Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 2012)

Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office. The second 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 chance at this stage of the game. Please let us know if you like our new feature or if you want to see more information and we’ll see what we can do!

This Year: Potential Oscar Nominees Releasing This Weekend

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5 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 26-28, 2007

Weekend Box Office:

Dreamgirls – $6,741,985 ($86,775,468 total) {week 7}
The Pursuit of Happyness – $4,983,325 ($152,929,867 total) {week 7}
Pan’s Labyrinth – $4,774,578 ($16,523,021 total) {week 5}
The Queen – $4,013,052 ($41,254,080 total) {week 18}
The Departed – $3,365,481 ($125,237,852 total) {week 17}
Notes on a Scandal – $2,603,703 ($9,087,135 total) {week 5}
Babel – $2,561,053 ($27,226,241 total) {week 14}
Children of Men – $2,183,195 ($30,909,838 total) {week 5}
Letters from Iwo Jima – $1,867,326 ($5,072,065 total) {week 6}
The Last King of Scotland – $1,674,900 ($7,739,235 total) {week 18}
Blood Diamond – $1,222,485 ($52,640,838 total) {week 8}
Volver – $1,140,304 ($8,889,349 total) {week 13}
Happy Feet – $920,214 ($191,927,188 total) {week 11}
The Good Shepherd – $725,610 ($58,964,680 total) {week 6}
Venus – $343,941 ($715,173 total) {week 6}
Apocalypto – $228,685 ($50,222,634 total) {week 8}
Borat – $224,800 ($127,827,221 total) {week 13}
Little Children – $207,349 ($4,065,149 total) {week 17}
The Curse of the Golden Flower – $135,548 ($6,243,989 total) {week 6}
The Good German – $40,564 ($981,690 total) {week 7}
The Prestige – $28,619 ($53,054,156 total) {week 15}
Little Miss Sunshine – $25,664 ($59,627,909 total) {week 27}
Jesus Camp – $4,987 ($892,136 total) {week 20}
Iraq in Fragments – $4,780 ($81,004 total) {week 10}
The Illusionist – $4,687 ($39,860,550 total) {week 24}

Oscar Details:

Apocalypto: Makeup, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing
Babel: Picture, Supporting Actress (Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi), Director, Original Screenplay, Original Score [O], Editing
Blood Diamond: Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Supporting Actor (Djimon Hounsou), Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing
Borat: Adapted Screenplay
Children of Men: Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography
The Curse of the Golden Flower: Costume Design
The Departed: Picture [O], Director [O], Supporting Actor (Mark Wahlberg), Adapted Screenplay [O], Editing
Dreamgirls: Supporting Actor (Eddie Murphy), Supporting Actress (Jennifer Hudson) [O], Original Song (“Listen”, “Love You I Do”, “Patience”), Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound [O]
The Good German: Original Score
The Good Shepherd: Art Direction
Happy Feet: Animated Feature [O]
The Illusionist: Cinematography
Iraq in Fragments: Documentary Feature
Jesus Camp: Documentary Feature
The Last King of Scotland: Actor (Forest Whitaker [O])
Letters from Iwo Jima: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Sound Editing [O]
Little Children: Actress (Kate Winslet), Supporting Actor (Jackie Earle Haley), Adapted Screenplay
Little Miss Sunshine: Picture, Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin [O]), Supporting Actress (Abigail Breslin), Original Screenplay [O]
Notes on a Scandal: Actress (Judi Dench), Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score
Pan’s Labyrinth: Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography [O], Art Direction [O], Makeup [O], Foreign Language Film
The Prestige: Cinematography, Art Direction
The Pursuit of Happyness: Actor (Will Smith)
The Queen: Picture, Director, Actress (Helen Mirren [O]), Original Screenplay, Original Score, Costume Design
Venus: Actor (Peter O’Toole)
Volver: Actress (Penelope Cruz)

10 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 25-27, 2002

Weekend Box Office:

