Movies make money in several ways, including selling branded products and TV broadcast and streaming rights, which has been on the rise in recent years. But the largest source of revenue is still from theaters.
The film production industry is certainly very lucrative but also very risky. There is no guarantee a movie will become a blockbuster, though several factors increase its chances of success, including casting A-list actors.
24/7 Tempo reviewed domestic box office data from film industry site The Numbers to determine the top box office movie every year since 1930. Films were ranked based on the total reported domestic box office within a given year.
For most of Hollywood’s history, the movies that have made the most money in the year they were released were musicals, historical films, and crime dramas. Since the Star Wars series, however — the first of which came out in 1977 — fantasy and adventure movies have been at the top of the box office.
Franchise films — especially in the superhero genre — have been among the highest-grossing movies of the 21st century. These are the biggest box office hits since 2000.
Click here to see the highest-grossest movie every year since 1930
To determine the top box office movie the year you were born, 24/7 Tempo reviewed domestic box office data from film industry site The Numbers. Films were ranked based on the total reported domestic box office within a given year. Additional box office earnings from rereleases of films in later years were not considered. Box office data was adjusted for inflation using historical ticket prices from the National Association of Theatre Owners and the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Supplemental data on IMDb rating and Rotten Tomatoes audience score were collected in April 2021.
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
> Domestic box office: $3.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $119.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 89%
> Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
> Director: Lewis Milestone
> Second highest grossing film: N/A
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1931: Frankenstein
> Domestic box office: $12.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $482.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 100%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
> Director: James Whale
> Second highest grossing film: Mata Hari
1932: Scarface
> Domestic box office: $ 656000 (Inflation-adjusted: $29.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
> Director: Howard Hawks
> Second highest grossing film: N/A
1933: King Kong
> Domestic box office: $10.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $473.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
> Director: Merian C. Cooper
> Second highest grossing film: She Done Him Wrong
1934: It Happened One Night
> Domestic box office: $2.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $114.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 93%
> Cast: Jameson Thomas, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
> Director: Frank Capra
> Second highest grossing film: Viva Villa!
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein
> Domestic box office: $4.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $194.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
> Director: James Whale
> Second highest grossing film: A Night at the Opera
1936: The Great Ziegfeld
> Domestic box office: $3.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $132.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.7 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 64%
> RT audience score: 50%
> Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
> Director: Robert Z. Leonard
> Second highest grossing film: San Francisco
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1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
> Domestic box office: $14.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $615.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 78%
> Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell
> Director: Ben Sharpsteen
> Second highest grossing film: Conquest
1938: You Can’t Take It with You
> Domestic box office: $4.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $173.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 88%
> Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
> Director: Frank Capra
> Second highest grossing film: N/A
1939: The Wizard of Oz
> Domestic box office: $12.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $539.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 89%
> Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
> Director: King Vidor
> Second highest grossing film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940: Pinocchio
> Domestic box office: $52.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $2.3 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.4 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 100%
> RT audience score: 73%
> Cast: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
> Director: Bill Roberts
> Second highest grossing film: Gone With the Wind
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1941: Sergeant York
> Domestic box office: $16.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $682.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.7 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 88%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
> Director: Howard Hawks
> Second highest grossing film: Gone With the Wind
1942: Bambi
> Domestic box office: $77.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $2.9 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 90%
> RT audience score: 73%
> Cast: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn
> Director: Paul Satterfield
> Second highest grossing film: Mrs. Miniver
1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls
> Domestic box office: $17.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $629.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 71%
> RT audience score: 70%
> Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova
> Director: Sam Wood
> Second highest grossing film: The Song of Bernadette
1944: Going My Way
> Domestic box office: $16.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $567.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 81%
> RT audience score: 74%
> Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown
> Director: Leo McCarey
> Second highest grossing film: Meet Me in St. Louis
1945: The Bells of St. Mary’s
> Domestic box office: $21.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $724.6 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 85%
> RT audience score: 77%
> Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
> Director: Leo McCarey
> Second highest grossing film: Leave Her to Heaven
1946: Song of the South
> Domestic box office: $49.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.6 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 50%
> RT audience score: 72%
> Cast: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
> Director: Harve Foster
> Second highest grossing film: Notorious
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1947: Forever Amber
> Domestic box office: $16.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $437.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 0%
> RT audience score: 0%
> Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
> Director: Otto Preminger
> Second highest grossing film: Gone With the Wind
1948: The Snake Pit
> Domestic box office: $10.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $254.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 100%
> RT audience score: 83%
> Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm
> Director: Anatole Litvak
> Second highest grossing film: Red River
1949: Samson and Delilah
> Domestic box office: $28.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $603.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 63%
> RT audience score: 59%
> Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
> Director: Cecil B. DeMille
> Second highest grossing film: Pinky
1950: Cinderella
