{"id":1066,"date":"2008-01-29T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-re-redux\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:49:00","slug":"oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-re-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-re-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar winners slipping at the box office re-redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On Sunday<\/a>, Juno<\/a><\/i> became the first and probably only one of 2007\u2019s Best Picture nominees<\/a> to gross over $100 million \u2014 and that tells me I should probably follow up the posts I wrote in 2005<\/a> and 2006<\/a> on the relationship between the Oscars and the box office.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005<\/a> marked the first time since 1996 that the Best Picture winner<\/i> did not gross at least $100 million, the first time since 1985 that not one of the Best Picture nominees<\/i> grossed at least $100 million, and the first time in living memory that the Best Picture winner was not one of the Top 25 grossing films of its year. (In fact, the winning film for that year, Paul Haggis\u2019s Crash<\/a><\/i>, ranked way, way down at #49.)<\/p>\n

2006<\/a> brought a return to Hollywood form with the Best Picture victory of Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Departed<\/a><\/i>, which grossed $132.4 million and ranked #15 for the year.<\/p>\n

But now<\/a>, once again, the nominees pretty much all come from the \u201cindependent\u201d or \u201carthouse\u201d segment of the industry \u2014 with the exception of Michael Clayton<\/i>, which was produced on a low budget and failed to find a very big audience, so it might just as well be an \u201cindependent\u201d or \u201carthouse\u201d movie anyway. Here are the nominees\u2019 current grosses and box-office rankings, as of yesterday:<\/p>\n

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  1. Juno<\/i> \u2014 $100,742,315 \u2014 27th<\/li>\n
  2. No Country for Old Men<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $51,956,842 \u2014 48th<\/li>\n
  3. Michael Clayton<\/i> \u2014 $41,847,879 \u2014 62nd<\/li>\n
  4. Atonement<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $38,158,571 \u2014 70th<\/li>\n
  5. There Will Be Blood<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $15,167,802 \u2014 123rd<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, these totals can and will change, and the rankings of the various films will no doubt slide up a bit. In fact, all five nominees were in this past weekend<\/a>\u2018s Top 16, and only one of those films \u2014 Michael Clayton<\/i> \u2014 was a re-issue; the rest have been playing more or less steadily, gradually building their respective audiences, since they were released one or two or three months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Anything can happen between now and February 24, when the Academy Awards ceremony takes place, but right now it looks like No Country for Old Men<\/i> will win the top prize \u2014 given that it won the DGA award and the SAG ensemble award last weekend \u2014 and if that turns out to be the case, then this could very well be the second time in my lifetime that the Oscar for Best Picture went to a film of unusually limited commercial appeal. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that, of course!<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ll copy the list that I compiled two years ago below, and I\u2019ll add this year\u2019s winner after it is announced next month.<\/p>\n

    2007 \u2014 40 \u2014 $64.6 million \u2014 No Country for Old Men<\/i>
    2006 \u2014 15 \u2014 $132.4 million \u2014 The Departed<\/i>
    2005 \u2014 49 \u2014 $53.4 million \u2014 Crash<\/i>
    2004 \u2014 24 \u2014 $100.5 million \u2014 Million Dollar Baby<\/i>
    2003 \u2014 1 \u2014 $377.0 million \u2014 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King<\/i>
    2002 \u2014 10 \u2014 $170.7 million \u2014 Chicago<\/i>
    2001 \u2014 11 \u2014 $170.7 million \u2014 A Beautiful Mind<\/i>
    2000 \u2014 4 \u2014 $187.7 million \u2014 Gladiator<\/i>
    1999 \u2014 13 \u2014 $130.1 million \u2014 American Beauty<\/i>
    1998 \u2014 18 \u2014 $100.3 million \u2014 Shakespeare in Love<\/i>
    1997 \u2014 1 \u2014 $600.8 million \u2014 Titanic<\/i>
    1996 \u2014 19 \u2014 $78.7 million \u2014 The English Patient<\/i>
    1995 \u2014 18 \u2014 $75.6 million \u2014 Braveheart<\/i>
    1994 \u2014 1 \u2014 $329.7 million \u2014 Forrest Gump<\/i>
    1993 \u2014 9 \u2014 $96.1 million \u2014 Schindler\u2019s List<\/i>
    1992 \u2014 11 \u2014 $101.2 million \u2014 Unforgiven<\/i>
    1991 \u2014 4 \u2014 $130.7 million \u2014 Silence of the Lambs<\/i>
    1990 \u2014 3 \u2014 $184.2 million \u2014 Dances with Wolves<\/i>
    1989 \u2014 8 \u2014 $106.6 million \u2014 Driving Miss Daisy<\/i>
    1988 \u2014 1 \u2014 $172.8 million \u2014 Rain Man<\/i>
    1987 \u2014 25 \u2014 $44.0 million \u2014 The Last Emperor<\/i>
    1986 \u2014 3 \u2014 $138.5 million \u2014 Platoon<\/i>
    1985 \u2014 5 \u2014 $87.1 million \u2014 Out of Africa<\/i>
    1984 \u2014 12 \u2014 $52.0 million \u2014 Amadeus<\/i>
    1983 \u2014 2 \u2014 $108.4 million \u2014 Terms of Endearment<\/i>
    1982 \u2014 12 \u2014 $52.8 million \u2014 Gandhi<\/i>
    1981 \u2014 7 \u2014 $59.0 million \u2014 Chariots of Fire<\/i>
    1980 \u2014 11 \u2014 $54.8 million \u2014 Ordinary People<\/i>
    1979 \u2014 xx \u2014 $106.3 million \u2014 Kramer Vs. Kramer<\/i>
    1978 \u2014 xx \u2014 $49.0 million \u2014 The Deer Hunter<\/i>
    1977 \u2014 xx \u2014 $38.3 million \u2014 Annie Hall<\/i>
    1976 \u2014 xx \u2014 $117.2 million \u2014 Rocky<\/i>
    1975 \u2014 xx \u2014 $109.0 million \u2014 One Flew over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/i>
    1974 \u2014 xx \u2014 $47.5 million \u2014 The Godfather Part II<\/i>
    1973 \u2014 xx \u2014 $156.0 million \u2014 The Sting<\/i>
    1972 \u2014 xx \u2014 $133.7 million \u2014 The Godfather<\/i>
    1971 \u2014 xx \u2014 $51.7 million \u2014 The French Connection<\/i>
    1970 \u2014 xx \u2014 $61.7 million \u2014 Patton<\/i><\/p>\n

    FEB 27 UPDATE: Updated to include the winner for 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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