By John H. Foote

Since 1970, the following Oscar winning Best Pictures were also major box office hits. Bear in mind these are Best Picture WINNERS, if I were to list the nominees that were hits the list grows substantially. And if we’re to go backwards, into the sixties, awestruck West Side Story (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Tom Jones (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Oliver! (1968) were box office hits all!

Methinks the Academy did blow it…yet again.

PATTON (1970)

THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)

THE GODFATHER (1972)

THE STING (1973)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975)

ROCKY (1976)

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)

ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)

AMADEUS (1984)

OUT OF AFRICA (1985)

PLATOON (1987)

RAIN MAN (1988)

DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)

FORREST GUMP (1994)

TITANIC (1997)

GLADIATOR (2000)

CHICAGO (2002)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

THE DEPARTED (2006)

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (2008)

THE ARTIST (2011)

ARGO (2012)

SPOTLIGHT (2016)

 

Box office hits all….is that not popular? Hmmmm, seems to me it is.

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