"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was the top earner of this year's visual effects Oscar nominees, at $1.3B global box office.
Just as I did for 2016 films, 2015 films, 2014 films, 2013 films, 2012 films and 2011 films, I thought it would be interesting to track the average global box office grosses from this year's Academy Award nominees, per category.
The average global box office of Best Visual Effects Oscar nominees was $700.8B (up from $575M last year).
The five nominees for this year's visual effects earned a total global box office gross of about $3.5B (up from $2.8B last year). The monster earner was "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" at $1.3B, with "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" next up at $864M. The other behemoth Oscar nominee at the box office was "Beauty and the Beast" at $1.2B, which boosted the Art Direction and Costume Design categories.
The last five years at a glance:
Average global box office of Best Visual Effects films:
2017 (90th Academy Awards) - $701M
Top Grosser: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 1.3B
2016 (89th Academy Awards) - $575M
Top Grosser: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 1.0B
2015 (88th Academy Awards) - $657M
Top Grosser: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, $2B
2014 (87th Academy Awards) - $723M
Top Grosser: Guardians of the Galaxy, $774M
2013 (86th Academy Awards) - $698M
Top Grosser: Iron Man 3, $1.2B
2012 (85th Academy Awards) - $763M
Top Grosser: The Avengers, $1.5B
2011 (84th Academy Awards) - $662M
Top Grosser: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, 1.35B
I wrote this concerning the 2011 box office when I charted the box office averages for the 84th Academy Awards, and unfortunately, this still is true.
It also illustrates the sad state of the visual effects community. The average Oscar nominee for visual effects made over $662 million globally, and yet our industry has relatively little power in Hollywood.
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