Predict This Year’s Highest Grossing Oscar Contender

It’s probably a no-brainer that Avatar is take that title home so perhaps it isn’t worth doing an actual contest on this, but I really like the way Loyal has laid it all out at the Corner Cinema, showing that the lowest grossing of the nominated five has won in a long while. But the highest grossing only sometimes wins.

Of the possibilities, which do you think will crack $100 mil? Obviously cracking that number means different things to different productions. A film like Precious getting anywhere near that would be extraordinary circumstances. But these films, I expected, will do at least $100:

1. Avatar
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. The Lovely Bones
4. Nine
5. Invictus
6. Up in the Air (or very close to it)

Which films have already gotten there? (according to Box Office Mojo)

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $300 mil
2. Up, a staggering $293 mil
3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $121 mil
4. Inglourious Basterds $119 mil
5. District 9 $115 mil

And then the squeakers:

1. Public Enemies $97 mil
2. Julie & Julia $93 mil
3. Coraline $75 mil
4. Where the Wild Things Are $69