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Sunday, November 14, 2010

ALL time box office hits by time and decade

TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1920s(estimated)
  1. The Big Parade (1925)
  2. The Singing Fool (1928)
  3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
  4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
  5. Way Down East (1920)
  6.  The Gold Rush (1925)
  7. The Ten Commandments (1923)
  8. The Covered Wagon (1923)
  9. Wings (1927) (unknown gross)
  10. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) (tie)
  11. Aloma of the South Seas (1926) (tie)
  12. The Jazz Singer (1927) (tie)
  13. The Broadway Melody (1929)
  14. The Kid (1921)

    Also in the Pre-Sound Era: 

     The Birth of a Nation (1915)     
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1920s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1920: Way Down East (1920)
1921: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
1922: N/A
1923:The Ten Commandments (1923)
1924: N/A 1925: The Big Parade (1925)
1926: Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
1927: The Jazz Singer (1927)
1928: The Singing Fool (1928)
1929: The Broadway Melody (1929)




TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1930s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1.  Gone With The Wind (1939)
  2.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  3.  The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  4. Frankenstein (1931)
  5. Tom Sawyer (1930)
  6.  King Kong (1933)
  7.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  8. Hell's Angels (1930)
  9. How to Be a Detective (1936)
  10. Ingagi (1930)
  11. San Francisco (1936)
  12. Maytime (1937)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1930s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1930: Tom Sawyer (1930) or Hell's Angels (1930) 
1931: Frankenstein (1931)
1932: N/A
1933:  King Kong (1933)
1934:  It Happened One Night (1934)1935: Top Hat (1935)
1936: How to Be a Detective (1936)
1937:  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
1938: The Dawn Patrol (1938), You Can't Take It With You (1938), or Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) 
1939:  Gone With The Wind (1939)



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1940s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1. Bambi (1942)
  2. Pinocchio (1940)
  3. Song of the South (1946)
  4. Samson and Delilah (1949)
  5.  Fantasia (1940)
  6.  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  7. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
  8. Duel in the Sun (1946)
  9. This Is the Army (1943)
  10. The Jolson Story (1946)
  11. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  12. Sergeant York (1941)
  13. Going My Way (1944)
  14. Mom and Dad (1945) (tie)
  15. Forever Amber (1947) (tie)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1940s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1940: Pinocchio (1940)
1941: Sergeant York (1941) 
1942: Bambi (1942)
1943: This Is the Army (1943)
1944: Going My Way (1944)1945: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
1946: Song of the South (1946)
1947: Forever Amber (1947) 
1948: The Snake Pit (1948) 
1949: Samson and Delilah (1949)



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1950s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
  2. Peter Pan (1953)
  3. Cinderella (1950)
  4. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  5.  Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
  7. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  8. South Pacific (1958) (tie)
  9. From Here to Eternity (1953) (tie)
  10. The Robe (1953) (tie)
  11. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (tie)
  12. Giant (1956) (tie)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1950s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1950: Cinderella (1950) 
1951: Quo Vadis (1951)
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 
1953: Peter Pan (1953) 
1954: White Christmas (1954) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) (tie) 1955: Lady and the Tramp (1955) 
1956: The Ten Commandments (1956)
1957:  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1958: South Pacific (1958) 
1959:  Ben-Hur (1959)



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1960s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1. The Sound of Music (1965)
  2. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
  3. The Jungle Book (1967)
  4. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  5.  The Graduate (1967)
  6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie)
  7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (tie)
  8. My Fair Lady (1964)
  9. Thunderball (1965)
  10. Funny Girl (1968)
  11.  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  12. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  13. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  14. Cleopatra (1963)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1960s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1960: Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
1961: 101 Dalmatians (1961) 
1962:  Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (or The Longest Day (1962))
1963: Cleopatra (1963) 
1964: Mary Poppins (1964) 1965: The Sound of Music (1965)
1966: Hawaii (1966) (or The Bible (1966))
1967: The Jungle Book (1967)
1968: Funny Girl (1968) 
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1970s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1.  Star Wars (1977)
  2.  Jaws (1975)
  3. The Exorcist (1973)
  4. Grease (1978)
  5. The Sting (1973)
  6. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
  7.  The Godfather (1972)
  8. Superman (1978)
  9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977/80)
  10. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
  11. Blazing Saddles (1974)
  12. Rocky (1976)
  13. The Towering Inferno (1974)
  14. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  15. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1970s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1970: Love Story (1970) 
1971: Billy Jack (1971) 
1972:  The Godfather (1972) 
1973: The Exorcist (1973)
1974: Blazing Saddles (1974) 1975:  Jaws (1975)
1976: Rocky (1976) 
1977:  Star Wars (1977)
1978: Grease (1978) 
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1980s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1.  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  2. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
  3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  4. Batman (1989)
  5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  6. Ghostbusters (1984)
  7. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
  8. Back to the Future (1985)
  9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1980s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1980: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
1982:  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
1983: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 
1984: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)1985: Back to the Future (1985) 
1986: Top Gun (1986)
1987: Three Men and a Baby (1987)
1988: Rain Man (1988)
1989: Batman (1989) 



TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 1990s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1. Titanic (1997)
  2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
  3. Jurassic Park (1993)
  4. Forrest Gump (1994)
  5. The Lion King (1994)
  6. Independence Day (1996)
  7. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  8. Home Alone (1990)
  9. Men in Black (1997)
  10. Toy Story 2 (1999)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 1990s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
1990: Home Alone (1990) 
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 
1992: Aladdin (1992) 
1993: Jurassic Park (1993) 
1994: Forrest Gump (1994) 1995: Toy Story (1995) 
1996: Independence Day (1996) 
1997: Titanic (1997) 
1998: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
1999: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)


TOP TEN FILMS
OF THE 2000s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)
  1. Avatar (2009)
  2. The Dark Knight (2008)
  3. Shrek 2 (2004)
  4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
  5. Spider-Man (2002)
  6. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  7. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  9. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  10. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Also, in Top 10, in 2010: Toy Story 3 (2010)
TOP FILMS BY YEAR
IN THE 2000s
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) 
2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) 
2002: Spider-Man (2002)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 
2004: Shrek 2 (2004) 2005: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 
2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) 
2007: Spider-Man 3 (2007) 
2008: The Dark Knight (2008) 
2009: Avatar (2009)
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