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
Rain Man
$172,825,435
2
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
$156,452,370
3
Coming to America
$128,152,301
4
Big
$114,968,774
5
Twins
$111,938,388
6
Crocodile Dundee II
$109,306,210
7
Die Hard
$83,008,852
8
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
$78,756,177
9
Cocktail
$78,222,753
10
Beetlejuice
$73,707,461
11
Working Girl
$63,779,477
12
A Fish Called Wanda
$62,493,712
13
Scrooged
$60,328,558
14
Willow
$57,269,863
15
Beaches
$57,041,866
16
Rambo III
$53,715,611
17
Oliver & Company
$53,279,055
18
Bull Durham
$50,888,729
19
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
$49,369,899
20
The Land Before Time
$48,478,716
21
Colors
$46,616,067
22
Young Guns
$45,661,556
23
Biloxi Blues
$43,184,798
24
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
$42,039,085
25
The Great Outdoors
$41,455,230
26
Tequila Sunrise
$41,292,551
27
Big Business
$40,150,487
28
Midnight Run
$38,413,606
29
The Dead Pool
$37,903,295
30
Red Heat
$34,994,648
31
Dangerous Liaisons
$34,670,720
32
Mississippi Burning
$34,603,943
33
Child's Play
$33,244,684
34
The Accidental Tourist
$32,632,093
35
The Accused
$32,078,318
36
Shoot to Kill
$29,300,090
37
Ernest Saves Christmas
$28,202,109
38
Betrayed
$25,816,139
39
Funny Farm
$25,537,221
40
Alien Nation
$25,216,243
41
Gorillas in the Mist
$24,720,479
42
License to Drive
$22,433,275
43
Short Circuit 2
$21,630,088
44
Married to the Mob
$21,486,757
45
Punchline
$21,042,667
46
The Presidio
$20,324,096
47
Action Jackson
$20,256,975
48
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
$19,652,638
49
The Serpent and the Rainbow
$19,595,031
50
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
$19,510,371

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.