Black Hawn Down – $17,012,268 ($58,893,074 total) {week 5}
A Beautiful Mind – $11,531,735 ($92,887,746 total) {week 6}
I Am Sam – $8,315,581 ($8,506,955 total) {week 5}
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – $7,803,075 ($258,449,272 total) {week 6}
Gosford Park – $2,782,555 ($15,980,889 total) {week 5}
In the Bedroom – $1,941,677 ($14,449,092 total) {week 10}
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius – $1,777,704 ($76,221,724 total) {week 6}
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – $1,402,381 ($311,573,984 total) {week 11}
Amelie – $900,775 ($22,389,459 total) {week 13}
Monsters, Inc. – $555,368 ($250,676,747 total) {week 13}
Ali – $324,270 ($57,880,790 total) {week 5}
Monster’s Ball – $193,982 ($1,079,270 total) {week 5}
Mulholland Drive – $88,160 ($6,421,778 total) {week 16}
The Man Who Wasn’t There – $46,497 ($7,319,414 total) {week 13}
No Man’s Land – $26,363 ($420,140 total) {week 8}
Moulin Rouge! – $19,500 ($57,135,166 total) {week 37}

Oscar Details:

Ali: Actor (Will Smith), Supporting Actor (Jon Voight)
Amelie: Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound, Foreign Language Film
A Beautiful Mind: Picture [O], Director [O], Actor (Russell Crowe), Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly) [O], Adapted Screenplay [O], Original Score, Editing, Makeup
Black Hawn Down: Director, Editing [O], Cinematography, Sound [O]
Gosford Park: Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith), Original Screenplay [O], Art Direction, Costume Design
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Original Score, Art Direction, Costume Design
I Am Sam: Actor (Sean Penn)
In the Bedroom: Picture, Actor (Tom Wilkinson), Actress (Sissy Spacek), Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei), Adapted Screenplay
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Animated Feature
The Man Who Wasn’t There: Cinematography
Monster’s Ball: Actress (Halle Berry) [O], Original Screenplay
Monsters, Inc.: Animated Feature, Original Song (If I Didn’t Have You [O]), Original Score, Sound Editing
Moulin Rouge!: Picture, Actress (Nicole Kidman), Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction [O], Costume Design [O], Makeup, Sound
Mulholland Drive: Director
No Man’s Land: Foreign Language Film
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Ian McKellen), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score [O], Original Song (“May It Be”), Editing, Cinematography [O], Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup [O], Sound, Visual Effects [O]

15 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 24-26, 1997

Weekend Box Office:

Jerry Maguire – $5,518,727 ($109,785,743 total) {week 7}
Evita – $5,415,891 ($30,465,756 total) {week 5}
The People vs. Larry Flynt – $2,101,914 ($15,912,974 total) {week 5}
The English Patient – $1,915,342 ($36,674,728 total) {week 11}
Shine – $1,441,744 ($12,634,654 total) {week 9}
One Fine Day – $1,108,752 ($42,619,929 total) {week 6}
The Portrait of a Lady – $569,997 ($2,911,061 total) {week 4}
Hamlet – $455,728 ($1,062,899 total) {week 3}
Kolya – $37,795 ($37,795 total) {week 1}

Oscar Details:

The English Patient: Picture [O], Director [O], Actor (Ralph Fiennes), Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas), Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche [O]), Adapted Screenplay, Original Dramatic Score [O], Editing [O], Cinematography [O], Art Direction [O], Costume Design [O], Sound [O]
Evita: Original Song (“You Must Love Me”) [O], Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound
Hamlet: Adapted Screenplay, Drama Score, Art Direction, Costume Design
Jerry Maguire: Picture, Actor (Tom Cruise), Supporting Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) [O], Original Screenplay, Film Editing
Kolya: Foreign Language Film
One Fine Day: Original Song (“For the First Time”)
The People vs. Larry Flynt: Director, Actor (Woody Harrelson)
The Portrait of a Lady: Supporting Actress (Barbara Hershey), Costume Design
Shine: Picture, Director, Actor (Geoffrey Rush) [O], Supporting Actor (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Original Screenplay, Original Dramatic Score, Editing

