Popularity and the Dramatic Presentation Awards

Why isn't there a review here? Mainly because if I hold off starting the Nebula reviews until Wednesday then next week can be an all Samuel R. Delany spectacular with his two Nebula winning novels and his Hugo winning history. That kind of set up is too good for me to resist so the reviews of novels will start up again on Wednesday.

To tide you over, though, I thought I'd take a quick look at the dramatic presentation awards. They're tied to popularity even more than the novel categories. Here's a list of all of the winners that have made more than $100 million dollars and where they place in the list of all time top grossing films:

2 - Star Wars - $460,998,007 - 1978 Hugo
9 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - $377,027,325 - 2004 Hugo and Nebula
12 - Jurassic Park - $357,067,947 - 1994 Hugo
13 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - $341,786,758 - 2003 Hugo and Nebula
21 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - $314,776,170 - 2002 Hugo and Nebula
24 - Return of the Jedi - $309,306,177 - 1984 Hugo
27 - The Sixth Sense - $293,506,292 - 1999 Nebula
30 - The Empire Strikes Back - $290,475,067 - 1981 Hugo
37 - The Incredibles - $261,441,092 - 2005 Hugo
49 - Raiders of the Lost Ark - $242,374,454 - 1982 Hugo
74 - Back to the Future - $210,609,762 - 1986 Hugo
80 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day - $204,843,345 - 1992 Hugo
149 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit - $156,452,370 - 1989 Hugo
207 - Superman - $134,218,018 - 1979 Hugo
230 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - $128,078,872 - 2001 Hugo and Nebula
242 - The Truman Show - $125,618,201 - 1999 Hugo

The majority of the remaining winners are television shows which obviously wouldn't be on this list. The award is biased heavily against smaller, quality films though in the past two years the awards have gone to Pan's Labyrinth and Serenity which I would not describe as "popular". Perhaps things are changing...