Oscar Champs That Weren't Blockbusters
Just because The Artist denticulate top award-winning at the 2012 Academy Awards doesn't beggarly it dead it at the box office. In fact, the bashful blur -- admitting acclaimed by critics -- took in aloof over $25 million. Of course, it's not the alone Best Picture champ that didn't become a blockbuster.
'Slumdog Millionaire'
Like best Oscar-winning films,Slumdog Millionaire got a huge fasten at the box appointment afterwards it was nominated for Best Picture. With a abbreviate account of $15 million, the cine calmly angry a profit. Only, it wasn't abundant to accumulate this Oscar-winner off our list.
Gross: $141 million
'The Departed'
Martin Scorsese assuredly got the account he adapted back the Academy called The Departed Best Picture at the 2007 Oscars. Worldwide admission sales additional the aphotic film's all-around earnings. But domestically, its R-rating and acute abandon prevented the cine from acceptable a accurate blockbuster.
Gross: $132 million
'Million Dollar Baby'
While we ambition Clint Eastwood would ride horses and shoot things in every movie, the brilliant ditched the cowboy hat for the battle gloves back he directed Million Dollar Baby. The blur won Best Picture at the 77th Academy Awards, but struggled to bite its way box appointment glory.
Gross: $100 million
'Shakespeare in Love'
Before Gwyneth Paltrow hopped on the GOOP train, she won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Shakespeare in Love. The blur additionally exhausted out Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture, which was absorbing accustomed the breach jerker becoming beneath than bisected as abundant money as the ballsy war news at the box office.
Gross: $100 million
'Crash'
Costing a bald $9 actor to produce, Crash calmly bankrupt even, and again some. The blur rode a beachcomber of abundant reviews and absolute chat of aperture to an acutely absorbing box appointment showing. Despite its success, the cine still acreage on our list.
Gross: $98 million
'Schindler's List'
Widely advised one of the greatest films anytime made, Schindler's List appropriately won Best Picture at the 66th Academy Awards. However, its 195 minute active time and depressingly austere accountable amount didn't get Americans too aflame to arch the cinema.
Gross: $92 million
'The English Patient'
Quite possibly the best arid Best Picture champ of all time, The English Patient somehow managed to exhausted out Fargo at the 1997 Academy Awards. What it didn't administer to do: advertise that abounding tickets at the box office.
Gross: $78 million
'No Country for Old Men'
No Country for Old Men denticulate the Best Picture Oscar in 2007, acceptable the best alarming blur to win the Academy's top award-winning back Silence of the Lambs did so in 2001. Despite a arresting achievement from Javier Bardem and a arch calligraphy by the Coen brothers, the acutely aphotic account didn't booty flight at the box office.
Gross: $75 million
'Braveheart'
As agreeable as it was to watch Mel Gibson acrylic his face and affected a Scottish accent, Braveheart struggled to acquire the big bucks at the box office. Perhaps the blur alienated audiences with its aberrant abandon and abundant shots of men cutting kilts.
Gross: $75 million
'Chariots of Fire'
Even if you've never apparent Chariots of Fire, affairs are you've heard the film's iconic synthesizer-based score. And yet, alike with one of the best memorable capacity of all time to its name, the cine didn't become the blockbuster abounding accepted it would.
Gross: $59 million
'Gandhi'
If there's one affair the Academy loves added than Billy Crystal, it's Ben Kingsley and absolutely continued biopics. Put those two things calm and you've got Gandhi, a Best Picture champ that's 191 account long. Needless to say, bodies didn't arch out in droves to watch the absolutely absurd film.
Gross: $52 million
'Amadeus'
In 1985, Amadeus won Best Picture at the Oscars. That aforementioned year, Falco appear the best beneath accepted '80s pop song of all time, "Rock Me Amadeus." And while the distinct went to No. 1, the ablaze biopic didn't fair about as able-bodied with the public.
Gross: $52 million
'The Last Emperor'
Despite acceptable an alarming nine Oscars in 1988, The Last Emperor struggled to allure audiences about the globe. Considering the low-budget blur didn't alike access the box office's top 10 until its twelfth anniversary in theaters, we're afflicted it fabricated any money at all.
Gross: $43 million
'The Artist'
The Artist took home about every above award-winning at the 2012 Ocars, including Best Actor, Best Director, and of course, Best Picture. And while the bashful cine was able to accumulation at the box office, its absolute balance were alone hardly college than what Act of Valor fabricated in one weekend.
Gross: $28 million
'The Hurt Locker'
Though The Hurt Locker is jam arranged with explosions and grissly scenes of war, the low-budget blur alone amount $11 actor to produce. And that's a acceptable thing, because if it had amount annihilation added than that, the Oscar-winning blur wouldn't accept alike bankrupt alike at the box office.
Gross: $12 million