> Domestic box office: $85.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.8 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 97%
> RT audience score: 80%
> Cast: Ilene Woods, James MacDonald, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
> Director: Clyde Geronimi
> Second highest grossing film: King Solomon’s Mines
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1951: Quo Vadis
> Domestic box office: $30.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $578.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 88%
> RT audience score: 73%
> Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
> Director: Mervyn LeRoy
> Second highest grossing film: David and Bathsheba
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
> Domestic box office: $36.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $678.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 47%
> RT audience score: 54%
> Cast: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde
> Director: Cecil B. DeMille
> Second highest grossing film: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1953: Peter Pan
> Domestic box office: $60.1 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.1 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 78%
> RT audience score: 80%
> Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson
> Director: Clyde Geronimi
> Second highest grossing film: The Robe
1954: White Christmas
> Domestic box office: $30.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $560.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 77%
> RT audience score: 88%
> Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen
> Director: Michael Curtiz
> Second highest grossing film: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955: Lady and the Tramp
> Domestic box office: $66.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $967.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 80%
> Cast: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson
> Director: Clyde Geronimi
> Second highest grossing film: Mister Roberts
1956: The Ten Commandments
> Domestic box office: $85.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.2 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 90%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson
> Director: Cecil B. DeMille
> Second highest grossing film: Around the World in 80 Days
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1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
> Domestic box office: $33.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $431.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 95%
> RT audience score: 93%
> Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
> Director: David Lean
> Second highest grossing film: Sayonara
1958: South Pacific
> Domestic box office: $36.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $495.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 82%
> RT audience score: 69%
> Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
> Director: Joshua Logan
> Second highest grossing film: Auntie Mame
1959: Ben-Hur
> Domestic box office: $73.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $817.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 86%
> RT audience score: 89%
> Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
> Director: William Wyler
> Second highest grossing film: The Shaggy Dog
1960: Swiss Family Robinson
> Domestic box office: $40.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $444.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 82%
> RT audience score: 78%
> Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro
> Director: Ken Annakin
> Second highest grossing film: Psycho
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1961: One Hundred and One Dalmatians
> Domestic box office: $102.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.1 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 76%
> Cast: Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O’Malley, Martha Wentworth
> Director: Clyde Geronimi
> Second highest grossing film: West Side Story
1962: Cape Fear
> Domestic box office: $76.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $824.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.7 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 96%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin
> Director: J. Lee Thompson
> Second highest grossing film: How the West Was Won
1963: Cleopatra
> Domestic box office: $57.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $607.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 62%
> RT audience score: 69%
> Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
> Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
> Second highest grossing film: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1964: Mary Poppins
> Domestic box office: $102.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $767.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
> Director: Robert Stevenson
> Second highest grossing film: My Fair Lady
1965: The Sound of Music
> Domestic box office: $163.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.2 billion)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 83%
> RT audience score: 91%
> Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
> Director: Robert Wise
> Second highest grossing film: Doctor Zhivago
1966: The Bible: In the Beginning…
> Domestic box office: $34.9 million (Inflation-adjusted: $262.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 0%
> RT audience score: 56%
> Cast: Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston
> Director: John Huston
> Second highest grossing film: Hawaii
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1967: The Graduate
> Domestic box office: $104.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $783.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 87%
> RT audience score: 90%
> Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
> Director: Mike Nichols
> Second highest grossing film: The Jungle Book
1968: Funny Girl
> Domestic box office: $58.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $399.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.4 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 85%
> Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
> Director: William Wyler
> Second highest grossing film: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
> Domestic box office: $102.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $660.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 88%
> RT audience score: 92%
> Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
> Director: George Roy Hill
> Second highest grossing film: Midnight Cowboy
1970: Love Story
> Domestic box office: $106.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $590.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 68%
> RT audience score: 75%
> Cast: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland
> Director: Arthur Hiller
> Second highest grossing film: Airport
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1971: Billy Jack
> Domestic box office: $98.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $544.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 63%
> RT audience score: 63%
> Cast: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Victor Izay
> Director: Tom Laughlin
> Second highest grossing film: Fiddler on the Roof
1972: The Godfather
> Domestic box office: $135.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $770.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 9.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 97%
> RT audience score: 98%
> Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
> Director: Francis Ford Coppola
> Second highest grossing film: The Poseidon Adventure
1973: The Exorcist
> Domestic box office: $193.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.0 billion)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 83%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
> Director: William Friedkin
> Second highest grossing film: The Sting
1974: Blazing Saddles
> Domestic box office: $119.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $579.2 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.7 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 88%
> RT audience score: 91%
> Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
> Director: Mel Brooks
> Second highest grossing film: The Towering Inferno
1975: Jaws
> Domestic box office: $260.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.2 billion)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 90%
> Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
> Director: Steven Spielberg
> Second highest grossing film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976: Rocky
> Domestic box office: $117.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $504.2 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 92%
> RT audience score: 69%
> Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
> Director: John G. Avildsen
> Second highest grossing film: A Star Is Born
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1977: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
> Domestic box office: $195.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $804.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 92%
> RT audience score: 96%
> Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
> Director: George Lucas
> Second highest grossing film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978: Grease
> Domestic box office: $153.1 million (Inflation-adjusted: $599.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 75%
> RT audience score: 87%
> Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
> Director: Randal Kleiser
> Second highest grossing film: National Lampoon’s Animal House
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
> Domestic box office: $106.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $394.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 88%
> RT audience score: 89%
> Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
> Director: Robert Benton
> Second highest grossing film: The Amityville Horror
1980: Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
> Domestic box office: $181.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $617.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.7 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 94%
> RT audience score: 97%
> Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
> Director: Irvin Kershner
> Second highest grossing film: Superman II
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1981: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
> Domestic box office: $168.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $555.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.4 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 95%
> RT audience score: 96%
> Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
> Director: Steven Spielberg
> Second highest grossing film: On Golden Pond
1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
> Domestic box office: $322.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.0 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 72%
> Cast: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
> Director: Steven Spielberg
> Second highest grossing film: Tootsie
1983: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
> Domestic box office: $249.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $725.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 82%
> RT audience score: 94%
> Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
> Director: Richard Marquand
> Second highest grossing film: Terms of Endearment
1984: Beverly Hills Cop
> Domestic box office: $234.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $640.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 83%
> RT audience score: 82%
> Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher
> Director: Martin Brest
> Second highest grossing film: Ghostbusters
1985: Back to the Future
> Domestic box office: $212.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $547.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 96%
> RT audience score: 94%
> Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
> Director: Robert Zemeckis
> Second highest grossing film: Rambo – First Blood Part 2
1986: Top Gun
> Domestic box office: $179.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $443.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 56%
> RT audience score: 83%
> Cast: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
> Director: Tony Scott
> Second highest grossing film: Platoon
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1987: Three Men and a Baby
> Domestic box office: $167.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $393.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 76%
> RT audience score: 47%
> Cast: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis
> Director: Leonard Nimoy
> Second highest grossing film: Fatal Attraction
1988: Rain Man
> Domestic box office: $172.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $385.2 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 89%
> RT audience score: 90%
> Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
> Director: Barry Levinson
> Second highest grossing film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Batman
> Domestic box office: $251.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $576.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 71%
> RT audience score: 84%
> Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
> Director: Tim Burton
> Second highest grossing film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990: Home Alone
> Domestic box office: $284.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $620.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 67%
> RT audience score: 80%
> Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
> Director: Chris Columbus
> Second highest grossing film: Ghost
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1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
> Domestic box office: $203.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $442.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 94%
> Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
> Director: James Cameron
> Second highest grossing film: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1992: Aladdin
> Domestic box office: $217.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $479.7 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 95%
> RT audience score: 92%
> Cast: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman
> Director: Ron Clements
> Second highest grossing film: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1993: Jurassic Park
> Domestic box office: $402.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $890.6 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 91%
> RT audience score: 91%
> Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
> Director: Steven Spielberg
> Second highest grossing film: Mrs. Doubtfire
1994: The Lion King
> Domestic box office: $421.8 million (Inflation-adjusted: $946.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 93%
> Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg
> Director: Roger Allers
> Second highest grossing film: Forrest Gump
1995: Toy Story
> Domestic box office: $192.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $405.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 100%
> RT audience score: 92%
> Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
> Director: John Lasseter
> Second highest grossing film: Batman Forever
1996: Independence Day
> Domestic box office: $306.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $634.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 67%
> RT audience score: 75%
> Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell
> Director: Roland Emmerich
> Second highest grossing film: Twister
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1997: Men in Black
> Domestic box office: $250.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $500.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 92%
> RT audience score: 79%
> Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D’Onofrio
> Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
> Second highest grossing film: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998: Titanic
> Domestic box office: $443.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $865.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 89%
