The billionaire football fans and real-life Top Guns funding your favourite Oscar films

Superyachts, football clubs, social media networks… and Oscar-winning films? Money has always been the dirty secret behind Hollywood success – those Best Picture goodie-bags don’t pay for themselves – but in recent years, the billionaire class behind the biggest films has come increasingly into the limelight. Moguls and (multi-multi) millionaires are turning away from the industries that made them their fortunes and investing in movies. Even more eyebrow-raising? Most of these films are very goo