20 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 24-26, 1992

Weekend Box Office:

Fried Green Tomatoes – $5,235,940 ($7,781,959 total) {week 5}
Grand Canyon – $3,668,638 ($15,682,564 total) {week 5}
Hook – $3,524,010 ($103,185,526 total) {week 7}
JFK – $3,514,815 ($50,248,971 total) {week 6}
The Prince of Tides – $3,442,789 ($52,396,029 total) {week 5}
Beauty and the Beast – $3,255,721 ($99,234,492 total) {week 11}
Bugsy – $1,700,903 ($36,619,664 total) {week 7}
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – $1,014,945 ($68,860,242 total) {week 8}

Oscar Details:

Beauty and the Beast: Picture, Original Score [O], Original Song (“Be Our Guest”, “Beauty and the Beast” [O], “Belle”), Sound
Bugsy: Picture, Director, Actor (Warren Beatty), Supporting Actor (Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley), Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Art Direction [O], Costume Design [O]
Fried Green Tomatoes: Supporting Actress (Jessica Tandy), Adapted Screenplay
Grand Canyon: Original Screenplay
Hook: Original Song (“When You’re Alone”), Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup, Visual Effects
JFK: Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Editing [O], Cinematography [O], Sound
The Prince of Tides: Picture, Actor (Nick Nolte), Supporting Actress (Kate Nelligan), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Art Direction
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Original Score, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing

25 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 23-25, 1987

Weekend Box Office:

Platoon – $3,290,933 ($16,220,910 total) {week 6}
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – $2,580,494 ($96,419,535 total) {week 10}
Crocodile Dundee – $2,567,070 ($135,990,541 total) {week 18}
The Mission – $1,172,906 ($8,254,679 total) {week 9}

Oscar Details:

Crocodile Dundee: Original Screenplay
The Mission: Picture, Director, Original Score, Editing, Cinematography [O], Art Direction, Costume Design
Platoon: Picture [O], Director [O], Supporting Actor (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe), Original Screenplay, Editing [O], Cinematography, Sound [O]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Original Score, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing

30 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 22-24, 1982

Weekend Box Office:

On Golden Pond – $3,853,902 ($4,933,957 total) {week 8}
Absence of Malice – $2,097,019 ($27,469,767 total) {week 10}
Raiders of the Lost Ark – $1,788,556 ($183,912,000 total) {week 7}
Reds – $122,033 ($25,523,000 total) {week 6}
Ragtime – $851,000 ($13,835,000 total) {week 6}
Arthur – $359,415 ($81,344,631 total) {week 4}
Chariots of Fire – $259,453 ($5,215,249 total) {week 6}

Oscar Details:

Absence of Malice: Actor (Paul Newman), Supporting Actress (Melinda Dillon), Original Screenplay
Arthur: Actor (Dudley Moore), Supporting Actor (John Gielgud) [O], Original Screenplay, Original Song (“Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)”) [O]
Chariots of Fire: Picture [O], Director, Supporting Actor (Ian Holm), Original Screenplay [O], Original Score [O], Editing, Costume Design [O]
On Golden Pond: Picture, Director, Actor (Henry Fonda) [O], Actress (Katharine Hepburn) [O], Supporting Actress (Jane Fonda), Adapted Screenplay [O], Original Score, Editing, Cinematography, Sound
Ragtime: Supporting Actor (Howard E Rollins Jr), Supporting Actress (Elizabeth McGovern), Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song (“One More Hour”), Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Picture, Director, Original Score, Editing [O], Cinematography, Art Direction [O], Sound [O], Sound Effects Editing [O], Visual Effects [O]
Reds: Picture, Director [O], Actor (Warren Beatty), Actress (Diane Keaton), Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson), Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton) [O], Original Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography [O], Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound