So what explains big-budget winners like Titanic, Gladiator and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
The Return of the King, the last installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, opens next week.
The Hobbit outperformed the US debut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Peter Jackson's previous best opening in December 2003.
You have to go back to 2003 to find a top five nominee: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which won Best Picture that year.
It's such an incredible achievement that there's no way I cannot say that the best score this year is Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Some 20 years later, in the wake of the publication of the final part of the trilogy, The Return of the King, WH Auden wrote that the cycle surpassed Milton's Paradise Lost.
"The Return of the King" turns out to be even more ambitious than its remarkable predecessor, "The Two Towers, " though it's obviously not as compact (another relative thing), what with dramatic convolutions within its several plot lines and a stupendous martial passage that manages to dwarf the battle of Helm's Deep.
The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first part of The Lord of the Rings and The Two Towers: being the second part of The Lord of the Rings were both released in 1954, followed by The Return of the King: being the third part of The Lord of the Rings in 1955.
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The consensus has been that the Academy was waiting for Return Of The King before giving the director his just rewards.
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While at EA he also produced Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and 007: From Russia With Love.
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If the demise of nuclear does mean the return of King Coal to power, it is unlikely to be German coal.
For the last, apocalyptic battle in Return of the King, it has created hundreds of thousands of soldiers to do battle.
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Former Prime Minister Paul Henri Spaak, who is currently President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe, voted against the king's return.
It was the fourth Boxing Day running that Tottenham had grabbed victory, and an excellent day for the home fans was made all the better by the return of skipper Ledley King, who completed 73 impressive minutes after a serious knee injury.
The Belgian government has collapsed over a referendum on the return from exile of King Leopold III.
The Alex have been boosted, however, by the return to fitness of Mat Mitchel-King, who played around an hour in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Aston Villa on Wednesday.
You're not going to want to waste your time watching Return of the King on this thing, but it's just fine for short stuff where often times the dialogue is just as important as what's being pictured.
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The king's pardon was seen as a way of letting the prince return.
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