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Lowest Grossing Oscar Winners in Best Picture History

10. An American in Paris

1951’s An American in Paris managed to take home the award for Best Picture the same year that Casablanca sweept pretty much everything else at the Academy Awards. At the time, the film made $4,531,000 which when adjusted for inflation is just about $41,255,800. The musical spent almost half a million dollars of its budget of $2,724,000 on the climax of the film, a 17-minute ballet dance. Audience attention spans certainly have changed over the years. Even Black Swan didn’t try that.

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