As of Oscar Day, February 22, 2015:
This year’s crop of Best Picture candidates is the lowest grossing since 2011.
However, “American Sniper” is the highest-grossing Oscar nominee since the animated “Toy Story 3,” in 2010.
The Eight Best Picture Nominees in Box-Office Gross:
American Sniper
Budget: $60 million
Release date:
Running time:
Box-office: $319,600,000
Clint Eastwood’s Iraq War drama continued to be the only big success in the group, adding over Oscar weekend $9.6 million to its $319.6 million gross.
Birdman
Budget: $18 million
Release Date:
Running time:
Box-office: $37,733,000
Boyhood
Budget: $4 million
Release date: July 11, 2014
Running time: 166 Minutes
Box-office: $25,295,600
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
