The table below lists the top-grossing movie released in each calendar year. Click on the year number for a list of all the films released that year.
The "Annual Stats" links will take you to a summary of the film business for the year in question (this part of our archive starts in 1995). Click on
the movie name to see information on the individual film.
Year | Annual Stats | Movie | Genre | Production Budget | Total Domestic Box Office | Trailer |
2020 |
|
Avatar 3 |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
2019 |
|
Shazam! |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
2018 |
|
How to Train Your Dragon 3 |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
2017 |
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
2016 |
|
Kung Fu Panda 3 |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
2015 |
Annual Stats |
Fifty Shades of Grey |
Drama |
$40,000,000 |
$161,376,992 |
Play |
2014 |
Annual Stats |
American Sniper |
Drama |
$58,000,000 |
$341,499,552 |
Play |
2013 |
Annual Stats |
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire |
Adventure |
$130,000,000 |
$424,668,047 |
Play |
2012 |
Annual Stats |
The Avengers |
Adventure |
$225,000,000 |
$623,279,552 |
Play |
2011 |
Annual Stats |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II |
Adventure |
$125,000,000 |
$381,011,232 |
Play |
2010 |
Annual Stats |
Toy Story 3 |
Adventure |
$200,000,000 |
$415,004,880 |
Play |
2009 |
Annual Stats |
Avatar |
Action |
$425,000,000 |
$760,507,648 |
Play |
2008 |
Annual Stats |
The Dark Knight |
Action |
$185,000,000 |
$533,345,358 |
|
2007 |
Annual Stats |
Spider-Man 3 |
Adventure |
$258,000,000 |
$336,530,304 |
|
2006 |
Annual Stats |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
Adventure |
$225,000,000 |
$423,315,812 |
|
2005 |
Annual Stats |
Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith |
Adventure |
$115,000,000 |
$380,270,592 |
|
2004 |
Annual Stats |
Shrek 2 |
Adventure |
$70,000,000 |
$441,226,247 |
|
2003 |
Annual Stats |
Finding Nemo |
Adventure |
$94,000,000 |
$380,529,376 |
Play |
2002 |
Annual Stats |
Spider-Man |
Adventure |
$139,000,000 |
$403,706,375 |
|
2001 |
Annual Stats |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Adventure |
$125,000,000 |
$317,575,552 |
|
2000 |
Annual Stats |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
Comedy |
$123,000,000 |
$260,044,832 |
|
1999 |
Annual Stats |
Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace |
Adventure |
$115,000,000 |
$474,544,677 |
Play |
1998 |
Annual Stats |
Saving Private Ryan |
Drama |
$65,000,000 |
$216,335,085 |
|
1997 |
Annual Stats |
Titanic |
Thriller/Suspense |
$200,000,000 |
$658,672,320 |
Play |
1996 |
Annual Stats |
Independence Day |
Adventure |
$75,000,000 |
$306,169,255 |
|
1995 |
Annual Stats |
Toy Story |
Adventure |
$30,000,000 |
$191,780,865 |
|
1994 |
|
The Lion King |
Adventure |
$79,300,000 |
$422,780,140 |
Play |
1993 |
|
Jurassic Park |
Action |
$63,000,000 |
$395,708,320 |
Play |
1992 |
|
Aladdin |
Comedy |
$28,000,000 |
$217,350,219 |
|
1991 |
|
Beauty and the Beast |
Musical |
$20,000,000 |
$218,951,632 |
Play |
1990 |
|
Home Alone |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$285,761,243 |
|
1989 |
|
Batman |
Action |
$35,000,000 |
$251,188,924 |
|
1988 |
|
Rain Man |
Comedy |
$25,000,000 |
$172,825,435 |
|
1987 |
|
3 Men and a Baby |
Comedy |
$15,000,000 |
$167,780,960 |
|
1986 |
|
Top Gun |
Action |
$15,000,000 |
$179,800,608 |
Play |
1985 |
|
Back to the Future |
Adventure |
$19,000,000 |
$210,609,762 |
|
1984 |
|
Ghostbusters |
Comedy |
$30,000,000 |
$242,212,467 |
Play |
1983 |
|
Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi |
Adventure |
$32,500,000 |
$309,205,079 |
|
1982 |
|
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial |
Drama |
$10,500,000 |
$435,110,554 |
|
1981 |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Adventure |
$20,000,000 |
$248,159,971 |
|
1980 |
|
Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back |
