But it’s been a long time since films with as much box office attention as Barbieand Oppenheimer have been genuine threats to win best picture, which might be why we’ve got box office on the brain for the other best-picture nominees too. On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, the team answers a question from listener Matt, who wonders if the global box office performance of Killers of the Flower Moon—$156 million worldwide—might be a hindrance. Meanwhile, Poor Things and American Fiction are surging in theaters at just the right moment for Oscar voting, which could give them the attention they need. Even a relatively tiny film like The Zone of Interest, which has made $7.3 million worldwide, is well on its way to being the most successful film director Jonathan Glazer has ever released in the US. Not every best-picture contender can be Barbie, but box office success can be measured in many different ways.
That’s just one listener question pondered on this week’s show; other topics include the editing and visual-effects races, the potential for the Oscars to shift to an earlier date on the calendar, and which nominations this year might qualify as category fraud. The team also looks ahead to this week’s Directors Guild Awards and Monday’s Oscar nominees luncheon, when this year’s contenders will shake off their brief February slumber and gear up for the final stretch of their campaigns. Get your formalwear ready—we’ll see you there.
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