2010 Best Picture nominee box office totals

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With 10 Best Picture nominees, four of which are already on DVD, that old reliable, the post-nomination box office bump, may not be as noticeable as it once was. The Hurt Locker is still moving up the DVD sales chart at Amazon.com. Up, Inglourious Basterds, and District 9 will likely move too.

For the film’s still in theaters, including Avatar (the newly crowned highest-grossing domestic release of all-time), things tend to look up, post-nomination. Avatar will likely win the weekend again this week, with Fandango reporting a 45 percent increase in ticket sales for Cameron’s epic after the nomination. What about the others? A Serious Man? An Education? Those are the types of movies that used to gain the most from a Best Picture nomination. Now that they have to compete with more pictures, who knows if that boost will be as big as it once was. If not, that’s even more bad news for specialty films.

Anyway, on to the numbers.

2009/2010 Best Picture Box Office
(totals as of Monday, Feb. 1)

• Avatar (Dec. 18) – $598 million
• The Blind Side (Nov. 2) – $238 million
• An Education (Oct. 9) – $8.7 million
• District 9 (Aug. 14) – $115 million
• The Hurt Locker (June 26) – $12.6 million
• Inglourious Basterds (Aug. 21) – $120 million
• Precious (Nov. 6) – $45.5 million
  
• A Serious Man (Oct. 2) – $9.2 million
• Up (May 29) – $290 million
  
• Up in the Air (Dec. 4) – $73.4 million
  

An here are last year’s nominees with pre- and post- nomination totals.

2008/2009 Best Picture Box Office
(with release dates)

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec. 25)-$105 million/$127 million
• Slumdog Millionaire (Nov. 12)-$45 million/$141 million
• Frost/Nixon (Dec. 5)-$9 million/$18.6 million
• The Reader (Dec. 12)-$8.2 million/$34.2 million
• Milk (Nov. 26)-$21 million/$31.8 million