The table below lists the top-grossing Live Action movie released in each calendar year (based on worldwide box office). Click on the year number for a list of all the Live Action films released that year. The "Annual Stats" links will take you to a summary of the domestic film business for Live Action movies for the year in question (this part of our archive starts in 1995). Click on the movie name to see information on the individual film.
| Year | Annual Stats | Total Movies | Average Production Budget | Combined Worldwide Box Office | No. 1 Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBD | 1,664 | ||||
| 2029 | 14 | ||||
| 2027 | 3 | ||||
| 2026 | 16 | $5,000,000 | |||
| 2025 | 90 | ||||
| 2024 | Annual Stats | 2,701 | $72,160,000 | $5,804,757,452 | Dune: Part Two |
| 2023 | Annual Stats | 5,283 | $76,025,847 | $20,565,894,415 | Barbie |
| 2022 | Annual Stats | 4,397 | $47,910,570 | $12,183,607,470 | Top Gun: Maverick |
| 2021 | Annual Stats | 3,228 | $53,264,837 | $13,835,888,225 | Chang jin hu |
| 2020 | Annual Stats | 3,440 | $32,049,530 | $6,408,400,362 | Ba bai |
| 2019 | Annual Stats | 3,954 | $32,140,856 | $21,812,115,090 | Spider-Man: Far From Home |
| 2018 | Annual Stats | 3,624 | $28,063,809 | $24,252,073,430 | Black Panther |
| 2017 | Annual Stats | 3,152 | $34,194,903 | $26,541,809,058 | The Fate of the Furious |
| 2016 | Annual Stats | 3,018 | $27,984,897 | $22,217,883,479 | Captain America: Civil War |
| 2015 | Annual Stats | 2,636 | $21,325,708 | $26,269,019,529 | Jurassic World |
| 2014 | Annual Stats | 1,429 | $23,618,830 | $20,978,569,019 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 |
| 2013 | Annual Stats | 1,279 | $29,850,614 | $20,606,168,397 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire |
| 2012 | Annual Stats | 1,252 | $28,144,117 | $22,698,057,344 | Skyfall |
| 2011 | Annual Stats | 1,046 | $27,914,577 | $18,620,746,299 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
| 2010 | Annual Stats | 941 | $28,589,830 | $16,810,552,211 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse |
| 2009 | Annual Stats | 680 | $30,505,515 | $15,884,644,976 | 2012 |
| 2008 | Annual Stats | 943 | $29,031,188 | $20,583,206,711 | The Dark Knight |
| 2007 | Annual Stats | 806 | $28,562,141 | $16,747,867,301 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End |
| 2006 | Annual Stats | 626 | $26,806,095 | $16,438,320,033 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest |
| 2005 | Annual Stats | 580 | $29,861,414 | $12,507,968,512 | Mr. and Mrs. Smith |
| 2004 | Annual Stats | 581 | $33,194,747 | $14,992,237,572 | Spider-Man 2 |
| 2003 | Annual Stats | 453 | $32,350,128 | $13,999,192,768 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| 2002 | Annual Stats | 375 | $28,747,988 | $12,836,870,846 | Spider-Man |
| 2001 | Annual Stats | 332 | $29,787,622 | $11,096,993,757 | Ocean's Eleven |
| 2000 | Annual Stats | 354 | $31,022,855 | $12,073,999,413 | Mission: Impossible 2 |
| 1999 | Annual Stats | 381 | $29,214,605 | $11,144,345,200 | The Sixth Sense |
| 1998 | Annual Stats | 330 | $30,540,203 | $10,325,731,570 | Armageddon |
| 1997 | Annual Stats | 303 | $39,009,051 | $11,641,907,538 | Titanic |
| 1996 | Annual Stats | 298 | $30,348,736 | $9,010,365,627 | Independence Day |
| 1995 | Annual Stats | 300 | $34,596,575 | $9,415,070,447 | Die Hard: With a Vengeance |
| 1994 | 240 | $29,448,648 | $7,827,400,146 | Forrest Gump | |
| 1993 | 204 | $20,912,646 | $6,745,134,218 | Mrs. Doubtfire | |
| 1992 | 202 | $25,288,571 | $6,347,563,419 | The Bodyguard | |
| 1991 | 232 | $19,487,053 | $5,195,700,605 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | |
| 1990 | 234 | $27,194,333 | $6,529,319,591 | Ghost | |
| 1989 | 229 | $18,261,143 | $5,612,436,181 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | |
| 1988 | 232 | $13,506,452 | $4,217,660,217 | Rain Man | |
| 1987 | 235 | $14,425,000 | $4,054,561,015 | Fatal Attraction | |
| 1986 | 236 | $14,001,471 | $3,473,209,053 | Top Gun | |
| 1985 | 231 | $13,093,333 | $3,699,464,046 | Back to the Future | |
