Every Best Picture Winner's Budget vs Box Office (1975-2025)

A movie about a fish man having sex with a woman made ten times its budget. A billion-dollar franchise winner spent years in lawsuits over who actually got paid. And the cheapest Best Picture ever made cost just one and a half million dollars. I went through every single Best Picture winner from the last fifty years and compared what they cost to what they made at the box office. You might also like: 15 Movies That Flopped So Hard They Were PULLED From Theaters    • 15 Movies That Flopped So Hard They Were P...   February 2026's Biggest Box Office Bombs (7 Flops in a Row!)    • February 2026's Biggest Box Office Bombs (...   0:00 — Intro 0:13 — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 1:19 — Rocky (1976) 1:23 — Annie Hall (1977) 2:25 — The Deer Hunter (1978) 3:32 — Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 4:44 — Ordinary People (1980) 5:55 — Chariots of Fire (1981) 6:41 — Gandhi (1982) 7:36 — Terms of Endearment (1983) 8:30 — Amadeus (1984) 9:23 — Out of Africa (1985) 10:43 — Platoon (1986) 11:56 — The Last Emperor (1987) 12:56 — Rain Man (1988) 14:13 — Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 15:31 — Dances With Wolves (1990) 16:36 — The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 17:47 — Unforgiven (1992) 18:41 — Schindler's List (1993) 19:59 — Forrest Gump (1994) 20:28 — Braveheart (1995) 21:40 — The English Patient (1996) 23:17 — Titanic (1997) 24:16 — Shakespeare in Love (1998) 25:54 — American Beauty (1999) 27:13 — Gladiator (2000) 28:34 — A Beautiful Mind (2001) 29:52 — Chicago (2002) 31:05 — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 32:22 — Million Dollar Baby (2004) 33:53 — Crash (2005) 35:18 — The Departed (2006) 36:14 — No Country for Old Men (2007) 37:39 — Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 38:29 — The Hurt Locker (2009) 39:58 — The King's Speech (2010) 41:12 — The Artist (2011) 42:21 — Argo (2012) 43:45 — 12 Years a Slave (2013) 44:42 — Birdman (2014) 45:55 — Spotlight (2015) 46:52 — Moonlight (2016) 47:42 — The Shape of Water (2017) 48:46 — Green Book (2018) 49:48 — Parasite (2019) 50:56 — Nomadland (2020) 51:59 — CODA (2021) 52:51 — Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 54:04 — Oppenheimer (2023) 55:14 — Anora (2024) Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit that bell icon for more! #TheOscars #AcademyAwards #BestPicture #OscarWinners #OscarWinnersBoxOffice