re: If these movies were released in the same year, which wins Best Picture Oscar?

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historical setting + amazing effects + love story + celebrating a "good" movie making so much money. just a ton of overall momentum

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I'm thinking the money part had to be maybe the biggest part of it. For how much money that it made, it would have been a marketing nightmare if it wasn't at least nominated for a bunch of awards for the sake of legitimacy.