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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 38, 2022)

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Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking at the inflation-adjusted numbers). The third section is an alphabetical list of those films and the categories in which they were nominated. And to start each week off, we’ll be looking at the films releasing over the weekend that have the best chance of getting Oscar nominations and specifying the categories where we think they have the best shots at this stage of the game. If you have any suggestions for more data you’d like to see, please let us know.

This Year: Potential Oscar Nominees Releasing This Weekend

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5 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 22-24, 2017

Weekend Box Office:

  1. Dunkirk (2017, 90th) – $582,713 ($186,292,020 total) {week 10}
  2. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, 90th) – $264,948 ($146,252,402 total) {week 11}
  3. Baby Driver (2017, 90th) – $235,025 ($107,446,585 total) {week 13}
  4. Victoria & Abdul (2017, 90th) – $158,845 ($158,845 total) {week 1}
  5. The Big Sick (2017, 90th) – $106,531 ($42,707,638 total) {week 14}
  6. Loving Vincent (2017, 90th) – $23,180 ($23,180 total) {week 1}
  7. The Boss Baby (2017, 90th) – $524 ($174,980,616 total) {week 26}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. Dunkirk (2017, 90th) – $621,690 ($198,753,025 total)
  2. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, 90th) – $282,670 ($156,035,171 total)
  3. Baby Driver (2017, 90th) – $250,746 ($114,633,648 total)
  4. Victoria & Abdul (2017, 90th) – $169,470 ($169,470 total)
  5. The Big Sick (2017, 90th) – $113,657 ($45,564,336 total)
  6. Loving Vincent (2017, 90th) – $24,731 ($24,731 total)
  7. The Boss Baby (2017, 90th) – $559 ($186,685,005 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Baby Driver (2017, 90th): Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Film Editing
  • The Big Sick (2017, 90th): Original Screenplay
  • The Boss Baby (2017, 90th): Animated Feature
  • Dunkirk (2017, 90th): Picture, Directing, Original Score, Film Editing [O], Cinematography, Production Design, Sound Mixing [O], Sound Film Editing [O]
  • Loving Vincent (2017, 90th): Animated Feature
  • Victoria & Abdul (2017, 90th): Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling
  • War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, 90th): Visual Effects

10 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 21-23, 2012

Weekend Box Office:

  1. The Master (2012, 85th) – $4,391,092 ($5,446,975 total) {week 2}
  2. ParaNorman (2012, 85th) – $2,345,630 ($52,582,728 total) {week 6}
  3. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012, 85th) – $466,320 ($622,888,162 total) {week 21}
  4. Ted (2012, 85th) – $244,655 ($217,838,900 total) {week 13}
  5. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, 85th) – $127,879 ($45,161,623 total) {week 18}
  6. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, 85th) – $123,747 ($10,902,973 total) {week 13}
  7. Searching for Sugar Man (2012, 85th) – $93,338 ($1,186,139 total) {week 9}
  8. How to Survive a Plague (2012, 85th) – $28,250 ($28,250 total) {week 1}
  9. Monsieur Lazhar (2011, 84th) – $1,468 ($2,005,701 total) {week 24}
  10. The Invisible War (2012, 85th) – $155 ($59,715 total) {week 14}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. The Master (2012, 85th) – $5,279,240 ($6,548,687 total)
  2. ParaNorman (2012, 85th) – $2,820,060 ($63,218,179 total)
  3. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012, 85th) – $560,638 ($748,874,335 total)
  4. Ted (2012, 85th) – $294,139 ($261,899,281 total)
  5. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, 85th) – $153,744 ($54,296,072 total)
  6. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, 85th) – $148,776 ($13,108,223 total)
  7. Searching for Sugar Man (2012, 85th) – $112,217 ($1,426,049 total)
  8. How to Survive a Plague (2012, 85th) – $33,964 ($33,964 total)
  9. Monsieur Lazhar (2011, 84th) – $1,765 ($2,411,377 total)
  10. The Invisible War (2012, 85th) – $186 ($71,793 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012, 85th): Picture, Directing, Actress (Quvenzhane Wallis), Adapted Screenplay
  • How to Survive a Plague (2012, 85th): Documentary Feature
  • The Invisible War (2012, 85th): Documentary Feature
  • Marvel’s The Avengers (2012, 85th): Visual Effects
  • The Master (2012, 85th): Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Supporting Actress (Amy Adams)
  • Monsieur Lazhar (2011, 84th): Foreign Language Film
  • Moonrise Kingdom (2012, 85th): Original Screenplay
  • ParaNorman (2012, 85th): Animated Feature
  • Searching for Sugar Man (2012, 85th): Documentary Feature [O]
  • Ted (2012, 85th): Original Song (“Everybody Needs a Best Friend”)