> RT audience score: 69%
> Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
> Director: James Cameron
> Second highest grossing film: Saving Private Ryan
1999: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
> Domestic box office: $474.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $859.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 52%
> RT audience score: 59%
> Cast: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd
> Director: George Lucas
> Second highest grossing film: The Sixth Sense
2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
> Domestic box office: $260.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $442.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 49%
> RT audience score: 56%
> Cast: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Kelley, Jeffrey Tambor
> Director: Ron Howard
> Second highest grossing film: Cast Away
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2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
> Domestic box office: $317.9 million (Inflation-adjusted: $515.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 81%
> RT audience score: 82%
> Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith
> Director: Chris Columbus
> Second highest grossing film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Spider-Man
> Domestic box office: $403.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $637.6 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 90%
> RT audience score: 67%
> Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco
> Director: Sam Raimi
> Second highest grossing film: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003: Finding Nemo
> Domestic box office: $380.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $578.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.1 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 99%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
> Director: Andrew Stanton
> Second highest grossing film: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Shrek 2
> Domestic box office: $441.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $650.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 89%
> RT audience score: 69%
> Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews
> Director: Andrew Adamson
> Second highest grossing film: Spider-Man 2
2005: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
> Domestic box office: $380.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $543.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 80%
> RT audience score: 66%
> Cast: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson
> Director: George Lucas
> Second highest grossing film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
> Domestic box office: $423.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $592.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 53%
> RT audience score: 72%
> Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport
> Director: Gore Verbinski
> Second highest grossing film: Night at the Museum
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2007: Spider-Man 3
> Domestic box office: $336.5 million (Inflation-adjusted: $448.1 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 63%
> RT audience score: 51%
> Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
> Director: Sam Raimi
> Second highest grossing film: Shrek the Third
2008: The Dark Knight
> Domestic box office: $533.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $680.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 9.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 94%
> RT audience score: 94%
> Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
> Director: Christopher Nolan
> Second highest grossing film: Iron Man
2009: Avatar
> Domestic box office: $760.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $928.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 82%
> RT audience score: 82%
> Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
> Director: James Cameron
> Second highest grossing film: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2010: Toy Story 3
> Domestic box office: $415.0 million (Inflation-adjusted: $481.8 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 98%
> RT audience score: 90%
> Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty
> Director: Lee Unkrich
> Second highest grossing film: Alice in Wonderland
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2011: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
> Domestic box office: $352.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $407.0 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.2 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 35%
> RT audience score: 55%
> Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
> Director: Michael Bay
> Second highest grossing film: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
2012: The Avengers
> Domestic box office: $623.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $717.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 91%
> RT audience score: 91%
> Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner
> Director: Joss Whedon
> Second highest grossing film: The Dark Knight Rises
2013: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
> Domestic box office: $424.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $478.5 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.5 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 90%
> RT audience score: 89%
> Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman
> Director: Francis Lawrence
> Second highest grossing film: Iron Man 3
2014: American Sniper
> Domestic box office: $350.1 million (Inflation-adjusted: $392.6 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 72%
> RT audience score: 84%
> Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis
> Director: Clint Eastwood
> Second highest grossing film: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
2015: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
> Domestic box office: $936.7 million (Inflation-adjusted: $1.0 billion)
> IMDb rating: 7.9 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 93%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson
> Director: J.J. Abrams
> Second highest grossing film: Jurassic World
2016: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
> Domestic box office: $532.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $563.6 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.8 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 84%
> RT audience score: 86%
> Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen
> Director: Gareth Edwards
> Second highest grossing film: Finding Dory
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2017: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi
> Domestic box office: $620.2 million (Inflation-adjusted: $633.3 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.0 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 90%
> RT audience score: 42%
> Cast: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
> Director: Rian Johnson
> Second highest grossing film: Beauty and the Beast
2018: Black Panther
> Domestic box office: $700.1 million (Inflation-adjusted: $703.9 million)
> IMDb rating: 7.3 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 96%
> RT audience score: 79%
> Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira
> Director: Ryan Coogler
> Second highest grossing film: Avengers: Infinity War
2019: Avengers: Endgame
> Domestic box office: $858.3 million (Inflation-adjusted: $858.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 8.4 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 94%
> RT audience score: 90%
> Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth
> Director: Anthony Russo
> Second highest grossing film: The Lion King
2020: Bad Boys for Life
> Domestic box office: $204.4 million (Inflation-adjusted: $204.4 million)
> IMDb rating: 6.6 out of 10
> Tomatometer score: 77%
> RT audience score: 96%
> Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig
> Director: Adil El Arbi
> Second highest grossing film: Sonic the Hedgehog
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