Oscar bait nominated for Oscars. For that reason studios plan their Oscar promotional campaigns long before the movie is even released. It has been estimated that The Weinstein Company spent $15 million on its Oscar campaign for "The King's Speech", almost as much as was spent on the Oscar campaign of Weinstein-produced 1998 Best Picture Winner "Shakespeare in Love". Actors, too, benefit at least financially from Oscar wins. Agents and managers estimate that their clients can get as much as 20% more money for their next projects if they win an Oscar or at least received a nomination. Natalie Portman was expected
Sally Field in the film version of "Steel Magnolias" (1989), she was nominated for a 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Field had supporting roles in a number of other movies, including "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993) in which she played Miranda Hillard, the wife of Robin Williams's character and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan's character Stuart 'Stu' Dunmyer. She then played Tom Hanks's mother in "Forrest Gump" (1994), even though she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in "Punchline". Field's other 1990s films included "Not Without My Daughter", a controversial thriller based