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.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
$78,656,813
14
Backdraft
$77,868,585
15
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
$74,888,996
16
The Prince of Tides
$74,787,599
17
JFK
$70,405,498
18
Hot Shots!
$69,467,617
19
What About Bob?
$63,707,829
20
The Last Boy Scout
$59,509,925
21
My Girl
$59,489,799
22
Boyz n the Hood
$57,504,069
23
Doc Hollywood
$54,830,779
24
Bugsy
$49,114,016
25
New Jack City
$47,624,353
26
The Rocketeer
$46,704,056
27
Thelma & Louise
$45,360,915
28
Point Break
$43,218,387
29
Regarding Henry
$43,001,500
30
The Fisher King
$41,895,491
31
Out for Justice
$39,673,161
32
The Doctor
$38,120,905
33
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
$38,037,513
34
Dead Again
$38,016,380
35
Soapdish
$36,489,888
36
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
$34,872,033
37
White Fang
$34,793,160
38
The Doors
$34,416,893
39
King Ralph
$34,002,045
40
Curly Sue
$33,691,313
41
Dying Young
$33,669,178
42
Grand Canyon
$33,243,020
43
Jungle Fever
$32,482,682
44
Double Impact
$30,102,717
45
L.A. Story
$28,862,081
46
Deceived
$28,738,096
47
Necessary Roughness
$26,255,594
48
The Hard Way
$25,895,485
49
Other People's Money
$25,682,090
50
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
$25,196,249
Box Office notes
Re-releases are excluded from all yearly rankings.
A film's original theatrical run is treated as a single release as long as the run remains uninterrupted.
Rankings are based on each film's original U.S. theatrical release year.
Rankings are based on domestic box office performance.
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.
