No matter which film takes home Best Picture Sunday night, that title will be the lowest grossing ever in Oscar history.According to Comscore, Kathryn Bigelow’s 2009 title The Hurt Locker stands as the lowest-grossing Best Picture Oscar winner at the domestic B.O.
with $17M. That title will likely be upset this Sunday by Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which Searchlight didn’t report grosses on during its run, but industry estimates figure has grossed around $2.5M.
An Oscar Best Picture win could easily push Nomadland to $3M.Even if the Best Picture voting math throws Nomadland off from the big prize, the other noms have also posted small results as well including Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman ($6.4M), Warner Bros.’ Judas and the Black
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