| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | - | - | - | $11,570,303 | 3,381 | $313,364,114 | Dec 19 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 2 | Ali | - | - | - | $10,216,625 | 2,521 | $58,203,105 | Dec 25 | Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | false |
| 3 | Ocean's Eleven | - | - | - | $4,397,415 | 3,075 | $183,417,150 | Dec 7 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 4 | Vanilla Sky | - | - | - | $2,975,000 | 2,842 | $100,618,344 | Dec 14 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 5 | Kate & Leopold | - | - | - | $2,562,448 | 2,467 | $47,121,859 | Dec 25 | Miramax | false |
| 6 | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | - | - | - | $2,166,808 | 3,151 | $80,936,232 | Dec 21 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 7 | How High | - | - | - | $2,076,240 | 1,273 | $31,178,740 | Dec 21 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 8 | A Beautiful Mind | - | - | - | $2,040,980 | 2,250 | $170,742,341 | Dec 21 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | - | - | - | $1,936,000 | 3,672 | $317,575,550 | Nov 16 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 10 | Not Another Teen Movie | - | - | - | $1,496,888 | 2,365 | $38,252,284 | Dec 14 | Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | false |
| 11 | Joe Somebody | - | - | - | $1,169,202 | 2,517 | $22,771,646 | Dec 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 12 | Monsters, Inc. | - | - | - | $962,926 | 3,649 | $255,873,250 | Nov 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 13 | Behind Enemy Lines | - | - | - | $810,883 | 2,844 | $58,856,790 | Nov 30 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 14 | The Royal Tenenbaums | - | - | - | $420,279 | 999 | $52,364,010 | Dec 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 15 | The Shipping News | - | - | - | $318,502 | 434 | $11,434,216 | Dec 25 | Miramax | false |
| 16 | Spy Game | - | - | - | $157,815 | 2,770 | $62,362,560 | Nov 21 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 17 | Black Knight | - | - | - | $93,844 | 2,571 | $33,426,971 | Nov 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 18 | Shallow Hal | - | - | - | $47,154 | 2,799 | $70,839,203 | Nov 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 19 | K-PAX | - | - | - | $8,580 | 2,581 | $50,338,485 | Oct 26 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 20 | Mulholland Drive | - | - | - | $8,575 | 247 | $7,220,243 | Oct 8 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 21 | Moulin Rouge! | - | - | - | $2,794 | 2,283 | $57,386,607 | May 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
