Hollywood’s History Since 1966

January 24, 2025 by • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

  • In 1966:  Time asks “Is God dead?”.   Time complained they couldn’t find “a work of art that would convey a contemporary notion of God”.
  • Late 60’s/early 70’s:  The film industry struggling for economic survival.
  • 1972 – 2003:  Hollywood creates 209 movies that would outgross the Best Picture winners, according to the yearly box-office charts.  The average Best Picture winner ranks in the top 10 at the yearly box-office during this era of 32 years.
  • In 2004:  The Passion Of The Christ opens to box-office records for opening weekends in February, after which it would spend six more weekends grossing at least $10 million.  Spending four weekends total at the top of the box-office charts, it would become the highest grossing R-rated film at the domestic box-office for 20 years.  (What other worldview or religion has a film about its central core to do so well at the box-office, to hold an important box-office record for so long?)
  • In 2005:  The film industry goes out of its way to snub The Passion Of The Christ in most categories during awards season, except for three minor categories.
  • 2004-2022:  Hollywood creates over 1,000 movies that would outgross the Best Picture winners, according to the yearly box-office charts.  The average Best Picture winner ranks below 52 at the yearly box-office during this era of 19 years…as opposed to ranking in the top 10.
  • In 2023:  A successful director who once received a DGA nomination for directing a comic book film (the kind of movie that has proven to be Hollywood’s bread and butter for many years) directs an R-rated film that would become one of the year’s top ten biggest hits at the box-office.
  • In 2024:  The film industry showers accolades on that hit film during the awards season.  Later in the year, a comic book film smashes the domestic box-office record for all R-rated films, finally ending the 20 year-old record held by The Passion Of The Christ.
  • In 2025:  God, the Creator of the universe, gets mocked at an awards show early in the season.  Later that week, the R-rated comic book box-office record-holder fails to get a DGA nomination.  (Since 1978, only one comic book movie has received the DGA’s most prestigious nomination.)  Later in the month, Oscar history is made when the movie leading with the most nominations became the first movie ever to land more nominations than the number of people outside of Los Angeles County to see the movie.  Okay, that last sentence is probably just a joke.  Probably.