Success comes in many forms, so we're looking at the box office performances of all 10 of this year's Oscar nominees for Best Picture.

The biggest problem with the Oscars, to my mind, is that they stopped factoring in the public. This was and remains a problem for Hollywood, too. At least this year, some movies in the race could be considered blockbusters. If any year should give the Academy an incentive to shrink Best Picture down to five -- or even six and…