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Oscar Winner's with a Low Budget
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This list contains a few examples of those underdogs snatching victory, even on a pretty low budgets compared to the other nominations. (No particular order).
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7.3
7.5
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Movies it beat: Avatar, The Blind Side, District Nine, An Education, Inglorious Bastards, Precious, A Serious Man, Up in the Air, Up
4032
7.5
8
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Movies it beat: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader
6687
7.8
8.3
American Beauty (1999)
Movies it beat: The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
3224
7.1
7.8
Movies it beat: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
488
7.6
7.7
Ordinary People (1980)
Movies it beat: Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
521
6.7
7.2
Movies it beat: Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds
2636
7.7
8.1
Platoon (1986)
Movies it beat: Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
1091
7.8
7.7
The French Connection (1971)
Movies it beat: A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra
258
7.8
7.7
Marty (1955)
Movies it beat: Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo
3012
7.5
8.1
Rocky (1976)
Movies it beat: All the President's Men, Bound For Glory, Network, Taxi Driver
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