Adventure |
$23,000,000 |
$290,271,960 |
|
1979 |
|
Kramer vs. Kramer |
Drama |
|
$106,260,000 |
|
1978 |
|
Grease |
Musical |
$6,000,000 |
$181,813,776 |
Play |
1977 |
|
Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope |
Adventure |
$11,000,000 |
$460,998,007 |
|
1976 |
|
Rocky |
Drama |
$1,000,000 |
$117,235,147 |
|
1975 |
|
Jaws |
Horror |
$12,000,000 |
$260,000,000 |
|
1974 |
|
Blazing Saddles |
Comedy |
$2,600,000 |
$119,500,000 |
|
1973 |
|
The Exorcist |
Horror |
$12,000,000 |
$204,868,002 |
|
1972 |
|
The Godfather |
Drama |
$7,000,000 |
$134,966,411 |
|
1971 |
|
Billy Jack |
|
|
$98,000,000 |
|
1970 |
|
Love Story |
Drama |
|
$106,397,186 |
|
1969 |
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
Western |
$6,000,000 |
$102,308,900 |
|
1968 |
|
Funny Girl |
|
|
$58,500,000 |
|
1967 |
|
The Jungle Book |
Musical |
|
$141,843,000 |
|
1966 |
|
The Bible |
Drama |
|
$34,900,023 |
|
1965 |
|
The Sound of Music |
Musical |
$8,200,000 |
$163,214,286 |
|
1964 |
|
Mary Poppins |
Musical |
$6,000,000 |
$102,300,000 |
|
1963 |
|
Cleopatra |
Drama |
$42,000,000 |
$57,000,000 |
|
1962 |
|
The Longest Day |
Action |
$10,000,000 |
$39,100,000 |
|
1961 |
|
101 Dalmatians |
Comedy |
|
$153,000,000 |
|
1960 |
|
Swiss Family Robinson |
|
|
$40,400,000 |
|
1959 |
|
Ben-Hur |
Adventure |
$15,000,000 |
$73,000,000 |
|
1958 |
|
South Pacific |
|
|
$36,800,000 |
|
1957 |
|
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Drama |
$3,000,000 |
$33,300,000 |
|
1956 |
|
The Ten Commandments |
Drama |
$13,500,000 |
$80,000,000 |
|
1955 |
|
Lady and the Tramp |
Drama |
|
$93,600,000 |
|
1954 |
|
White Christmas |
Musical |
|
$30,000,000 |
|
1953 |
|
Peter Pan |
Adventure |
$4,000,000 |
$87,400,000 |
|
1952 |
|
The Greatest Show on Earth |
|
$4,000,000 |
$36,000,000 |
|
1951 |
|
Quo Vadis? |
Drama |
$8,250,000 |
$30,000,000 |
|
1950 |
|
Cinderella |
Drama |
$2,900,000 |
$85,000,000 |
|
1949 |
|
Samson and Delilah |
Drama |
|
$28,800,000 |
|
1948 |
|
The Snake Pit |
|
|
$10,000,000 |
|
1947 |
|
Forever Amber |
|
|
$16,000,000 |
|
1946 |
|
Song of the South |
Adventure |
|
$65,000,000 |
|
1945 |
|
The Bells of St. Mary's |
Drama |
|
$21,300,000 |
|
1944 |
|
Going My Way |
|
|
$16,300,000 |
|
1943 |
|
This is the Army |
|
|
$19,500,000 |
|
1942 |
|
Bambi |
Drama |
|
$102,797,000 |
|
1941 |
|
Sergeant York |
|
|
$16,400,000 |
|
1940 |
|
Pinocchio |
Adventure |
|
$84,300,000 |
|
1939 |
|
Gone with the Wind |
Drama |
$3,900,000 |
$198,680,470 |
|
1938 |
|
You Can't Take It With You |
|
$1,644,000 |
$4,000,000 |
|
1937 |
|
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Musical |
$1,488,000 |
$184,925,485 |
|
1936 |
|
How to Become a Detective |
|
|
$6,000,000 |
|
1935 |
|
Top Hat |
|
$609,000 |
$1,782,000 |
|
1934 |
|
It Happened One Night |
Romantic Comedy |
$325,000 |
$2,500,000 |
|
1933 |
|
King Kong (1933) |
|
$672,000 |
$10,000,000 |
|
1932 |
|
The Most Dangerous Game |
|
|
$0 |
|
1931 |
|
Frankenstein |
Horror |
|
$12,000,000 |
|
1930 |
|
Tom Sawyer |
|
|
$11,000,000 |
|
1929 |
|
The Broadway Melody |
Musical |
$379,000 |
$2,800,000 |
|
1928 |
|
The Singing Fool |
|
|
$10,000,000 |
|
1927 |
|
The Jazz Singer |
|
|
$3,000,000 |
|
1926 |
|
Alamo of the South Seas |
Drama |
|
$3,000,000 |
|
1925 |
|
The Big Parade |
Drama |
$245,000 |
$11,000,000 |
|
1923 |
|
The Covered Wagon |
|
|
$3,800,000 |
|
1921 |
|
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
|
|
$9,200,000 |
|
1920 |
|
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse |
|
$100,000 |
$3,000,000 |
|
1916 |
|
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Adventure |
$200,000 |
$8,000,000 |
|
1915 |
|
The Birth of a Nation |
Drama |
$110,000 |
$10,000,000 |
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The table below shows the highest-grossing movie that begins with each letter of the alphabet. Click on the name of the film
to go to its page. Or click on the letter at the beginning of each row for a list of all the movies beginning with that letter.
