Funny thing about the Academy Awards: Just one little gold stature can change a
tiny art house picture that was made for $5 and crew lunches into a
multimillion-dollar monster. Take last years winner for Best Picture at the
event. The Kings Speech was put together for around $15 million by Bedlam
Productions, See-Saw Films and with funding from the UK Film Council. The
Weinstein Company then put it out and made $414 million on international box
office. It aint exactly exactly the $2.7 billion Avatar made for News Corp .s
(NASDAQ: NWSA ) 20th Century Fox, but thats still a big windfall all thanks to
the hype brought on by one award. The Best Picture competitors for the 84th
Annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday. Whos going to profit for the
win? And the nominees are …
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