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Can ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ & ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ save the Oscars from a rating drop?

While there’s certainly more than one reason why the Oscars aren’t drawing the audience they used to be, it’s hard not to notice that it’s also becoming increasingly rare for the top award nominations to reflect movies that global audiences are actually watching. The highest-grossing films of the year worldwide Avatar: The Way of the Water and Top Gun: Maverick are in contention at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. Could that be the key to saving the Oscars from the ratings slump?