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BOX OFFICE HITS (Domestic Gross) BY DECADE and YEAR |
 All-Time
(Domestic) Box-Office Hits and Top Films By Decade and
Year:
Box-office earnings have often been a great predictor of the feature-length films that have been the most favorite, successful, and popular. However, they do not necessarily reflect the best (or greatest) films of the year or decade. They also provide a window into the era when the film was originally released. Although box-office records are often contradictory, spotty, unreliable and sometimes non-existent (the further you go back in cinematic history), it has been possible to compile listings of the top domestic hits all the way back to 1913 - both by decade (beginning with the silents and the 1920s) and by individual year, up to the present year. Rankings of the top US feature-length films by decade (based on domestic gross revenue) are presented below. Also, rankings of the top films by year are included. In earlier days stretching from the 1920s to the 1940s, exact dollar grosses for films at the box-office were often tallied differently, and therefore remain somewhat unreliable. Note: Complications in determining accurate box-office totals include the fact that many films have had multiple releases (such as Disney animated feature films), re-issues or re-releases, special editions, director's cuts, and subsequent 3-D and IMAX releases - a situation that can have a significant impact on standings. For some films, there are two figures: domestic gross revenue and lifetime domestic gross revenue. |
Box-Office Index
Top 100 (Domestic) | Top 100 (Inflation-Adjusted) | Top 100 (Worldwide) | Film Franchises - Box-Office | Summer Blockbusters
Top Films (By Decade and Year) | Highest-Grossing Films By Genre Type | Greatest Box-Office Bombs, Disasters, and Flops
 THE SILENT ERA & THE 1920s DECADE |
IN SILENT ERA & 1920s (estimated)
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IN SILENT ERA & 1920s (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1913: Traffic in Souls (1913) |
The
Birth of a Nation (1915)
 THE 1940s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
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IN 40s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1940: Pinocchio
(1940) |
 THE 1950s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
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IN 50s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1950: Cinderella (1950)
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 THE 1960s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
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IN 1960s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1960: Spartacus (1960) |
 THE 1970s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
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IN 1970s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1970: Love
Story (1970) |
 THE 1990s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)
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IN 1990s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1990: Home Alone (1990) |
 THE 2010s DECADE |
(unadjusted domestic gross totals) (tentative only)
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IN 2010s DECADE (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 2010: Toy Story 3 (2010) |
