The 5 Highest Grossing Best Picture Oscar Winners (Adjusted By Inflation)

Next Sunday, February 22, people from all over the world will be watching the 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Much expectation is deposited on who the winner of the best picture prize will be. The nominees are:

·      American Sniper

·      The Imitation Game

·      Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

·      Selma

·      Boyhood

·      The Theory of Everything

·      The Grand Budapest Hotel

·      Whiplash

 

In the past, the winners were, in many occasions, amongst the highest grossing pictures of all times. But, which 5 winning flicks were the highest grossing of all?

Below, a list adjusted by inflationin ticket prices (according to Box Office Mojo).

 

5) The Sting

 

This 1973 movie produced by Universal Studios Inc., an American film studio owned by Comcast Corporation CMCSA CMCSK, grossed $156,000,000 in the U.S. only. Adjusted by ticket price inflation, the total box office collection reaches $739,885,700.

 

4) Ben-Hur

 

This Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) movie grossed $74,000,000 in 1959, which equate to a current $813,400,000.

 

3) Titanic

 

The famed movie that recreated the Titanic trip and catastrophe won the Oscar for best film in 1998. This James Cameron movie broke all kinds of records. Amongst them, we should highlight that it was the first movie to ever gross more than a billion dollars (worldwide), and that it tiedBen-Hur for the most Oscars won by a single film (eleven) and All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations (fourteen).

Domestically, the film grossed $658,672,302, which is equivalent to $1,124,438,100 in 2015.

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2) The Sound of Music

 

21st Century Fox’s FOXA FOX The Sound of Music, premiered in 1965. The movie raised $158,671,368 in the U.S. box office, which equate to a current figure of $1,182,047,600.

 

1) Gone With the Wind

 

This classic MGM movie from 1939 grossed $198,676,459. Adjusted by inflation, the number rises to an astonishing $1,676,970,400. In the 1940 Academy Awards, the flick received thirteen nominations, and won ten prizes (eight competitive, two honorary), including those for Best Picture, Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Vivien Leigh) and Best Supporting Actress. The movie also made Hattie McDaniel,the first African-American to ever win an Academy Award – for Best Supporting Actress.

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