Box-office performance for 10 best-picture Oscar contenders including ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’

Box-office numbers for Oscar best-picture nominees

North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees:

— “Avatar,” 20th Century Fox, nine nominations, $596 million, released Dec. 18

— “The Blind Side,” Warner Bros., two nominations, $238 million, released Nov. 20

— “District 9,” Sony, four nominations, $116 million, released Aug. 14

— “An Education,” Sony Pictures Classics, three nominations, $9 million, released Oct. 9

— “The Hurt Locker,” Summit, nine nominations, $12.7 million, released June 26

— “Inglourious Basterds,” The Weinstein Co., eight nominations, $121 million, released Aug. 21

— “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” Lionsgate, six nominations, $45 million, released Nov. 6

— “A Serious Man,” Focus, two nominations, $9.2 million released Oct. 2

— “Up,” — Disney, five nominations, $293 million, released May 29

— “Up in the Air,” Paramount, six nominations, $73 million, released Dec. 4

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20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures are owned by News Corp.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Focus Features is owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Sony Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner Inc.;