Tally ho!

THE JOKER: It’s not about money. It’s about sending a message…

Well, ok. It’s a little bit about the money.

Last year the sweet spot between ‘oh you poor thing’ and ‘stop showing off’ was around $40 mil. The record of the past 12 years shows that an Oscar winner can be rich or poor. But as you can see from the comparison charts on the next page, rich never hurts.

*Worth noting the screen count, from low to high:
144 screens: The Wrestler
153 screens: Frost/Nixon
171 screens: Revolutionary Road
223 screens: Milk
417 screens: The Reader
582 screens: Slumdog
725 screens: Doubt
2,223 screens: Benjamin Button
2,972 screens: Gran Torino