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Highest Grossing Film Released Each Year (U.S.A. Domestic)

Data taken from here and supplemented by Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo.

Starting with 1913 because I guess it's really hard to get data from earlier years.

To get a sense of how "good" the most successful films are throughout the years, here are the average ratings of the films for each decade:
1910s - 2.97
1920s - 3.20
1930s - 3.74
1940s - 3.31
1950s - 3.71
1960s - 3.91
1970s - 3.99
1980s - 3.86
1990s - 3.87
2000s - 3.92
2010s - 3.67
2020s - 3.40

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Status: Updated through 2025
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Block or Report
  • Traffic in Souls

    1

  • The Spoilers

    2

  • The Birth of a Nation

    3

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    4

  • Cleopatra

    5

  • Mickey

    6

  • The Miracle Man

    7

  • Something to Think About

    8

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    9

  • Robin Hood

    10

  • The Covered Wagon

    11

  • The Sea Hawk

    12

  • The Big Parade

    13

  • Aloma of the South Seas

    14

  • The Jazz Singer

    15

  • The Singing Fool

    16

  • The Broadway Melody

    17

  • Tom Sawyer

    18

  • Frankenstein

    19

  • Shanghai Express

    20

  • King Kong

    21

  • It Happened One Night

    22

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    23

  • Modern Times

    24

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    25

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    26

  • Gone with the Wind

    27

  • Pinocchio

    28

  • Sergeant York

    29

  • Bambi

    30

  • This Is the Army

    31

  • Going My Way

    32

  • Mom and Dad

    33

  • Song of the South

    34

  • Forever Amber

    35

  • The Snake Pit

    36

  • Samson and Delilah

    37

  • Cinderella

    38

  • Quo Vadis

    39

  • This Is Cinerama

    40

  • Peter Pan

    41

  • Rear Window

    42

  • Lady and the Tramp

    43

  • The Ten Commandments

    44

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    45

  • South Pacific

    46

  • Ben-Hur

    47

  • Spartacus

    48

  • West Side Story

    49

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    50

  • Cleopatra

    51

  • My Fair Lady

    52

  • The Sound of Music

    53

  • Hawaii

    54

  • The Graduate

    55

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    56

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    57

  • Love Story

    58

  • Fiddler on the Roof

    59

  • The Godfather

    60

  • The Sting

    61

  • Blazing Saddles

    62

  • Jaws

    63

  • Rocky

    64

  • Star Wars

    65

  • Grease

    66

  • Kramer vs. Kramer

    67

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    68

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    69

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    70

  • Return of the Jedi

    71

  • Ghostbusters

    72

  • Back to the Future

    73

  • Top Gun

    74

  • 3 Men and a Baby

    75

  • Rain Man

    76

  • Batman

    77

  • Home Alone

    78

  • Beauty and the Beast

    79

  • Aladdin

    80

  • Jurassic Park

    81

  • The Lion King

    82

  • Toy Story

    83

  • Independence Day

    84

  • Titanic

    85

  • Saving Private Ryan

    86

  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

    87

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas

    88

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    89

  • Spider-Man

    90

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    91

  • Shrek 2

    92

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    93

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    94

  • Spider-Man 3

    95

  • The Dark Knight

    96

  • Avatar

    97

  • Toy Story 3

    98

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    99

  • The Avengers

    100