अमेरिकन आणि कॅनेडियन बॉक्स ऑफिसमध्ये सलग दुसर्‍या वर्षी प्रमुख नामनिर्देशित व्यक्तींच्या क्षेत्रात किमान एक ब्लॉकबस्टरचा समावेश आहे. परंतु, नामांकन जाहीर होण्यापूर्वी केवळ तीन उमेदवारांनी १०० दशलक्ष डॉलर्सची कमाई केली होती, त्या तुलनेत मागील वर्षी पाच उमेदवार होते. ऑस्कर जाहीर झाल्यावर दहा सर्वोत्कृष्ट चित्रातील नामांकित व्यक्तींची एकत्रित कमाई १.२ billion डॉलर होती. ती २००९ नंतरची दुसर्‍या क्रमांकाची सर्वाधिक कमाई आहे.  सरासरी एकूण उत्पन्न ११९.३ million दशलक्ष होती.

Two of the ten Best Picture nominees were among the top ten releases in box office during the nominations. At the time of the announcement of nominations on January 25, "Toy Story 3" was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $414.9 million in domestic box office receipts. The only other top ten box office hit to receive a nomination was "Inception" which earned $292.5 million. Among the remaining eight nominees, "True Grit" was the next-highest-grossing film with $137.9 million followed by "The Social Network" ($95.4  million), "Black Swan" $83.2 million, "The Fighter" ($72.6 million), "The King's Speech" ($57.3 million), "The Kids Are All Right" ($20.8 million), "127 Hours" ($11.2 million), and finally "Winter's Bone" ($6.2 million).

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 55 nominations went to 15 films on the list. Only "Toy Story 3" (1st), "Inception" (5th), "How to Train Your Dragon" (9th), "True Grit" (17th), "The Social Network" (29th), "The Town" (32nd), "Black Swan" (38th), and "The Fighter" (45th) were nominated for directing, acting, screenwriting, Best Picture or Animated Feature. The other top-50 box office hits that earned nominations were "Alice in Wonderland" (2nd), "Iron Man 2" (3rd), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" (6th), "Tangled" (10th), "Tron: Legacy" (12th), "Salt" (21st), and "Unstoppable" (39th)

For the sixth year in a row the award for Best Picture went to an R rated film ("The King's Speech"). Despite having the second most nominations of the show with ten, "True Grit" failed to win anything.

This was the first time since 2000 (Russell Crowe for "Gladiator") when the winner of Best Picture also won Best Actor. For the fifth time in history, two performers won for playing a parent and child (Melissa Leo and Christian Bale in "The Fighter"), but it was the first time that both awards came in the supporting categories; Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis also won for playing a mother and son in 1989's "My Left Foot", and on three occasions (the awards for 1938, 1987 and 1993) actresses have won for playing a mother and daughter. Also notable was that three of the four acting awards went to performers playing real people, with Bale's subject Dicky Eklund being present at the ceremony; only Best Actress recipient Natalie Portman won for "not" playing a real person – an ironic twist, given that the Best Actress category had in recent years been the one most constantly won for biographical portrayals (eight times in the previous eleven years).
While "The King's Speech" was the first period film since "Chicago" to win best picture, which is intersting since the past has usually gone to period films. Yet in the 2000s it went to films taking place in the present usually, although "No Country for Old Men" did take place in the 1980's yet would not be considered one.

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