She recounts a joke her cinematographer cracked on hearing the nominations: "We probably made The Selfish Giant for the gaffer tape budget of Gravity".
Made on a production budget of $100 million, Gravity was filmed digitally on multiple Arri Alexa cameras.
A more generous reading is that one reason that so many big-budget Hollywood movies (Gravity, Harry Potter, Star Wars: The Force Awakens etc) shoot in the UK is that they receive such generous tax relief.
High-profile actress, trouble in space: If you're wondering if "Extant" is a low-budget, low-ambition "Gravity," you wouldn't be too far off.
Tonight Championship: Scunthorpe v Reading Nigel Adkins has performed wonders at Scunthorpe where, working with surely the division's smallest budget, he is defying gravity by keeping them in the Championship.
With the fictional mission to Mars funded by an Indian billionaire, the play also explores India's increasingly important role in the future of space travel, illustrated recently by the Indian government's recent investment in an orbiter around Mars that cost less than the budget of the film Gravity to build.
She also underplayed the gravity of her budget maneuvers, which covered up a gaping deficit while she ran for reëlection, in 2014, in a campaign allegedly funded with bribe money.
But it faces strident competition from the bigger budget movies in that category Gravity, Rush, Philomena, The Long Walk To Freedom and Saving Mr Banks.
It's like "Gravity" without the budget or the A-list cast.
Founded by Larry Meistrich in a Lower Broadway loft in 1990, the Shooting Gallery specialized in low-budget films like "Laws of Gravity," a 1992 melodrama that was made for only $38,000.
Gravity had a production budget of $100m, but has already netted more than £360m since its US release.
