THE DECADE's ALL-TIME
BOX OFFICE LEADERS
The Decade's All-Time
Box Office Hits of the most popular films (for each of the decades
from the Pre-Sound Era to the decade of the 1990s) have been compiled
below by various sources.
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1920s
- The Big Parade (1925)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1926)
- The Ten Commandments (1923)
- What Price Glory? (1926)
- The Covered Wagon (1923)
- Way Down East (1921)
- The Singing Fool (1928)
- Wings (1927)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1930s
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- King Kong (1933)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Hell's Angels (1930) (tie)
- Lost Horizon (1937) (tie)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (tie)
- Maytime (1937)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1940s
- Bambi (1942)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Fantasia (1940)
- Song of the South (1946)
- Mom and Dad (1947)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- This is the Army (1943)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1950s
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Peter Pan (1953)
- Cinderella (1950)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- This is Cinerama (1952)
- South Pacific (1958)
- The Robe (1953)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1960s
- 101 Dalmatians (1961)
- The Jungle Book (1967)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Thunderball (1965)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1970s
- Star Wars (1977)
- Jaws (1975)
- Grease (1978)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977/80)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Superman (1978)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Jaws 2 (1978)
- Moonraker (1979)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1980s
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Rain Man (1988)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Batman (1989)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- Top Gun (1986)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1990s
- Titanic (1997)
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Independence Day (1996)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Men in Black (1997)
- Armageddon (1998)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 2000s
- Avatar (2009)
- Dark Knight (2008)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Spider-Man (2002)
- Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- LOTR: The Return of the King (2003)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- The Passion of the Christ (2004)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 2010s
- Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Black Panther (2018)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Jurassic World (2015)
- Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
- Incredibles 2 (2018)
- The Lion King (2019)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 2020s
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 804.8 Million
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 718.7 Million
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 684.0 Million
- Barbie (2023) 636.2 Million
- Super Mario Brothers (2023) 574.9 Million
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) 453.8 Million
- Doctor Stange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 411.3 Million
- Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) 376.8 Million
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 383.3 Million
- Minions: The Rise of Gru ( 2022) 369.7 Million