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
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
$424,668,047
2
Iron Man 3
$409,013,994
3
Frozen
$400,738,009
4
Despicable Me 2
$368,065,385
5
Man of Steel
$291,045,518
6
Gravity
$274,092,705
7
Monsters University
$268,492,764
8
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
$258,366,855
9
Fast & Furious 6
$238,679,850
10
Oz the Great and Powerful
$234,911,825
11
Star Trek Into Darkness
$228,778,661
12
Thor: The Dark World
$206,362,140
13
World War Z
$202,359,711
14
The Croods
$187,168,425
15
The Heat
$159,582,188
16
We're the Millers
$150,394,119
17
American Hustle
$150,117,807
18
The Great Gatsby
$144,840,419
19
The Conjuring
$137,400,141
20
Identity Thief
$134,506,920
21
Grown Ups 2
$133,668,525
22
The Wolverine
$132,556,852
23
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
$125,168,368
24
Lone Survivor
$125,095,601
25
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
$122,523,060
26
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
$119,793,567
27
Now You See Me
$117,723,989
28
The Wolf of Wall Street
$116,900,694
29
The Butler
$116,632,095
30
The Hangover Part III
$112,200,072
31
Epic
$107,518,682
32
Captain Phillips
$107,100,855
33
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
$102,003,019
34
Pacific Rim
$101,802,906
35
This Is the End
$101,470,202
36
Olympus Has Fallen
$98,925,640
37
42
$95,020,213
38
Elysium
$93,050,117
39
Planes
$90,288,712
40
The Lone Ranger
$89,302,115
41
Oblivion
$89,107,235
42
Insidious: Chapter 2
$83,586,447
43
Saving Mr. Banks
$83,301,580
44
Turbo
$83,028,128
45
2 Guns
$75,612,460
46
White House Down
$73,103,784
47
Mama
$71,628,180
48
Safe Haven
$71,349,120
49
The Smurfs 2
$71,017,784
50
The Best Man Holiday
$70,525,195

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.