Award Season 2007!

[Alex]

I agree it was a good year for movies, but again the divide between critical success and popular success seems pretty wide.

I'm guessing that Juno made it into the five best picture nods because with Ratatouille relegated to the animation ghetto, it was one of the better instersections of the two. Juno is by far the best performing (financially) of the five -- though still only the 31st best grosser for the year -- and only American Gangster (18th) and Enchanted (20th).


One of the bloggers I was reading had a break down of how the divide has grown over the last decade. It used to be that that at least one top 10 movie would make it into the best picture nominations every year (and in the 60s seven of ten top grossers were nominated) to the point where that hasn't even happened in four years running.