Where or how you got the data: Box Office Comparison for Best Picture Oscar Winners
The tool used to generate the visual: Google Sheets and Data Studio

Note that dollar figures are not adjusted for inflation.

Edit: inflation disclaimer

La la Land was a very low-budget movie!

I assume these numbers are adjusted for inflation? 2022 dollars? You should make a note of it on the chart in the future.

Really? $25M for Rain Man? They travel around for a bit and there are some exotic cars, but I'm struggling to figure out why it cost that much compared to other films with heavy/complex SFX and such. Either there was bad financial management involved or Tom/Dustin really had a payday.

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They are not adjusted - I will be sure to do that in the future! I can do a second version even.

Good call.

Remember when movies everybody liked won Oscars? Like Gladiator and LOTR and not this obscure shit nobody has heard of?

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