The Oscar Best Picture Nominees By The Numbers

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by Oliver Lyttelton
February 8, 2013 11:48 AM
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"Les Miserables"
Budget: $61 million
World Premiere Date: December 5th 2012 (London)
U.S. Release Date: December 25th 2012
Initial Theatre Count: 2814
Opening Weekend: $27,281,735
U.S. Gross To Date: $142,197,130
International Gross To Date: $198,400,000
Worldwide Gross To Date: $340,597,130
Percentage of Total Made In The US: 41.7%
Widest Release: 2927
Best Screen Average: $9,695
Box office change after Oscar nominations announced: -39.8%
Percentage of Total Gross Made After Oscar Nominations Announced: 27%
Metacritic Score: 63
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 70
IMDB Score: 7.9
Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review: "Also, as I know nothing of French history of that period, I don't understand what the "siege" was about either."
Total Oscar Nominations: 8
Total Awards Nominations: 118
Total Awards Wins: 31
Previous Films By Director: 3
Previous Oscar Wins For Director: 1 (Best Director, "The King's Speech")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director: 1
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director's Films: 12
Previous Oscar Nominations For Nominated Cast Members: 1 (Anne Hathaway, Best Actress, "Rachel Getting Married")
Credited Roles: 206
Number Of Credited Writers: 3
Number Of Credited Producers: 12
Running Time: 158 mins
Aspect Ratio: 1.85: 1
Playlist Grade: C
Number Of Playlist Stories About Film: 70
Google Results For Film's Title: 101,000,000
Grade From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: -1
Key Comment From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: "The movie's strong Christian worldview showing God's transformational powers is brilliantly done in a brilliant way."

"Life Of Pi"
Budget: $120 million
World Premiere Date: September 28th 2012 (NYFF)
U.S. Release Date: November 21st 2012
Initial Theatre Count: 2927
Opening Weekend: $22,451,514
U.S. Gross To Date: $106,613,388
International Gross To Date: $442,400,000
Worldwide Gross To Date: $549,013,388
Percentage of Total Made In The US: 19.4%
Widest Release: 2,946
Best Screen Average: $7,670
Box office change after Oscar nominations announced: -3.9% (but up 24% the week after,when it added an extra 500 screens)
Percentage of Total Gross Made After Oscar Nominations Announced: 15%
Metacritic Score: 79
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88
IMDB Score: 8.2
Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review: "I have a history of missing the point of these artistic movies, but I don't understand how lying about what happened when you got shipwrecked makes anyone closer to God"
Total Oscar Nominations: 11
Total Awards Nominations: 92
Total Awards Wins: 24
Previous Films By Director: 12
Previous Oscar Wins For Director: 1 (Best Director, "Brokeback Mountain")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director: 3 (Best Picture & Director, "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon," Best Director, "Brokeback Mountain")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director's Films: 27
Previous Oscar Nominations For Nominated Cast Members: 0
Credited Roles: 41
Number Of Credited Writers: 1
Number Of Credited Producers: 11
Running Time: 127 mins
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1/1.85:1/2.00:1/2.35:1
Playlist Grade: A-
Number Of Playlist Stories About Film: 52
Google Results For Film's Title: 181,000,000
Grade From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: -2
Key Comment From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: "There are good points directing to Christianity, but the underlying premise is that every religion leads to heaven... Strong caution is advised for the movie's mixed messages."

"Lincoln"
Budget: $65 million
World Premiere Date: October 8th 2012 (NYFF)
U.S. Release Date: November 9th 2012
Initial Theatre Count: 11
Opening Weekend: $944,308
U.S. Gross To Date: $171,504,042
International Gross To Date: $32,500,000
Worldwide Gross To Date: $204,004,042
Percentage of Total Made In The US: 84.1%
Widest Release: 2,293
Best Screen Average: $85,846
Box office change after Oscar nominations announced: +17%
Percentage of Total Gross Made After Oscar Nominations Announced: 16%
Metacritic Score: 86
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90
IMDB Score: 7.8
Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review: "Instead of being disgusted by thoughtless behavior, characters are constantly caught up in admiration of it. Instead of avoiding self-absorbed, arrogant, belittling, self-diluted, self-righteous mannerisms from them, the audience is forced deep into it, knowing that no one in a Spielberg movie will ever have the good sense to call it out."
Total Oscar Nominations: 12
Total Awards Nominations: 151
Total Awards Wins: 47
Previous Films By Director: 27
Previous Oscar Wins For Director: 4 (Irving G. Thalberg Award, Best Picture & Director, "Schindler's List," Best Director, "Saving Private Ryan")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director: 13
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director's Films: 112
Previous Oscar Nominations For Nominated Cast Members: 9 (Daniel Day Lewis won for "My Left Foot" and "There Will Be Blood," nominated for "In The Name Of The Father" and "Gangs Of New York," Tommy Lee Jones won for "The Fugitive," nominated for "JFK" and "In The Valley Of Elah," Sally Field won for "Norma Rae" and "Places in the Heart")
Credited Roles: 134
Number Of Credited Writers: 1
Number Of Credited Producers: 7
Running Time: 150 mins
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Playlist Grade: C
Number Of Playlist Stories About Film: 69
Google Results For Film's Title: 575,000,000
Grade From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: -2
Key Comment From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: "In the end, however, there's a politically correct scene of the rabble-rousing Stevens having a quiet moment in bed with the black woman who served as his housekeeper for many years"