15 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 21-23, 2007

Weekend Box Office:

  1. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, 80th) – $6,157,624 ($37,718,878 total) {week 3}
  2. Eastern Promises (2007, 80th) – $5,659,133 ($6,461,093 total) {week 2}
  3. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, 80th) – $2,872,565 ($220,239,735 total) {week 8}
  4. Across the Universe (2007, 80th) – $1,950,871 ($2,896,771 total) {week 2}
  5. Transformers (2007, 80th) – $1,436,280 ($313,588,051 total) {week 12}
  6. In the Valley of Elah (2007, 80th) – $1,266,869 ($1,449,030 total) {week 2}
  7. Ratatouille (2007, 80th) – $360,229 ($203,040,254 total) {week 13}
  8. Into the Wild (2007, 80th) – $212,440 ($212,440 total) {week 1}
  9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, 80th) – $147,812 ($147,812 total) {week 1}
  10. Once (2007, 80th) – $141,790 ($8,926,918 total) {week 19}
  11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007, 80th) – $120,310 ($309,302,628 total) {week 18}
  12. No End in Sight (2007, 80th) – $38,668 ($1,337,004 total) {week 9}
  13. Sicko (2007, 80th) – $38,603 ($24,416,389 total) {week 14}
  14. La Vie en Rose (2007, 80th) – $37,418 ($9,935,209 total) {week 17}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, 80th) – $8,565,183 ($52,466,521 total)
  2. Eastern Promises (2007, 80th) – $7,871,788 ($8,987,305 total)
  3. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, 80th) – $3,995,705 ($306,350,910 total)
  4. Across the Universe (2007, 80th) – $2,713,639 ($4,029,375 total)
  5. Transformers (2007, 80th) – $1,997,849 ($436,197,333 total)
  6. In the Valley of Elah (2007, 80th) – $1,762,200 ($2,015,584 total)
  7. Ratatouille (2007, 80th) – $501,074 ($282,426,632 total)
  8. Into the Wild (2007, 80th) – $295,502 ($295,502 total)
  9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, 80th) – $205,605 ($205,605 total)
  10. Once (2007, 80th) – $197,228 ($12,417,239 total)
  11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007, 80th) – $167,350 ($430,236,359 total)
  12. No End in Sight (2007, 80th) – $53,787 ($1,859,757 total)
  13. Sicko (2007, 80th) – $53,696 ($33,962,913 total)
  14. La Vie en Rose (2007, 80th) – $52,048 ($13,819,760 total)

Oscar Details:

  • 3:10 to Yuma (2007, 80th): Original Score, Sound Mixing
  • Across the Universe (2007, 80th): Costume Design
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, 80th): Supporting Actor (Casey Affleck), Cinematography
  • The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, 80th): Film Editing [O], Sound Mixing [O], Sound Film Editing [O]
  • Eastern Promises (2007, 80th): Actor (Viggo Mortensen)
  • In the Valley of Elah (2007, 80th): Actor (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Into the Wild (2007, 80th): Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook), Film Editing
  • No End in Sight (2007, 80th): Documentary Feature
  • Once (2007, 80th): Original Song [O]
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007, 80th): Makeup, Visual Effects
  • Ratatouille (2007, 80th): Animated Feature [O], Original Screenplay, Original Score, Sound Mixing, Sound Film Editing
  • Sicko (2007, 80th): Documentary Feature
  • Transformers (2007, 80th): Sound Mixing, Sound Film Editing, Visual Effects
  • La Vie en Rose (2007, 80th): Actress (Marion Cotillard) [O], Costume Design, Makeup [O]

20 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 20-22, 2002

Weekend Box Office:

