Although entertainment options continue to expand and crowd the marketplace -- as well as the marketing associated with those products -- the marketing power when being nominated or winning an Academy Award remains strong.Movies nominated for Best Picture between 2007 and 2011 pulled in U.S. box office revenues that were 247% of their production budgets, according to industry researcher IBISWorld.This calculates from an average production budget of $42 million, pulling in an average total U.S. box office revenue of $104 million. IBISWorld says just looking at Oscar-generated box office is around $28 million.IBISWorld says: "Most of the nominees for the 2012 awards stand out significantly from typical blockbusters. Out of the nominees, winners tend to be lower-budget movies that have experienced a larger monetary boost for the Academy Award nomination.”IBISWorld says during the past five years, the average winning movie was made on a $17 million budget and getting $82.5 million at the box-office -- a 485% gain -- with more than half of the winners’ box-office sales occurred after the Best Picture nomination.By way of comparison, in estimating box-office results for all theatrical movies in 2013, an individual title's movie is expected to average a profit -- earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- of 7.4%.Typical winners of the Best Picture award took in an average $35 million in box-office revenue before the Oscar nominees were announced; $29 million once they were nominated; and $18 million after winning the Oscar.Typical nominees for Best Picture had $81 million in box-office revenue before the Oscar nominees were announced; $19.0 million once they were nominated; and $4.2 million after the awards show.Some movies nominated for the 2011 Best Picture Oscar witness high box-office results to their production budgets: "The Artist" (297%); "The Help" (678%), "The Descendents" (413%) and "Midnight in Paris" (334%).