D's and F's, they shouldn't have made the movie, or they promoted it funny and the absolute wrong crowd got into it". Horror films consistently score lower; "The Conjuring"s A− was the first time a horror film scored better than B+. CinemaScore's Harold Mintz said that "An F in a horror film is equivalent to a B− in a comedy". An A+ grade from CinemaScore for a film typically predicts a successful box office. From 1982 to August 2011, only 52 films (about two a year) received the top grade, including seven Academy Award for Best Picture winners. From 2000 to January 2020, there were 53 movies with A+. , 89 films have received A+. From 2004 to 2014, those rated A+ and A had multiples of 4.8 and 3.6, respectively, while C-rated films' total revenue was 2.5 times their opening weekend. Ed Mintz cited Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Cruise as the "two stars, it doesn't matter how bad the film is, they can pull (the projections) up". (DiCaprio's "Shutter Island" had a 3.1 revenue multiple despite a C+ grade, and Cruise's "Vanilla Sky" had a 4 multiple with a D grade.)  , 21 films have received an F grade from CinemaScore. Vulture wrote that besides horror,  Vulture cited as examples of such F-graded films Steven Soderbergh's "Solaris" with George Clooney, Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" with Brad Pitt, and Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!" with Jennifer Lawrence. In an essay for "The Hollywood Reporter", Martin Scorsese strongly criticized this type of approach by writing:  CinemaScore's forecasts for box-office receipts based on the surveys are, according to the "Los Angeles Times", "surprisingly accurate" as "most of [the company's] picks...are in the ballpark", in 2009 correctly predicting the success of "The Hangover" and the failure of "Land of the Lost". Hollywood executives are divided on CinemaScore's accuracy. One told "Deadline Hollywood" "It's not always right, but it's a pretty good indicator. I rely on it", while another said that competitor PostTrak was "much better...more thorough and in-depth". As of 2019, only two directors have made the list three times: Rob Reiner (1987, 1989, 1992) and Alex Kendrick (2011, 2015, 2019).