Dances with Wolves (1990) - Box Office Mojo

Dances with Wolves

Domestic Total Gross: $184,208,848
Distributor: Orion Pictures	Release Date: November 9, 1990
Genre: Western	Runtime: 3 hrs. 3 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $22 million

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$184,208,848	43.4%
+ Foreign:	$240,000,000	56.6%

= Worldwide:	$424,208,848

Domestic Summary

Release Dates:

November 9, 1990 (limited)
November 23, 1990 (wide)

Limited Opening Weekend:	$598,257
(14 theaters, $42,732 average)

Wide Opening Weekend:	$9,491,623
(#3 rank, 1,048 theaters, $9,056 average)
% of Total Gross:	5.2%
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Widest Release:

1,636 theaters

The Players

Director:	Kevin Costner
Writer:	Michael Blake
Actor:	Kevin Costner
Producers:	Kevin Costner Jim Wilson

1990 Academy Awards®

Nominated for Twelve Oscars, Including Seven Wins.
View full award breakdown...

Genres

Genre	Rank
Western	1

Charts

Chart	Rank
All Time Domestic	150
All Time Adjusted	129
All Time Worldwide	154
Yearly 1990	3
Yearly Opening Weekends 1990	127
Yearly PG-13 Rated 1990	2
Worldwide Yearly 1990	4
Opening Weeks	1,688
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend - Best Holds	6
Movies That Never Hit #1	7
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	180
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	161
Theater Averages - Opening Weekends	117
Opening Weekends	1,630
Opening Weekends - November	176
Eleventh Weekends	17
Tenth Weekends	27
Twelfth Weekends	21
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive)	9
Most Weekends in Top 5 (non-consecutive)	10
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10	6
Consecutive Weekends In Top 5	12
Martin Lurther King 4-Day Holiday Weekends	192
President's Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends	159
Seventh Weekends	33
Eighth Weekends	39
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases	783
Rated PG-13	79
Widest Independent Releases	177
Slowest to $100 million	39
Best Picture Nomination Effect	93
BOM Users' Grades	134
BOM Users' Grades (1990 Releases)	4
Charts (Premier Pass Users Only)	Rank
Highest All Time Rank (on July 16, 1991)	16
Yearly (Wide) 1990	3
Yearly Opening Weekends (Limited) 1990	21
Yearly Opening Weekends (Wide) 1990	25
Opening Weeks Adjusted	1,307
Thanksgiving 3-day Openings Adjusted	35
Thanksgiving 3-day Weekends Adjusted	86
Movies That Never #1 Adjusted	2
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	89
Theater Averages - All Time Adjusted	103
Theater Averages - Opening Weekends Adjusted	65
Opening Weekends Adjusted - November	141
Opening Weekends Adjusted	1,239
Eleventh Weekends Adjusted	17
Tenth Weekends Adjusted	25
Twelfth Weekends Adjusted	17
Seventh Weekends Adjusted	27
Eighth Weekends Adjusted	28
Rated PG-13 Adjusted	38