20 Most Recent Best Picture Winners Ranked by Domestic Box Office
(Adjusted for Inflation)
How do recent Best Picture winners stack up against each other in terms of their box office numbers (domestic, adjusted for inflation)? We also added in this year’s Oscar nominated films to see how they compare.
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# | Film (year) | Box Office (in millions) |
| 1. | Titanic (1997) | $1.17B |
| 2. | Lord of the Rings: TROTK (2003) | $536 |
| 3. | Gladiator (2000) | $302 |
| 4. | A Beautiful Mind (2001) | $255 |
| 5. | Chicago (2002) | $246 |
| The Martian (2015 Nominee) | $228 | |
| 6. | American Beauty (1999) | $216 |
| 7. | The Departed (2006) | $175 |
| 8. | Shakespeare in Love (1998) | $172 |
| 9. | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | $171 |
| The Revenant (2015 Nominee) | $166 | |
| Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 Nominee) | $153 | |
| 10. | Braveheart (1995) | $150 |
| 11. | The English Patient (1996) | $150 |
| 12. | The King’s Speech (2010) | $149 |
| 13. | Argo (2012) | $147 |
| 14. | Million Dollar Baby (2004) | $136 |
| 15. | No Country For Old Men (2007) | $92 |
| 16. | Crash (2005) | $74 |
| Bridge of Spies (2015 Nominee) | $72 | |
| The Big Short (2015 Nominee) | $67 | |
| 17. | 12 Years A Slave (2013) | $60 |
| 18. | The Artist (2011) | $49 |
| 19. | Birdman (2014) | $44 |
| Spotlight (2015 Nominee) | $38 | |
| Brooklyn (2015 Nominee) | $35 | |
| 20. | The Hurt Locker (2009) | $19 |
| Room (2015 Nominee) | $12 |
