{"id":1699,"date":"2007-02-22T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/02\/oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-redux\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:33:00","slug":"oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/02\/oscar-winners-slipping-at-the-box-office-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar winners slipping at the box office redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

RC<\/a> at Strange Culture says the Oscar<\/a> nominations<\/a> should not be based on which films did best at the box office. I agree.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that reminds me, I should probably update a post that I made here last year<\/a>, which marked the first time since 1985 that not one of the Best Picture nominees grossed over $100 million either before or after their nominations, and possibly the first time ever<\/i> that the winner was not one of the top 25 films at the domestic box office. (Crash<\/a><\/i> actually ranks way down at 49th for 2005.)<\/p>\n

This year<\/a>, the only Best Picture nominee that is anywhere near as popular as the winners of old is The Departed<\/a><\/i>, which has made over $131 million so far and ranks 15th for the year. After that:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Little Miss Sunshine<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $59,763,253 \u2014 52nd<\/li>\n
  2. The Queen<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $51,618,000 \u2014 62nd<\/li>\n
  3. Babel<\/a><\/i> \u2014 $33,312,919 \u2014 93rd<\/li>\n
  4. Letters from Iwo Jima<\/i> \u2014 $12,013,291 \u2014 146th<\/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. The Queen<\/i> and Babel<\/i> have both experienced a post-nomination surge \u2014 indeed, despite coming out months ago, they have made almost a third of their grosses in just the last few weeks \u2014 and Letters from Iwo Jima<\/i> did not go into wide release until after<\/i> it had been nominated.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Ah well, whatever else happens, it seems certain that 2006 will mark the first time in three years that the Best Picture winner was not outgrossed by a documentary \u2014 assuming we don\u2019t count the semi-fictitious Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/a><\/i> as a \u201cdocumentary\u201d.<\/p>\n

    (In 2004<\/a>, the un-nominated Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/a><\/i> outgrossed Million Dollar Baby<\/a><\/i>; and in 2005<\/a>, Best Documentary winner March of the Penguins<\/a><\/i> outgrossed Crash<\/i>; whereas in 2006<\/a>, the top-grossing documentary was An Inconvenient Truth<\/a><\/i>, with $24.1 million \u2014 less than all the Best Picture nominees except for Iwo Jima<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ll copy the list that I compiled last year below, and I\u2019ll add this year\u2019s winner after it is announced this Sunday.<\/p>\n

    2006 \u2014 15 \u2014 $131.6 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 26 UPDATE: Updated to include the winner for 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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