Movie Moola

TOP GROSSING MOVIES

19802007 total: $8.33 billion COMEDY
($1.04 billion) ($3.77 billion)

For the last 27 years, the biggest money makers have been action movies rated PG and PG-13; Best Picture winners tend to be rated R dramas (half were rated R and almost two-thirds were dramas). Only four movies out of 28, shown in boldface, have been the top grossing movie and won Best Picture.

PG-13

($3.32 billion)

PG

19802007 total: $3.97 billion

BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS

Forrest Gump

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Home Alone (1990) Three Men and a Baby (1987)

(1994)

ANIMATION
($0.85 billion)

($1.98 billion)

PG-13

MUSICAL
($0.17 billion)

G
Spider-Man 3 (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest (2006) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Spider-Man (2002) Independence Day (1996) Jurassic Park (1993) Batman (1989) Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
(1999)

($0.41 billion)

Chicago
(2002)

Shrek 2
(2004)

Toy Story (1995) Aladdin (1992)

Million Dollar Baby (2004) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Titanic (1997) Dances With Wolves (1990) The Last Emperor (1987) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Top Gun (1986) Back to the Future (1985) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Empire Strikes Back (1980)

DRAMA
($0.77 billion)

COMEDY
($0.54 billion)

($0.47 billion)

PG

($2.25 billion)

DRAMA

Titanic
(1997)

ACTION

Forrest Gump
(1994)

Out of Africa (1985) Driving Miss Daisy

(1989)

($0.88 billion)

Amadeus (1984) Terms of Endearment (1983) Gandhi (1982) Chariots of Fire (1981)

($0.83 billion)

Gladiator (2000) Braveheart (1995) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Terminator 2 (1991) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Unforgiven (1986) Platoon (1986)

Rain Man
(1988)

Shakespeare in Love (1998) No Country for Old Men (2007) The Departed
(2006)

American Beauty (1999) The English Patient (1996) Schindlers List (1993) Rain Man (1988) Ordinary People (1980)

ACTION

($5.66 billion)

The size of each circle represents the amount of money the category earned. The top grossing movie for the year and the Best Picture Oscar winner for the year can be found in the overlap of their genre and ratings categories. While movie ratings are plain, genre labels are more subjective. It is common for a movie to belong to more than one genre, but this is not reflected in this diagram.

THRILLER
($0.13 billion)

Crash
(2005)

The Silence of the Lambs

(1991)

($1.53 billion)

Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com

Elaine He