"Silver Linings Playbook"
Budget: $21 million
World Premiere Date: September 8th 2012 (TIFF)
U.S. Release Date: November 16th 2012
Initial Theatre Count: 16
Opening Weekend: $443,003
U.S. Gross To Date: $82,331,474
International Gross To Date: $29,966,120
Worldwide Gross To Date: $112,297,594
Percentage of Total Made In The US: 73.3%
Widest Release: 2,809
Best Screen Average: $27,688
Box office change after Oscar nominations announced: +38.8%
Percentage of Total Gross Made After Oscar Nominations Announced: 58%
Metacritic Score: 81
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92
IMDB Score: 8.1
Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review: "In every scene, there was nothing but tension and conflict. I kept waiting for it to turn around, for the "good parts" to show up, but they never did."
Total Oscar Nominations: 8
Total Awards Nominations: 106
Total Awards Wins: 40
Previous Films By Director: 6
Previous Oscar Wins For Director: 0
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director: 1 (Best Director, "The Fighter")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director's Films: 7
Previous Oscar Nominations For Nominated Cast Members: 8 (Jennifer Lawrence nominated for "Winter's Bone," Jacki Weaver nominated for "Animal Kingom," Robert De Niro won for 'The Godfather Part II" and "Raging Bull," nominated for "Taxi Driver," "The Deer Hunter," "Awakenings," "Cape Fear')
Credited Roles: 35
Number Of Credited Writers: 1
Number Of Credited Producers: 9
Running Time: 122 mins
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Playlist Grade: A
Number Of Playlist Stories About Film: 50
Google Results For Film's Title: 89,800,000
Grade From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: -3
Key Comment From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: "There are also many references to luck, lucky charms 'reading the signs' and gambling. Extreme caution is therefore advised, especially for sensitive viewers."

"Zero Dark Thirty"
Budget: $40 million
World Premiere Date: December 19th 2012
U.S. Release Date: December 19th 2012
Initial Theatre Count: 5
Opening Weekend: $417,150
U.S. Gross To Date: $78,647,876
International Gross To Date: $13,000,000
Worldwide Gross To Date: $91,647,876
Percentage of Total Made In The US: 85%
Widest Release: 2,946
Best Screen Average: $83,430
Box office change after Oscar nominations announced: +807%
Percentage of Total Gross Made After Oscar Nominations Announced: 95%
Metacritic Score: 95
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94
IMDB Score: 7.7
Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review: "After Homeland and the manic Carrie and this with the crazy Maya, I would expect lots of off the wall women thinking they were ideal candidates to be front-line CIA officers in the fight against terrorism. A missed opportunity to tell a stirring tale, possibly because a woman director wanted to make a feminist statement"
Total Oscar Nominations: 5
Total Awards Nominations: 120
Total Awards Wins: 56
Previous Films By Director: 8
Previous Oscar Wins For Director: 2 (Best Picture & Director, "The Hurt Locker")
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director: 2
Previous Oscar Nominations For Director's Films: 9
Previous Oscar Nominations For Nominated Cast Members: 1 (Jessica Chastain, nominated for "The Help")
Credited Roles: 90
Number Of Credited Writers: 1
Number Of Credited Producers: 11
Running Time: 157 mins
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Playlist Grade: B+
Number Of Playlist Stories About Film: 89
Google Results For Film's Title: 131, 000,000
Grade From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: -2
Key Comment From Moralistic Reviews Site Movieguide.org: "However, you never see the villain in 'Zero Dark Thirty.' So the villain is always behind the shadows. A great hero needs a great villain."

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11 Comments

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josh | February 9, 2013 5:56 AMReply

this article could really use a graph that makes all the stats easily comparable..
ap | February 8, 2013 5:50 PMReply

Why so many aspect ratios for life of pi??
And this movieguide.org.... truly ridiculous
Tom | February 8, 2013 4:33 PMReply

"In every scene, there was nothing but tension and conflict. I kept waiting for it to turn around, for the 'good parts' to show up, but they never did." LOL
Jamie | February 8, 2013 1:59 PMReply

If the moralistic reviews site is going to be included, how about something to balance the total "Christian" slant since there are a few other ethical and religious perspectives in the world.
Liz | February 8, 2013 3:49 PM

Er, isn't that kind of the point, Jamie? That there are many ways to look at a movie, but that silly website insists on filtering everything through a single perspective? Did you think that the Playlist was taking their side?
Oliver Lyttelton | February 8, 2013 3:27 PM

Guys, as Kathryn Bigelow is fond of saying, depiction does not equal endorsement. In this case, quite the reverse.
Vincent | February 8, 2013 1:59 PMReply

The "key" comments from that moralistic website only pissed me off to no end.
john | February 8, 2013 1:22 PMReply

The addition of the "Key Comment From Negative IMDB Review" was a nice touch. gave me some good chuckles. thanks!
Melissa | February 8, 2013 12:25 PMReply

What is the point of including "key" negative comments from IMDb? I like that website as a whole, but many of the comments written on there are authored by trollish morons with low intelligence and suspect taste in movies and certainly don't merit being repeated.
yep | February 8, 2013 2:46 PM

TP, you are correct.
TimParker | February 8, 2013 1:46 PM

I agree and I think it's just for laughs as the other comment on here points out. Not actually being used to factor in whether or not deserves to win or whatever.