Will Oscar Ratings Sink Because Of Low-Box Office Movies?

This time out, the top-grossing best-pic contender is Fox Searchlight’s “Juno,” which has a worldwide cume of $134 million — a tidy sum for a little indie, but not exactly in the same league as “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (which sports two noms and a B.O. gross of nearly $1 billion).