ($702.5M worldwide consequently far). Rami Malek is beautiful much a lock for a Best Actor nomination, and we'll have to look if he can seal the deal with a win.
Sure, the Best picture nominee list will concerning totally in addition to enlarge indie darlings with Roma -- which should be earning extra fans through Netflix, but we don't know how many -- improvement The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk. Green Book, BlacKkKlansman, Vice, and First Man are in addition to on the potential nominee list, despite non-blockbuster numbers.
The 2018-2019 nominee list should be a engaging amalgamation of blockbusters and indies, which is ... how it should always be? It depends on any year's crop of films, of course, but if the Oscars wants to survive in a world where fewer people are watching awards shows, it would back to keep including films people not isolated watched but in addition to enjoyed.
Moving forward, it looks with 2019 has a totally healthy lineup of potential blockbusters that in addition to have the potential to be genuinely great films. Will we look some of them on the 2019-2020 Oscars nomination list? mature will tell. Check out some of CinemaBlend's picks for the best films of 2018, and the full 2019 schedule ahead.
The 91st Academy rave review nominations will be announced Tuesday, January 22. The awards ceremony will let breathe rouse on Sunday, February 24, at 5:00 PM PST on ABC. There's no host yet, as of this writing, after losing Kevin Hart.
