List of highest-grossing films
High-grossing films by year
Audience tastes were fairly eclectic during the 20th century, but several trends did emerge. During the silent era, films with war themes were popular with audiences, with The Birth of a Nation (American Civil War), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Big Parade and Wings (all World War I) becoming the most successful films in their respective years of release, with the trend coming to an end with All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930.

List of highest-grossing films

Section Title: High-grossing films by year
Table Section Text: Audience tastes were fairly eclectic during the 20th century, but several trends did emerge. During the silent era, films with war themes were popular with audiences, with The Birth of a Nation (American Civil War), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Big Parade and Wings (all World War I) becoming the most successful films in their respective years of release, with the trend coming to an end with All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930.

Year	Title	Worldwide gross	Budget	Reference(s)

1915	The Birth of a Nation	$50,000,000–100,000,000 $20,000,000+ ($5,200,000)	$110,000

1916	Intolerance	$1,000,000	$489,653

1917	Cleopatra	$500,000	$300,000

1918	Mickey	$8,000,000	$250,000

1919	The Miracle Man	$3,000,000	$120,000

1920	Way Down East	$5,000,000 ($4,000,000)	$800,000

1921	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	$5,000,000 ($4,000,000)	$600,000–800,000

1922	Robin Hood	$2,500,000	$930,042.78

1923	The Covered Wagon	$5,000,000	$800,000

1924	The Sea Hawk	$3,000,000	$700,000

1925	The Big Parade	$18,000,000–22,000,000 ($6,131,000)	$382,000

Ben-Hur	$10,738,000 ($9,386,000)	$3,967,000

1926	For Heaven's Sake	$2,600,000	$150,000

1927	Wings	$3,600,000	$2,000,000

1928	The Singing Fool	$5,900,000	$388,000

1929	The Broadway Melody	$4,400,000–4,800,000	$379,000

Sunny Side Up	$3,500,000	$600,000

1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	$3,000,000	$1,250,000

1931	Frankenstein	$12,000,000 ($1,400,000)	$250,000

City Lights	$5,000,000	$1,607,351

1932	The Sign of the Cross	$2,738,993	$694,065

1933	King Kong	$5,347,000 ($1,856,000)	$672,255.75

I'm No Angel	$3,250,000+	$200,000

Cavalcade	$3,000,000–4,000,000	$1,116,000

She Done Him Wrong	$3,000,000+	$274,076

1934	The Merry Widow	$2,608,000	$1,605,000

It Happened One Night	$1,000,000	$325,000

1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	$4,460,000	$1,905,000

1936	San Francisco	$6,044,000+ ($5,273,000)	$1,300,000

1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	$418,000,000+ ($8,500,000)	$1,488,423

1938	You Can't Take It With You	$5,000,000	$1,200,000

1939	Gone with the Wind	$390,525,192–401,776,459 ($32,000,000)	$3,900,000–4,250,000

1940	Pinocchio	$87,000,862 ($3,500,000)	$2,600,000

Boom Town	$4,600,000	$2,100,000

1941	Sergeant York	$7,800,000	$1,600,000

1942	Bambi	$267,997,843 ($3,449,353)	$1,700,000–2,000,000

Mrs. Miniver	$8,878,000	$1,344,000

1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	$11,000,000	$2,681,298

This Is the Army	$9,555,586.44	$1,400,000

1944	Going My Way	$6,500,000	$1,000,000

1945	Mom and Dad	$80,000,000/$22,000,000	$65,000

The Bells of St. Mary's	$11,200,000	$1,600,000

1946	Song of the South	$65,000,000 ($3,300,000)	$2,125,000

The Best Years of Our Lives	$14,750,000	$2,100,000

Duel in the Sun	$10,000,000	$5,255,000

1947	Forever Amber	$8,000,000	$6,375,000

Unconquered	$7,500,000	$4,200,000

1948	Easter Parade	$5,918,134	$2,500,000

The Red Shoes	$5,000,000	£505,581 (~$2,000,000)

The Snake Pit	$4,100,000	$3,800,000

1949	Samson and Delilah	$14,209,250	$3,097,563

1950	Cinderella	$263,591,415 ($20,000,000/$7,800,000)	$2,200,000

King Solomon's Mines	$10,050,000	$2,258,000

1951	Quo Vadis	$21,037,000–26,700,000	$7,623,000

1952	This Is Cinerama	$50,000,000	$1,000,000

The Greatest Show on Earth	$18,350,000	$3,873,946

1953	Peter Pan	$145,000,000	$3,000,000–4,000,000

The Robe	$25,000,000–26,100,000	$4,100,000

1954	Rear Window	$24,500,000 ($5,300,000)	$1,000,000

White Christmas	$26,000,050 ($12,000,000)	$3,800,000

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	$25,000,134 ($6,800,000–8,000,000)	$4,500,000–9,000,000

1955	Lady and the Tramp	$187,000,000 ($6,500,000)	$4,000,000

Cinerama Holiday	$21,000,000	$2,000,000

Mister Roberts	$9,900,000	$2,400,000

1956	The Ten Commandments	$90,066,230 ($122,700,000/$55,200,000)	$13,270,000

1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	$30,600,000	$2,840,000

1958	South Pacific	$30,000,000	$5,610,000

1959	Ben-Hur	$90,000,000 ($146,900,000/$66,100,000)	$15,900,000

1960	Swiss Family Robinson	$30,000,000	$4,000,000

Spartacus	$60,000,000 ($22,105,225)	$10,284,014

Psycho	$50,000,000+ ($14,000,000)	$800,000

1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	$215,880,212	$3,600,000–4,000,000

