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The Oscars Do Not Care What You Want Or Like
By Movieguide® Staff
As if it’s any surprise at this point, the Oscars have gone so far beyond reality that they’ve isolated the single largest audience in the nation – Christian moviegoers.
Less than 20 million people tuned in to the 2024 broadcast, which is less than half of the views the Academy Awards garnered in 2014, proving that the push for immoral content is losing its appeal to viewers.
Instead of nominating — much less awarding — some of 2023’s biggest blockbusters, the Academy, instead, chose to focus on gross immoral movies that disgust the discerning viewer.
OPPENHEIMER was a box office juggernaut and took home the awards for Best Picture, Cillian Murphy for Best Actor, Robert Downey Jr. for Best Supporting Actor, Christopher Nolan for Best Director, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing.
However, OPPENHEIMER fell short at the box office behind the family-oriented movies of SUPER MARIO BROS, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3, according to Movieguide®’s comprehensive annual Report to the Entertainment Industry.
Yet the Academy’s peculiar abhorrent taste continues.
The deplorable POOR THINGS, for example, took home four Oscars. It made less than $34 million in the box office. The movie was easily one of the most excessive to hit the big screen last year and made less than $700,000 in its opening weekend.
Meanwhile, the faith-filled SOUND OF FREEDOM was one of last year’s shocking blockbuster successes, appealing to a values-driven audience. Of course, the Academy refused to acknowledge it, but Christian audiences turned out en masse to give it a nearly $20 million opening weekend and a $250 million worldwide box office.
Christians are the single largest viewing audience in the United States. The Academy Awards chose to isolate people of faith and instead focus on a select group of entertainers that were far from the biggest money makers in the industry in 2023.
Movieguide® has devoted our resources to reviewing movies to show that family-oriented moviegoers should have more choices for their entertainment.
According to Movieguide®’s Report to the Entertainment Industry:
The mass media creates the culture that shapes the hearts and minds of children and teenagers and controls society.
However, the Hollywood Entertainment Industry can’t afford to ignore the world’s 2.56 billion Christians, including America’s 241.99 million or so Christians (72%) who say they believe in the deity of Jesus Christ and who believe Jesus Christ was the Son of God who came to Earth to die for our sins. They also can’t afford to ignore the 221.76 million Americans (66%) who believe God is “a perfect being and cannot make a mistake,” nor the 238.56 million Americans (71%) who believe in the Holy Trinity, nor the 221.76 million Americans (66%) who believe in the historical physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nor can they afford to ignore the 112.56 million
Americans who go to church weekly on a typical Sunday morning. Neither can Christians afford to ignore the influence Hollywood has on the world’s children and grandchildren, and on the society in which they live.
A poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates reported that 61% of Americans believe there would be less kindness if Jesus Christ had never been born, 63% said there would be less charity, 58% said there would be less tolerance, and 59% said there would be less personal happiness.
Meanwhile, according to the last religious census of American church congregations, the number of congregations in the United States has increased to at least 384,000, largely due to the growth of nondenominational churches. The number of movie theater sites in the United States, including multiplexes, is 5,798, according to Statista. Thus, there are at least 66 churches for every movie theater location.
All these facts show why movies with strong and very strong Christian, redemptive, biblical, and moral content and values make much more money, on average, year in and year out, than movies with Non-Christian, Anti-Christian, false, or immoral content. This is exactly what MOVIEGUIDE®’s Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry proves.
This means that Oscar ship has sailed so far beyond the horizon to appeal to gross immorality that it may not be able to correct course before it becomes obsolete.
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