Domestic Box Office Rankings

Explore annual domestic box office rankings based on original theatrical performance. Re-releases are excluded, and each film's initial uninterrupted theatrical run is treated as a single release.

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Rank
Movie
Box Office
1
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
$209,398,025
2
9 to 5
$103,290,500
3
Stir Crazy
$101,300,000
4
Airplane!
$83,453,539
5
Any Which Way You Can
$70,687,344
6
Private Benjamin
$69,847,348
7
Coal Miner's Daughter
$67,182,787
8
Smokey and the Bandit II
$66,132,626
9
The Blue Lagoon
$58,853,106
10
The Blues Brothers
$57,229,890
11
Ordinary People
$54,766,923
12
Popeye
$49,823,037
13
Urban Cowboy
$46,918,287
14
The Shining
$44,213,877
15
Seems Like Old Times
$43,995,918
16
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
$41,675,194
17
Caddyshack
$39,846,344
18
Friday the 13th
$39,754,601
19
Brubaker
$37,121,708
20
Little Darlings
$34,326,249
21
Dressed to Kill
$31,899,000
22
The Jazz Singer
$27,118,000
23
Flash Gordon
$27,107,960
24
The Elephant Man
$26,010,864
25
Bronco Billy
$24,265,659
26
Raging Bull
$23,334,953
27
Xanadu
$22,762,571
28
American Gigolo
$22,743,674
29
My Bodyguard
$22,482,952
30
The Fog
$21,378,361
31
Fame
$21,202,829
32
Tess
$20,093,330
33
Altered States
$19,853,892
34
Song of the South
$19,800,000
35
Cruising
$19,784,223
36
The Octagon
$18,971,000
37
Honeysuckle Rose
$17,815,212
38
Herbie Goes Bananas
$17,000,000
39
Rough Cut
$16,656,125
40
The Final Countdown
$16,647,800
41
A Change of Seasons
$16,400,000
42
The Hunter
$16,274,150
43
Hero at Large
$15,934,737
44
The Long Riders
$15,795,189
45
The Island
$15,716,828
46
First Family
$15,198,912
47
Prom Night
$14,796,236
48
The Nude Bomb
$14,662,035
49
Oh, God! Book II
$14,504,277
50
The Competition
$14,287,755

Box Office notes

About the Domestic Box Office Rankings

Hollywood Rankings compiles annual domestic box office rankings to provide a consistent view of theatrical performance across different eras of film history. Each yearly list ranks films by their original domestic theatrical gross and applies the same release rules throughout the historical data.

Re-releases are excluded from the annual rankings. A film's initial theatrical run is treated as a single release as long as that run remains uninterrupted, while later theatrical returns are not added to the original ranking total. This approach is designed to make yearly box office results more directly comparable.

The historical archive is being expanded to include earlier decades, with particular attention given to years where complete and consistently structured annual box office rankings are difficult to find. Box office data is compiled and curated for use within the Hollywood Rankings database. More information about the underlying sources is available on the Data Sources page.