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
The Woman in Black (Wide)
Oscar Potential: Art Direction, Costume Design.
5 Years Ago: The Weekend of Feb. 2-4, 2007
Weekend Box Office:
- Dreamgirls – $4,000,521 ($92,748,249 total) {week 8}
- Pan’s Labyrinth – $3,682,699 ($21,715,849 total) {week 6}
- The Pursuit of Happyness – $2,966,454 ($157,217,102 total) {week 8}
- The Queen – $2,650,134 ($45,461,958 total) {week 19}
- The Departed – $2,287,463 ($128,583,307 total) {week 18}
- Notes on a Scandal – $1,750,593 ($11,748,839 total) {week 6}
- Babel – $1,701,657 ($29,715,747 total) {week 15}
- Letters from Iwo Jima – $1,696,356 ($7,478,563 total) {week 7}
- The Last King of Scotland – $1,268,117 ($9,624,115 total) {week 19}
- Children of Men – $1,123,360 ($32,726,893 total) {week 6}
- Blood Diamond – $871,401 ($53,958,457 total) {week 9}
- Volver – $727,281 ($10,067,816 total) {week 14}
- Happy Feet – $591,291 ($192,708,687 total) {week 12}
- Venus – $374,736 ($1,226,956 total) {week 7}
- The Good Shepherd – $277,920 ($59,462,475 total) {week 7}
- Little Children – $220,306 ($4,374,256 total) {week 18}
- Borat – $157,458 ($128,062,911 total) {week 14}
- Apocalypto – $103,472 ($50,403,817 total) {week 9}
- The Curse of the Golden Flower – $66,822 ($6,366,049 total) {week 7}
- Little Miss Sunshine – $33,421 ($59,675,437 total) {week 28}
- The Good German – $30,693 ($1,032,112 total) {week 8}
- The Prestige – $17,265 ($53,082,743 total) {week 16}
- Iraq in Fragments – $4,480 ($88,903 total) {week 11}
- Jesus Camp – $3,157 ($897,561 total) {week 21}
- The Illusionist – $2,257 ($39,865,785 total) {week 25}
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 Feb. 1-3, 2002
Weekend Box Office:
- Black Hawn Down – $11,112,555 ($75,063,935 total) {week 6}
- A Beautiful Mind – $8,403,690 ($104,502,101 total) {week 7}
- I Am Sam – $6,303,148 ($17,293,331 total) {week 6}
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – $5,704,259 ($266,274,199 total) {week 7}
- Gosford Park – $2,362,403 ($19,288,263 total) {week 6}
- In the Bedroom – $1,827,414 ($16,985,037 total) {week 11}
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius – $1,206,339 ($77,730,692 total) {week 7}
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – $1,010,416 ($312,936,385 total) {week 12}
- Amelie – $780,317 ($23,524,870 total) {week 14}
- Monsters, Inc. – $442,164 ($251,264,540 total) {week 14}
- Monster’s Ball – $314,439 ($1,467,079 total) {week 6}
- Ali – $151,524 ($58,111,170 total) {week 6}
- Mulholland Drive – $81,305 ($6,545,178 total) {week 17}
- The Man Who Wasn’t There – $31,205 ($7,370,096 total) {week 14}
- No Man’s Land – $22,975 ($453,936 total) {week 9}
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
- 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. 31-Feb. 2, 1997
Weekend Box Office:
- Jerry Maguire – $5,183,347 ($116,588,785 total) {week 8}
- Evita – $4,374,631 ($36,750,253 total) {week 6}
- The English Patient – $1,853,099 ($39,205,217 total) {week 12}
- Shine – $1,367,537 ($14,536,416 total) {week 10}
- The People vs. Larry Flynt – $1,165,521 ($17,816,628 total) {week 6}
- One Fine Day – $694,306 ($43,620,819 total) {week 7}
- Hamlet – $417,453 ($1,651,891 total) {week 4}
- Prisoner of the Mountains – $17,205 ($17,205 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
- One Fine Day: Original Song (“For the First Time”)
- The People vs. Larry Flynt: Director, Actor (Woody Harrelson)
- Prisoner of the Mountains: Foreign Language Film
- 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. 31-Feb. 2, 1992
Weekend Box Office:
- Fried Green Tomatoes – $6,675,765 ($16,816,819 total) {week 6}
- Grand Canyon – $3,628,290 ($20,534,475 total) {week 6}
- Beauty and the Beast – $3,276,760 ($103,446,010 total) {week 12}
- Hook – $3,231,360 ($107,260,204 total) {week 8}
- JFK – $3,185,727 ($54,682,068 total) {week 7}
- The Prince of Tides – $3,024,206 ($56,480,546 total) {week 6}
- Bugsy – $1,265,595 ($38,529,049 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
25 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 1987
Weekend Box Office:
- Platoon – $8,352,394 ($26,560,509 total) {week 7}
- Crocodile Dundee – $2,812,319 ($139,790,205 total) {week 19}
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – $2,266,912 ($99,515,943 total) {week 11}
- Radio Days – $1,522,423 ($1,522,423 total) {week 1}
- The Mission – $993,424 ($9,686,424 total) {week 10}
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]
- Radio Days: Original Screenplay, Art Direction
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Original Score, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing
30 Years Ago: The Weekend of Jan. 29-31, 1982
Weekend Box Office:
- On Golden Pond – $5,008,290 ($12,142,484 total) {week 9}
- Absence of Malice – $2,166,098 ($30,331,624 total) {week 11}
- Raiders of the Lost Ark – $1,520,273 ($185,748,792 total) {week 8}
- Reds – $1,147,395 ($26,950,104 total) {week 7}
- Ragtime – $702,905 ($14,751,152 total) {week 7}
- Chariots of Fire – $476,605 ($5,803,579 total) {week 7}
- Arthur – $350,039 ($81,814,525 total) {week 5}
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
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