  1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002, 75th) – $9,748,969 ($124,052,987 total) {week 23}
  2. Spirited Away (2002, 75th) – $449,839 ($449,839 total) {week 1}
  3. Road to Perdition (2002, 75th) – $390,839 ($103,235,362 total) {week 11}
  4. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, 75th) – $189,572 ($301,765,141 total) {week 19}
  5. Lilo & Stitch (2002, 75th) – $187,410 ($143,327,275 total) {week 14}
  6. Minority Report (2002, 75th) – $143,871 ($131,552,004 total) {week 14}
  7. Elling (2001, 74th) – $12,282 ($299,039 total) {week 17}
  8. Son of the Bride (2001, 74th) – $9,303 ($616,359 total) {week 27}
  9. Monsters, Inc. (2001, 74th) – $8,427 ($255,870,172 total) {week 41}
  10. Promises (2001, 74th) – $1,399 ($211,916 total) {week 28}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002, 75th) – $16,058,112 ($204,335,127 total)
  2. Spirited Away (2002, 75th) – $740,957 ($740,957 total)
  3. Road to Perdition (2002, 75th) – $643,774 ($170,045,166 total)
  4. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, 75th) – $312,255 ($497,055,490 total)
  5. Lilo & Stitch (2002, 75th) – $308,694 ($236,082,964 total)
  6. Minority Report (2002, 75th) – $236,979 ($216,687,208 total)
  7. Elling (2001, 74th) – $20,230 ($492,565 total)
  8. Son of the Bride (2001, 74th) – $15,324 ($1,015,242 total)
  9. Monsters, Inc. (2001, 74th) – $13,881 ($421,459,130 total)
  10. Promises (2001, 74th) – $2,304 ($349,060 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Elling (2001, 74th): Foreign Language Film
  • Lilo & Stitch (2002, 75th): Animated Feature
  • Minority Report (2002, 75th): Sound Film Editing
  • Monsters, Inc. (2001, 74th): Animated Feature, Original Song (If I Didn’t Have You [O]), Original Score, Sound Film Editing
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002, 75th): Original Screenplay
  • Promises (2001, 74th): Documentary Feature
  • Road to Perdition (2002, 75th): Supporting Actor (Paul Newman), Original Score, Cinematography [O], Art Direction, Sound, Sound Film Editing
  • Son of the Bride (2001, 74th): Foreign Language Film
  • Spirited Away (2002, 75th): Animated Feature [O]
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, 75th): Visual Effects

25 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 19-21, 1997

Weekend Box Office:

  1. In & Out (1997, 70th) – $15,019,821 ($15,019,821 total) {week 1}
  2. L.A. Confidential (1997, 70th) – $5,211,198 ($5,211,198 total) {week 1}
  3. The Full Monty (1997, 70th) – $3,022,096 ($10,254,090 total) {week 6}
  4. Air Force One (1997, 70th) – $2,073,198 ($166,093,896 total) {week 9}
  5. Men in Black (1997, 70th) – $1,208,375 ($240,942,775 total) {week 12}
  6. Con Air (1997, 70th) – $154,258 ($100,927,613 total) {week 16}
  7. The Long Way Home (1997, 70th) – $10,606 ($13,258 total) {week 1}
  8. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, 70th) – $184,795 ($228,709,214 total) {week 18}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. In & Out (1997, 70th) – $31,315,836 ($31,315,836 total)
  2. L.A. Confidential (1997, 70th) – $10,865,178 ($10,865,178 total)
  3. The Full Monty (1997, 70th) – $6,300,971 ($21,379,443 total)
  4. Air Force One (1997, 70th) – $4,322,550 ($346,300,345 total)
  5. Men in Black (1997, 70th) – $2,519,422 ($502,357,812 total)
  6. Con Air (1997, 70th) – $321,623 ($210,430,775 total)
  7. The Long Way Home (1997, 70th) – $22,113 ($27,642 total)
  8. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, 70th) – $385,292 ($476,851,237 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Air Force One (1997, 70th): Film Editing, Sound
  • Con Air (1997, 70th): Original Song (“How Do I Live”), Sound
  • The Full Monty (1997, 70th): Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Original Musical or Comedy Score [O]
  • In & Out (1997, 70th): Supporting Actress (Joan Cusack)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997, 70th): Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger) [O], Adapted Screenplay [O], Original Dramatic Score, Film Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound
  • The Long Way Home (1997, 70th): Documentary Feature [O]
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, 70th): Visual Effects
  • Men in Black (1997, 70th): Original Musical or Comedy Score, Art Direction, Makeup [O]

30 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 18-20, 1992

Weekend Box Office:

