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Oscars by the Numbers

-- Publishers Weekly, 3/3/2008

3: Number of Best Picture nominees based on a book

$64.2 million*: Box office revenue of Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men

117,000*: Number of copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan, of Vintage's tie-in trade paperback of No Country for Old Men

$49.4 million*: Box office revenue of Best Picture nominee Atonement

409,000*: Number of combined copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan, of Anchor's trade paper and mass market editions of Best Picture nominee Atonement

$35 million*: Box office revenue of Best Picture nominee There Will Be Blood

33,000*: Copies sold, according to BookScan, of Penguin's paperback tie-in edition of Oil!, the literary source for Best Picture nominee There Will Be Blood

1: Number of Oscar winners who've also published a collection of short stories (Ethan Coen, Gates of Eden)

21.1 million: Number of homes, according to Nielsen, that watched the Oscars

5: Number of nominated films Newmarket published a “Shooting Script” for

*As of February 24

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