Index | Release Date | Movie | Genre | Production Budget | Total Domestic Box Office | Trailer |
( |
Oct 23, 2009 |
(Untitled) |
|
|
$230,600 |
|
1 |
Nov 27, 1996 |
101 Dalmatians |
Comedy |
|
$136,189,294 |
|
2 |
Jun 13, 2014 |
22 Jump Street |
Comedy |
$50,000,000 |
$191,719,344 |
Play |
3 |
Mar 9, 2007 |
300 |
Action |
$60,000,000 |
$210,614,939 |
|
4 |
Aug 19, 2005 |
The 40 Year-old Virgin |
Comedy |
$26,000,000 |
$109,449,237 |
|
5 |
Feb 13, 2004 |
50 First Dates |
Romantic Comedy |
$75,000,000 |
$120,776,832 |
|
6 |
Nov 17, 2000 |
The 6th Day |
Action |
$82,000,000 |
$34,543,701 |
|
7 |
Jul 30, 2010 |
71: Into the Fire |
Drama |
|
$159,335 |
|
8 |
Nov 8, 2002 |
8 Mile |
Drama |
$41,000,000 |
$116,724,075 |
|
9 |
Dec 19, 1980 |
Nine to Five |
Comedy |
|
$103,290,500 |
|
A |
Dec 18, 2009 |
Avatar |
Action |
$425,000,000 |
$760,507,648 |
Play |
B |
Nov 20, 2009 |
The Blind Side |
Drama |
$35,000,000 |
$255,959,475 |
Play |
C |
Dec 9, 2005 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Adventure |
$180,000,000 |
$291,710,957 |
|
D |
Jul 18, 2008 |
The Dark Knight |
Action |
$185,000,000 |
$533,345,358 |
|
E |
Jun 11, 1982 |
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial |
Drama |
$10,500,000 |
$435,110,554 |
|
F |
Nov 22, 2013 |
Frozen |
Adventure |
$150,000,000 |
$400,737,000 |
Play |
G |
Aug 1, 2014 |
Guardians of the Galaxy |
Adventure |
$170,000,000 |
$333,172,112 |
Play |
H |
Nov 22, 2013 |
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire |
Adventure |
$130,000,000 |
$424,668,047 |
Play |
I |
May 3, 2013 |
Iron Man 3 |
Action |
$200,000,000 |
$408,992,272 |
Play |
J |
Jun 11, 1993 |
Jurassic Park |
Action |
$63,000,000 |
$395,708,320 |
Play |
K |
Dec 14, 2005 |
King Kong |
Adventure |
$207,000,000 |
$218,080,032 |
|
L |
Jun 15, 1994 |
The Lion King |
Adventure |
$79,300,000 |
$422,780,140 |
Play |
M |
Jun 14, 2013 |
Man of Steel |
Action |
$225,000,000 |
$291,045,518 |
Play |
N |
Nov 20, 2009 |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon |
Drama |
$50,000,000 |
$296,623,648 |
Play |
O |
Mar 8, 2013 |
Oz the Great and Powerful |
Adventure |
$200,000,000 |
$234,770,996 |
Play |
P |
Jul 7, 2006 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
Adventure |
$225,000,000 |
$423,315,812 |
|
Q |
Nov 14, 2008 |
Quantum of Solace |
Action |
$230,000,000 |
$169,368,432 |
|
R |
Jun 12, 1981 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Adventure |
$20,000,000 |
$248,159,971 |
|
S |
May 19, 1999 |
Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace |
Adventure |
$115,000,000 |
$474,544,677 |
Play |
T |
Dec 17, 1997 |
Titanic |
Thriller/Suspense |
$200,000,000 |
$658,672,320 |
Play |
U |
May 29, 2009 |
Up |
Adventure |
$175,000,000 |
$293,004,164 |
|
V |
Feb 10, 2012 |
The Vow |
Drama |
$30,000,000 |
$125,014,032 |
Play |
W |
Jun 29, 2005 |
War of the Worlds |
Action |
$132,000,000 |
$234,280,354 |
|
X |
May 26, 2006 |
X-Men: The Last Stand |
Action |
$210,000,000 |
$234,362,464 |
|
Y |
Dec 18, 1998 |
You've Got Mail |
Drama |
$65,000,000 |
$115,821,495 |
|
Z |
Dec 19, 2012 |
Zero Dark Thirty |
Drama |
$52,500,000 |
$95,720,720 |
Play |