  1. Husbands and Wives (1992, 65th) – $3,520,550 ($3,520,550 total) {week 1}
  2. Unforgiven (1992, 65th) – $1,822,173 ($70,256,353 total) {week 7}
  3. Death Becomes Her (1992, 65th) – $1,122,990 ($54,230,665 total) {week 8}
  4. Batman Returns (1992, 65th) – $454,551 ($160,954,135 total) {week 14}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. Husbands and Wives (1992, 65th) – $8,118,473 ($8,118,473 total)
  2. Unforgiven (1992, 65th) – $4,201,975 ($162,012,843 total)
  3. Death Becomes Her (1992, 65th) – $2,589,642 ($125,057,220 total)
  4. Batman Returns (1992, 65th) – $1,048,206 ($371,164,114 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Batman Returns (1992, 65th): Makeup, Visual Effects
  • Death Becomes Her (1992, 65th): Visual Effects [O]
  • Husbands and Wives (1992, 65th): Supporting Actress (Judy Davis), Original Screenplay
  • Unforgiven (1992, 65th): Picture [O], Director [O], Actor (Clint Eastwood), Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) [O], Original Screenplay, Film Editing [O], Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound

35 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 18-20, 1987

Weekend Box Office:

  1. Fatal Attraction (1987, 60th) – $7,602,740 ($7,602,740 total) {week 1}
  2. Dirty Dancing (1987, 60th) – $2,471,555 ($24,469,975 total) {week 5}
  3. Robocop (1987, 60th) – $696,944 ($49,715,016 total) {week 10}
  4. Maurice (1987, 60th) – $49,278 ($49,278 total) {week 1}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. Fatal Attraction (1987, 60th) – $18,608,241 ($18,608,241 total)
  2. Dirty Dancing (1987, 60th) – $6,049,305 ($59,891,985 total)
  3. Robocop (1987, 60th) – $1,705,819 ($121,680,998 total)
  4. Maurice (1987, 60th) – $120,611 ($120,611 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Dirty Dancing (1987, 60th): Original Song (“(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”) [O]
  • Fatal Attraction (1987, 60th): Picture, Director, Actress (Glenn Close), Supporting Actress (Anne Archer), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing
  • Maurice (1987, 60th): Costume Design
  • Robocop (1987, 60th): Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects [O]

40 Years Ago: The Weekend of Sep. 17-19, 1982

Weekend Box Office:

  1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, 55th) – $4,261,887 ($250,600,981 total) {week 15}
  2. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, 55th) – $4,061,544 ($56,435,409 total) {week 8}
  3. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, 55th) – $1,462,555 ($65,204,639 total) {week 9}
  4. Rocky III (1982, 55th) – $972,703 ($113,928,936 total) {week 17}
  5. The World According to Garp (1982, 55th) – $900,466 ($25,637,018 total) {week 9}
  6. Poltergeist (1982, 55th) – $738,292 ($67,938,442 total) {week 16}
  7. Annie (1982, 55th) – $524,591 ($54,592,231 total) {week 18}
  8. Blade Runner (1982, 55th) – $117,442 ($27,018,472 total) {week 13}

Weekend Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation):

  1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, 55th) – $13,872,877 ($815,731,765 total)
  2. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, 55th) – $13,220,740 ($183,703,015 total)
  3. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, 55th) – $4,760,766 ($212,247,753 total)
  4. Rocky III (1982, 55th) – $3,166,248 ($370,850,312 total)
  5. The World According to Garp (1982, 55th) – $2,931,109 ($83,451,110 total)
  6. Poltergeist (1982, 55th) – $2,403,216 ($221,146,561 total)
  7. Annie (1982, 55th) – $1,707,597 ($177,703,283 total)
  8. Blade Runner (1982, 55th) – $382,286 ($87,947,883 total)

Oscar Details:

  • Annie (1982, 55th): Original Song Score, Art Direction
  • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, 55th): Supporting Actor (Charles Durning)
  • Blade Runner (1982, 55th): Art Direction, Visual Effects
  • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, 55th): Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Original Score [O], Film Editing, Cinematography, Sound [O], Sound Effects [O], Visual Effects [O]
  • An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, 55th): Actress (Debra Winger), Supporting Actor (Louis Gossett Jr) [O], Original Screenplay, Original Song (“Up Where We Belong”) [O], Original Score, Film Editing
  • Poltergeist (1982, 55th): Original Score, Sound Film Editing, Visual Effects
  • Rocky III (1982, 55th): Original Song (“Eye of the Tiger”)
  • The World According to Garp (1982, 55th): Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Supporting Actress (Glenn Close)

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