MA 111 Worksheet 3 1 Read this article from wildcat arizona edu wildlife oscars will the hurt locker be grossly overlooked 1 1224670 printed in the Kentucky Kernel March 8 2010 Will The Hurt Locker be grossly overlooked No one ever said a movie about a bomb squad in Iraq would do booming business And it hasn t If Kathryn Bigelow s war drama The Hurt Locker wins the best picture Oscar Sunday night not only will its producers earn some gold statuettes they ll have the dubious distinction of having made the lowest grossing film to nail the academy s top honor in more than 50 years To date The Hurt Locker has grossed a mere 12 6 million domestically according to BoxOfficeMojo com Even with foreign grosses of 7 3 million tossed in for good measure The Hurt Locker s worldwide box office is still hurting The last time a best picture winner made less was in 1955 when Marty grossed 3 million domestically Adjust Marty s grosses for inflation however and they translate to 23 77 million which still tops The Hurt Locker Not that academy members have been looking at dollar signs in recent years when marking the best picture box on their Oscar ballots The 2005 drama Crash which grossed only 54 6 million domestically was the lowest grossing best picture winner since The Last Emperor in 1987 its U S take was only 44 million And No Country for Old Men which won two years ago topped out at 74 3 million Even 2004 s Million Dollar Baby just barely tipped the 100 million mark Of course a win for The Hurt Locker is hardly a lock It faces stiff competition from Avatar whose victory ironically would make it the highest grossing best picture winner of all time Although Scarlett O Hara might say fiddle dee dee to that Adjust the previous 81 winners grosses for inflation and Gone With the Wind is still the all time champ with a domestic gross of 1 537 billion Even Rhett Butler would give a damn about that 1 Answer the following questions using the Annual CPI table provided from ftp ftp bls gov pub special requests cpi cpiai txt 1 Adjust the gross take for Marty for inflation expressing the result in 2010 dollars and compare to the figure given in the article 2 Adjust the gross takes for Crash The Last Emperor No Country for Old and Million Dollar Baby for inflation 3 Gone with the Wind came out in 1939 Express its gross take in 1939 dollars Why might your number not accurately reflect its gross take in 1939 2 U S Department Of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index All Urban Consumers CPI U U S city average all items 1982 84 100 Year Annual CPI 1913 9 9 1914 10 0 1915 10 1 1916 10 9 1917 12 8 1918 15 1 1919 17 3 1920 20 0 1921 17 9 1922 16 8 1923 17 1 1924 17 1 1925 17 5 1926 17 7 1927 17 4 1928 17 1 1929 17 1 1930 16 7 1931 15 2 1932 13 7 1933 13 0 1934 13 4 1935 13 7 1936 13 9 1937 14 4 1938 14 1 1939 13 9 1940 14 0 1941 14 7 1942 16 3 1943 17 3 1944 17 6 1945 18 0 Year Annual CPI 1946 19 5 1947 22 3 1948 24 1 1949 23 8 1950 24 1 1951 26 0 1952 26 5 1953 26 7 1954 26 9 1955 26 8 1956 27 2 1957 28 1 1958 28 9 1959 29 1 1960 29 6 1961 29 9 1962 30 2 1963 30 6 1964 31 0 1965 31 5 1966 32 4 1967 33 4 1968 34 8 1969 36 7 1970 38 8 1971 40 5 1972 41 8 1973 44 4 1974 49 3 1975 53 8 1976 56 9 1977 60 6 1978 65 2 3 Year Annual CPI 1979 72 6 1980 82 4 1981 90 9 1982 96 5 1983 99 6 1984 103 9 1985 107 6 1986 109 6 1987 113 6 1988 118 3 1989 124 0 1990 130 7 1991 136 2 1992 140 3 1993 144 5 1994 148 2 1995 152 4 1996 156 9 1997 160 5 1998 163 0 1999 166 6 2000 172 2 2001 177 1 2002 179 9 2003 184 0 2004 188 9 2005 195 3 2006 201 6 2007 207 342 2008 215 303 2009 214 537 2010 216 687
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