West Side Story	$105,000,000 ($31,800,000)	$7,000,000

1962	Lawrence of Arabia	$77,324,852 ($69,995,385)	$13,800,000

How the West Was Won	$35,000,000	$14,483,000

The Longest Day	$33,200,000	$8,600,000

1963	Cleopatra	$40,300,000	$31,115,000

From Russia with Love	$78,900,000/$29,400,000 ($12,500,000)	$2,000,000

1964	My Fair Lady	$55,000,000	$17,000,000

Goldfinger	$124,900,000 ($46,000,000)	$3,000,000

Mary Poppins	$44,000,000–$50,000,000	$5,200,000

1965	The Sound of Music	$286,214,076 ($114,600,000)	$8,000,000

1966	The Bible: In the Beginning	$25,300,000	$18,000,000

Hawaii	$34,562,222 ($15,600,000)	$15,000,000

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	$30,000,000 ($14,500,000)	$7,613,000

1967	The Jungle Book	$378,000,000 ($23,800,000)	$3,900,000–4,000,000

The Graduate	$85,000,000	$3,100,000

1968	2001: A Space Odyssey	$141,000,000–190,000,000 ($21,900,000)	$10,300,000

Funny Girl	$80,000,000–100,000,000	$8,800,000

1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	$152,308,525 ($37,100,000)	$6,600,000

1970	Love Story	$80,000,000	$2,260,000

Airport	$75,000,000	$10,000,000

1971	The French Connection	$75,000,000	$3,300,000

Fiddler on the Roof	$49,400,000 ($100,000,000/$45,100,000)	$9,000,000

Diamonds Are Forever	$116,000,000 ($45,700,000)	$7,200,000

1972	The Godfather	$245,066,044–286,000,000 ($127,600,000–142,000,000)	$6,200,000

1973	The Exorcist	$413,071,948 ($110,000,000)	$10,000,000

The Sting	$115,000,000	$5,500,000

1974	The Towering Inferno	$91,838,000	$14,300,000

Blazing Saddles	$80,000,000+	$2,600,000

1975	Jaws	$470,653,591 ($193,700,000)	$9,000,000

1976	Rocky	$225,000,000 ($77,100,000)	$1,075,000

1977	Star Wars	$775,398,007 ($530,000,000/$268,500,000)	$11,293,151

1978	Grease	$395,452,066 ($341,000,000)	$6,000,000

1979	Moonraker	$210,300,000	$31,000,000

Rocky II	$200,182,289	$7,000,000

1980	The Empire Strikes Back	$547,969,004 ($413,562,607)	$23,000,000–32,000,000

1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	$389,925,971 ($321,866,000–353,988,025)	$18,000,000–22,800,000

1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	$792,910,554 ($619,000,000–664,000,000)	$10,500,000–12,200,000

1983	Return of the Jedi	$475,106,177 ($385,845,197)	$32,500,000–42,700,000

1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	$333,107,271	$27,000,000–28,200,000

1985	Back to the Future	$389,053,797 ($381,109,762)	$19,000,000–22,000,000

1986	Top Gun	$356,830,601 ($345,000,000)	$14,000,000–19,000,000

1987	Fatal Attraction	$320,145,905	$14,000,000

1988	Rain Man	$354,825,476	$30,000,000

1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	$474,171,806–494,000,000	$36,000,000–55,400,000

1990	Ghost	$505,702,423	$22,000,000

1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	$523,774,456 ($519,843,345)	$94,000,000

1992	Aladdin	$504,050,045	$28,000,000

1993	Jurassic Park	$1,029,939,903 ($914,691,118)	$63,000,000–70,000,000

1994	The Lion King	$968,483,777 ($763,455,561)	$45,000,000–79,300,000

1995	Toy Story	$373,554,033 ($364,873,776)	$30,000,000

Die Hard with a Vengeance	$366,101,666	$70,000,000

1996	Independence Day	$817,400,891	$75,000,000

1997	Titanic	$2,187,463,944 ($1,843,201,268)	$200,000,000

1998	Armageddon	$553,709,626	$140,000,000

1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	$1,027,044,677 ($924,317,558)	$115,000,000–127,500,000

2000	Mission: Impossible 2	$546,388,105	$100,000,000–125,000,000

2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	$975,051,288 ($974,755,371)	$125,000,000

2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	$926,349,708 ($921,780,457)	$94,000,000

2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	$1,120,237,002 ($1,119,110,941)	$94,000,000

2004	Shrek 2	$919,838,758	$150,000,000

2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$897,099,794 ($896,911,078)	$150,000,000

2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	$1,066,179,725	$225,000,000

2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	$963,420,425	$300,000,000

2008	The Dark Knight	$1,004,558,444 ($997,039,412)	$185,000,000

2009	Avatar	$2,787,965,087 ($2,749,064,328)	$237,000,000

2010	Toy Story 3	$1,066,969,703	$200,000,000

2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	$1,341,693,157 ($1,341,511,219)	$250,000,000

2012	The Avengers	$1,518,812,988	$220,000,000

2013	Frozen	$1,290,000,000 ($1,287,000,000)	$150,000,000

2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	$1,104,039,076	$210,000,000

2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$2,068,223,624	$245,000,000

2016	Captain America: Civil War	$1,153,304,495	$250,000,000

2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	$1,332,539,889	$200,000,000

2018	Avengers: Infinity War	$2,048,359,754	$316,000,000–400,000,000

2019	Avengers: Endgame	$1,481,099,795	$356,000,000

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