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Indeed, many of these movies have not done well at the box-office in recent years. The diminishing ratings of recent Oscar telecasts may be related to the dislike the casual viewing public has for the average Oscar-nominated film. Some have argued that it's time the voters started getting back in line with "popular tastes" (though there are a few recent nominees that ''are'' blockbusters). But the people who do the nominations are unlikely to change their criteria, so the status quo continues. In extreme cases, this can lead to an [[Award Snub]]: movies widely accepted to be genuinely deserving but don't appear to tick the correct boxes are overlooked in favor of less-deserving fare which does.
It's worth nothing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [https://web.archive.org/web/20100721172303/http://www.moviecitynews.com/Notepad/2009/090624_pr.htm announced] that starting with the 2010 ceremony (honoring the films of 2009) the Best Picture category would be expanded to include ''ten'' nominees instead of the long-traditional five. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112210336/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
It's also worth noting recent Best Picture winners like ''The Departed'' and ''No Country For Old Men'', along with the large number of depressing historical dramas (read: Oscar Bait) that don't win. The Academy may be able to detect more blatant bait.
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** The last horror film to win one of the top awards (and ''only'' one prior to ''Silence'') was ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', for which Fredric March won Best Actor...in 1932!
** Consider that the one other film among the 1991 Best Picture nominees that compared in terms of critical praise ''and'' box-office popularity was ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', which had the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] working against it—to the point that jokes were made during the telecast about how a film consisting of "movable paintings" (as Billy Crystal put it in his opening number as host) was up against movies with live actors.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Titanic]]'' were about trying to get dream projects on screen, not about winning Oscars. Yet one got a sweep, and the other got almost all of its awards, though the former did not do so until the entire trilogy was finished (it's suggested the awards for Return of the King apply to the whole trilogy as the Academy didn't want a three-year shutout). Both films were widely praised and made a ridiculous amount of money and remain excessively popular to this day, even factoring in the usual [[Hype Backlash]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' (the original 1977 film) got Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (for Sir Alec Guinness) and Best Screenplay. It didn't win any of them, of course, but ''still''. ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' also managed to get nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.
** Same for ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''.
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* Since an Oscar speech kicks off the plot of the comedy ''[[In and Out]]'', the first 15 minutes of the movie has a field day with this trope. First, Matt Dillon's character wins for playing a gay soldier unfairly discharged from the military in a movie called ''To Protect And Serve'', which is a hilariously hammy pastiche incorporating elements of ''A Few Good Men'', ''Philadelphia'' and ''Forrest Gump.'' Second, the other nominees in the category are listed as follows: "Paul Newman for ''Coot'', Clint Eastwood for ''Codger'', Michael Douglas for ''Primary Urges'' and Steven Seagal for ''Snowball in Hell''."
* ''[[The Naked Gun]] 33 1/3''. The films nominated at the Oscars were all ridiculously [[High Concept]] ("the story of a woman coming to terms with the death of her dog during the Hindenburg disaster).
* In ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'', bratty star Om "OK" Kapoor belatedly realizes that he is in the Indian equivalent of
** Later in the film, we are treated with a parody of a Filmfare Awards ceremony (The closest equivalent to the Oscars in Hindi film industry), and we see the nominations for Best Main Actor. Two of the nominations are parodies of the kind of action films the other nominees (Abhishek Bachchan and Akshay Kumar [[Adam Westing]]) are known to do, the other two are films by OK which are parodies of romantic films that Shah Rukh Khan (Ok's actor) have famously done.
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