All Time Domestic Box Office Results

All Time Box Office

DOMESTIC GROSSES
Viewing Chart as of Jan. 1, 1982

#1–100 - #101–200 - #201–300 - #301–400 - #401–499

Data as of: or ( / / )

Rank	Title(click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross	Year^
1	Star Wars	Fox	$307,263,857	1977^
2	Jaws	Uni.	$260,000,000	1975
3	The Empire Strikes Back	Fox	$209,398,025	1980^
4	The Exorcist	WB	$193,000,000	1973^
5	Gone with the Wind	MGM	$189,523,031	1939^
6	Grease	Par.	$159,978,870	1978^
7	The Sound of Music	Fox	$158,671,368	1965
8	The Sting	Uni.	$156,000,000	1973
9	National Lampoon's Animal House	Uni.	$141,600,000	1978^
10	Superman	WB	$134,218,018	1978
11	The Godfather	Par.	$133,698,921	1972^
12	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Col.	$132,088,635	1977^
13	Smokey and the Bandit	Uni.	$126,737,428	1977
14	Blazing Saddles	WB	$119,500,000	1974
15	Rocky	UA	$117,235,147	1976
16	The Towering Inferno	Fox	$116,000,000	1974
17	American Graffiti	Uni.	$115,000,000	1973
18	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	Fox	$112,892,319	1975
19	Doctor Zhivago	MGM	$111,721,910	1965
20	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	UA	$108,981,275	1975
21	Superman II	WB	$108,185,706	1981
22	Love Story	Par.	$106,397,186	1970
23	Kramer Vs. Kramer	Col.	$106,260,000	1979
24	The Graduate	AVCO	$104,642,560	1967^
25	9 to 5	Fox	$103,290,500	1980
26	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Fox	$102,308,889	1969
27	Mary Poppins	Dis.	$102,272,727	1964^
28	Stir Crazy	Col.	$101,300,000	1980
29	Airport	Uni.	$100,489,151	1970
30	Saturday Night Fever	Par.	$94,213,184	1977
31	The Amityville Horror	AIP	$86,432,000	1979
32	Young Frankenstein	Fox	$86,273,333	1974
33	Stripes	Col.	$85,297,000	1981
34	Every Which Way But Loose	WB	$85,196,485	1978
35	Rocky II	UA	$85,182,160	1979
36	The Poseidon Adventure	Fox	$84,563,118	1972
37	Airplane!	Par.	$83,453,539	1980
38	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Par.	$82,258,456	1979
39	Jaws 2	Uni.	$81,766,007	1978^
40	Heaven Can Wait (1978)	Par.	$81,640,278	1978
41	M.A.S.H.	Fox	$81,600,000	1970
42	Earthquake	Uni.	$79,666,653	1974
43	Alien	Fox	$78,944,891	1979^
44	Apocalypse Now	MGM	$78,784,010	1979^
45	Hooper	WB	$78,000,000	1978
46	10	WB	$74,865,517	1979
47	Ben-Hur	MGM	$74,000,000	1959
48	The Jungle Book	Dis.	$73,741,048	1967^
49	The Jerk	Uni.	$73,691,419	1979
50	The Cannonball Run	Fox	$72,179,579	1981
51	My Fair Lady	WB	$72,000,000	1964
52	Any Which Way You Can	WB	$70,687,344	1980
53	All the President's Men	WB	$70,600,000	1976
54	Moonraker	MGM	$70,308,099	1979
55	Private Benjamin	WB	$69,847,348	1980
56	Coal Miner's Daughter	Uni.	$67,182,787	1980
57	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Dis.	$66,596,803	1937^
58	Smokey and the Bandit II	Uni.	$66,132,626	1980
59	What's Up, Doc?	WB	$66,000,000	1972
60	The Ten Commandments	Par.	$65,500,000	1956
61	The Muppet Movie	AFD	$65,200,000	1979
62	Thunderball	UA	$63,595,658	1965
63	Lady and the Tramp	Dis.	$62,473,244	1955^
64	The Electric Horseman	Col.	$61,801,971	1979
65	Patton	Fox	$61,749,765	1970
66	The Omen	Fox	$60,922,980	1976
67	The Blue Lagoon	Col.	$58,853,106	1980
68	Cleopatra (1963)	Fox	$57,777,778	1963
69	The Blues Brothers	Uni.	$57,229,890	1980
70	2001: A Space Odyssey	MGM	$56,715,371	1968^
71	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Col.	$56,666,667	1967
72	For Your Eyes Only	MGM	$54,812,802	1981
73	Ordinary People	Par.	$54,766,923	1980
74	Papillon	AAP	$53,267,000	1973
75	King Kong (1976)	Par.	$52,614,445	1976
76	Funny Girl	Col.	$52,000,000	1968^
77	The China Syndrome	Col.	$51,718,367	1979
78	The French Connection	Fox	$51,700,000	1971
79	The Love Bug	Dis.	$51,264,000	1969
80	Goldfinger	UA	$51,081,062	1964
81	Silver Streak	Fox	$51,079,064	1976
82	101 Dalmatians	Dis.	$51,000,000	1961^
83	A Bridge Too Far	UA	$50,750,000	1977
84	The Four Seasons	Uni.	$50,427,646	1981
85	Dog Day Afternoon	WB	$50,000,000	1975
86	Popeye	Par.	$49,823,037	1980
87	Revenge of the Pink Panther	UA	$49,579,269	1978
88	Shampoo	Col.	$49,407,734	1975
89	The Deer Hunter	Uni.	$48,979,328	1978
90	The Godfather Part II	Par.	$47,542,841	1974
91	The Deep	Col.	$47,346,365	1977
92	Halloween	CIP	$47,000,000	1978
93	Urban Cowboy	Par.	$46,918,287	1980
94	The Spy Who Loved Me	UA	$46,838,673	1977
95	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	MGM	$46,332,858	1963
96	The Enforcer	WB	$46,236,000	1976
97	The Way We Were	Col.	$45,000,000	1973
98	Foul Play	Par.	$44,999,621	1978
99	The End	UA	$44,917,151	1978
100	Midnight Cowboy	UA	$44,785,053	1969

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CHART NOTES
^ Indicates movie made its gross over multiple releases, e.g., E.T. was re-released in 1985 and a special edition was released in 2002. Clicking on these titles will display a breakdown of releases. Most of the pre-1980 movies listed on this chart had multiple, undocumented releases over the years.