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HIghest Grossing Films by Genre
Guess the films with the highest worldwide box office for each given genre or sub-genre.
Grosses are in millions of US dollars.
According to BoxOfficeMojo.
Not adjusted for inflation.
Unless otherwise specified, English-language, live-action films.
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Genre can be a pretty subjective thing. Most films exist in multiple genres simultaneously, and there will be arguments over which films belong in which genres as film genres are dynamic and amorphous.
I used my own well-informed, but subjective, opinions to classify all of these movies. And I made some subjective decisions about what to put where. For example, I decided that in the case of most comic book movies, which have increasingly come to dominate international box office, the genre of "comic book movie" pretty much always subsumes all others - so even though AntMan could theoretically be considered a heist movie, and Endgame a caper, and some could be horror, and most are action comedies, I'm filing the majority just under comic book.
There is one objective truth of genre: Star Wars is not Sci-Fi.
Animation because, while animated movies often do huge box office, most people don't think of "Cars" when they're thinking of "sports movies" - sort of the same way that comic book movies are subsumed by that label I feel animated films are usually subsumed by the fact that they are animated.
And foreign language because, even though it makes very little difference currently in any of the rankings ("Hi, Mom" could technically be counted as the top-grossing time travel movie ever made, and there's some film by Ang Lee that is now the highest grossing NC-17 movie of all time), with the explosion of the Chinese market the last few years, it seems all but inevitable that, fairly soon, the Chinese market will be more important than the American one. And I just don't know enough about Chinese movies to keep this up to date including them.
(I actually only tried lotr, so I don't know if you accept the whole title)
There were many films eclipsed by their own sequels. The Avengers were overtaken by Endgame. Insurgent trumped Divergent. Jurassic Park was passed up by Jurassic World (though JP remains the top fiction adaptation and top sci-fi horror film; the sequels pretty well abandoned the horror genre). Hotel Transylvania was replaced by Hotel Transylvania 3.
Some other updates:
Bohemian Rhapsody replaced American Sniper as the top Biopic.
Furious 7 took the title of top Action Blockbuster from Dark of the Moon and top car chase movie from one of its own predecessors.
Bad Boys for Life topped Live Free or Die Hard as the top Shoot 'em Up and Lethal Weapon 3 as the top buddy cop movie.
The Lion King remake bypassed the Alice in Wonderland remake.
Warcraft took the title of top video game adaptation from Prince of Persia.
Mission Impossible - Fallout beat Sex and the City as top television adaptation.
Dunkirk became the top WW2 movie and top war movie beating out Saving Private Ryan and American Sniper, respectively.
Toy Story 3 was replaced by Jumanji 3 as top comedy because of the new rule about animation. But it was also eclipsed by Minions as the top animated comedy
How the Grinch Stole Xmas *would* have been replaced by, ironically enough, The Grinch, except for the same rule.
Beauty & the Beast (2017) replaced Frozen
Wolf Warrior 2 became the highest grossing foreign-language film beating The Intouchables (along with several other Chinese films) by a large margin.
Ne Zha (another Chinese film) beat Spirited Away to become the top foreign language animated film, but even in Japan Spirited Away has been usurped by some anime horror film about a demon train or something.
The Lion King (1993 and 2019 versions) became the top G and PG rated films, displacing Toy Story 3 and Frozen. And The Passion was defeated by Joker for the Rated R title.
Some previous mistakes were also corrected:
This is It has been the highest grossing documentary film for a while, beating Fahrenheit 911, if you look at international gross and not just US.
I originally replaced The Road to Perdition with Oblivion for top adaptation of a graphic novel, but upon further research found the graphic novel of Oblivion never actually existed; and then I decided that 300 should count in this category so gave the title to that film.
World War Z was previously credited as being the top zombie film when really it should have been I Am Legend - though there's some debate as to whether that's a true zombie film or not.
Terminator 2 previously held the title of top robot apocalypse movie. I had forgotten The Matrix.
And... lastly... I came across the fact that Gravity (2003) took in 723 million at the box office, slightly more than Interstellar, but... I decided that floating around in low Earth orbit doesn't really count as "exploration"... so I left that category as it was. I don't remember if I found this before or not.