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
Aladdin
$217,350,219
2
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
$173,585,516
3
Batman Returns
$162,831,698
4
Lethal Weapon 3
$144,731,527
5
A Few Good Men
$141,340,178
6
Sister Act
$139,605,150
7
The Bodyguard
$121,945,720
8
Wayne's World
$121,697,323
9
Basic Instinct
$117,727,224
10
A League of Their Own
$107,533,928
11
Unforgiven
$101,157,447
12
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
$88,036,683
13
Under Siege
$83,563,139
14
Patriot Games
$83,351,587
15
Dracula
$82,522,790
16
White Men Can't Jump
$76,253,806
17
The Last of the Mohicans
$75,505,856
18
Boomerang
$70,052,444
19
Scent of a Woman
$63,095,253
20
The Crying Game
$62,548,947
21
Far and Away
$58,883,840
22
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
$58,662,452
23
Housesitter
$58,500,635
24
Death Becomes Her
$58,422,650
25
Unlawful Entry
$57,138,719
26
Beethoven
$57,114,049
27
Forever Young
$55,956,187
28
Alien 3
$55,473,545
29
My Cousin Vinny
$52,929,168
30
Sneakers
$51,432,691
31
The Mighty Ducks
$50,752,337
32
Malcolm X
$48,169,910
33
Single White Female
$48,017,402
34
The Distinguished Gentleman
$46,666,502
35
Medicine Man
$45,500,797
36
Passenger 57
$44,065,653
37
A River Runs Through It
$43,440,294
38
Encino Man
$40,693,477
39
Mo' Money
$40,227,006
40
Universal Soldier
$36,299,898
41
Honeymoon in Vegas
$35,208,854
42
The Lawnmower Man
$32,100,816
43
Sleepwalkers
$30,524,763
44
3 Ninjas
$29,000,301
45
Final Analysis
$28,590,665
46
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
$28,411,210
47
The Muppet Christmas Carol
$27,281,507
48
Howards End
$25,966,555
49
Candyman
$25,792,310
50
The Cutting Edge
$25,105,517

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.