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
Toy Story
$191,796,233
2
Batman Forever
$184,031,112
3
Apollo 13
$172,071,312
4
Pocahontas
$141,579,773
5
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
$108,385,533
6
GoldenEye
$106,429,941
7
Casper
$100,836,847
8
Jumanji
$100,475,249
9
Seven
$100,125,643
10
Die Hard with a Vengeance
$100,012,499
11
Crimson Tide
$91,387,195
12
Waterworld
$88,246,220
13
Dangerous Minds
$84,919,401
14
Mr. Holland's Opus
$82,569,971
15
While You Were Sleeping
$81,057,016
16
Congo
$81,022,101
17
Father of the Bride Part II
$76,594,107
18
Braveheart
$75,609,945
19
Get Shorty
$72,101,622
20
Grumpier Old Men
$71,518,503
21
The Bridges of Madison County
$71,516,617
22
Mortal Kombat
$70,454,098
23
Nine Months
$69,684,532
24
Outbreak
$67,659,560
25
Heat
$67,436,818
26
Waiting to Exhale
$67,052,156
27
Bad Boys
$65,807,024
28
Babe
$63,658,910
29
The American President
$60,079,496
30
Species
$60,074,103
31
12 Monkeys
$57,141,459
32
Clueless
$56,631,572
33
Sabrina
$53,672,080
34
Something to Talk About
$50,865,589
35
The Net
$50,727,965
36
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
$50,024,083
37
A Walk in the Clouds
$50,008,143
38
The Brady Bunch Movie
$46,576,136
39
Sense and Sensibility
$43,182,776
40
Casino
$42,512,375
41
Man of the House
$40,070,995
42
Dead Man Walking
$39,363,635
43
French Kiss
$38,896,854
44
Higher Learning
$38,290,723
45
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
$38,187,431
46
First Knight
$37,600,435
47
Just Cause
$36,853,222
48
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
$36,474,193
49
The Indian in the Cupboard
$35,656,131
50
Money Train
$35,431,113

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.