| 1984 | 215 | $15,742,857 | $3,880,417,624 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | |
| 1983 | 198 | $13,120,786 | $3,165,401,896 | Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi | |
| 1982 | 175 | $12,272,414 | $3,534,824,852 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | |
| 1981 | 163 | $12,225,000 | $2,534,106,335 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
| 1980 | 147 | $13,498,138 | $2,529,764,582 | Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back | |
| 1979 | 132 | $13,725,000 | $2,323,177,517 | Moonraker | |
| 1978 | 102 | $13,308,929 | $2,088,314,171 | Grease | |
| 1977 | 93 | $17,753,846 | $2,318,029,149 | Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope | |
| 1976 | 104 | $5,577,778 | $1,069,085,690 | Rocky | |
| 1975 | 109 | $4,662,500 | $1,326,382,033 | Jaws | |
| 1974 | 107 | $5,341,538 | $1,079,578,380 | Towering Inferno | |
| 1973 | 95 | $5,101,435 | $1,180,345,611 | The Exorcist | |
| 1972 | 83 | $3,520,000 | $643,538,345 | The Godfather | |
| 1971 | 96 | $4,150,000 | $525,695,078 | Diamonds Are Forever | |
| 1970 | 112 | $8,480,579 | $690,858,913 | Love Story | |
| 1969 | 90 | $9,820,000 | $616,012,401 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
| 1968 | 86 | $4,735,111 | $613,899,307 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | |
| 1967 | 72 | $3,833,333 | $644,847,729 | You Only Live Twice | |
| 1966 | 83 | $4,796,300 | $378,357,057 | The Bible | |
| 1965 | 71 | $8,300,000 | $815,887,118 | The Sound of Music | |
| 1964 | 68 | $6,211,429 | $423,922,869 | Goldfinger | |
| 1963 | 67 | $14,680,000 | $359,484,556 | Cleopatra | |
| 1962 | 69 | $5,376,667 | $215,352,380 | Lawrence of Arabia | |
| 1961 | 51 | $4,500,000 | $217,159,301 | West Side Story | |
| 1960 | 60 | $7,500,000 | $199,181,385 | Spartacus | |
| 1959 | 46 | $7,127,949 | $200,563,017 | Ben-Hur | |
| 1958 | 44 | $3,000,000 | $76,646,483 | Auntie Mame | |
| 1957 | 51 | $1,670,000 | $60,160,074 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
| 1956 | 60 | $4,260,000 | $230,142,941 | The Ten Commandments | |
| 1955 | 46 | $805,000 | $35,091,882 | Galapagos | |
| 1954 | 55 | $2,955,000 | $166,469,123 | White Christmas | |
| 1953 | 51 | $942,000 | $109,642,116 | From Here to Eternity | |
| 1952 | 35 | $2,423,333 | $76,018,222 | The Greatest Show on Earth | |
| 1951 | 41 | $3,387,500 | $95,071,366 | Quo Vadis? | |
| 1950 | 41 | $3,768,785 | $41,916,123 | King Solomon's Mines | |
| 1949 | 35 | $1,000,000 | $43,688,350 | Samson and Delilah | |
| 1948 | 43 | $3,350,000 | $27,316,916 | Red River | |
| 1947 | 39 | $2,000,000 | $67,694,282 | Miracle on 34th Street | |
| 1946 | 31 | $3,242,200 | $111,712,641 | Notorious | |
| 1945 | 28 | $1,375,000 | $61,388,668 | The Bells of St. Mary's | |
| 1944 | 27 | $2,361,000 | $32,692,968 | Going My Way | |
| 1943 | 26 | $1,833,000 | $69,590,449 | This is the Army | |
| 1942 | 32 | $134,000 | $37,787,287 | Mrs. Miniver | |
| 1941 | 30 | $1,250,000 | $28,039,944 | Sergeant York | |
| 1940 | 33 | $1,304,333 | $21,476,639 | Boom Town | |
| 1939 | 38 | $2,725,667 | $435,206,741 | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1938 | 25 | $2,000,000 | $6,946,527 | Alexander's Ragtime Band | |
| 1937 | 28 | $416,915 | La Grande Illusion | ||
| 1936 | 31 | $1,333,333 | $8,544,788 | San Francisco | |
| 1935 | 30 | $1,034 | Design for Living | ||
| 1934 | 26 | $25,161 | L'atalante | ||
| 1933 | 31 | $437,000 | $14,483,779 | King Kong | |
| 1932 | 27 | $9,780 | The Old Dark House | ||
| 1931 | 26 | $16,098,901 | Frankenstein | ||
| 1930 | 16 | $118,349 | Der Blaue Engel | ||
| 1929 | 28 | $439,500 | $7,087,611 | The Broadway Melody | |
| 1928 | 13 | $37,840 | La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc | ||
| 1927 | 13 | $2,000,000 | $1,340,660 | Metropolis | |
| 1926 | 12 | $3,002,993 | Aloma of the South Seas | ||
| 1925 | 11 | $2,072,500 | $31,051,198 | The Big Parade | |
| 1924 | 5 | $18,835 | Der müde Tod | ||
| 1923 | 4 | ||||
| 1922 | 5 | ||||
| 1921 | 5 | $2,646,301 | The Kid | ||
| 1920 | 3 | ||||
| 1919 | 3 | $46,865 | South | ||
| 1918 | 5 | $9,685 | Godovshchina revolyutsii | ||
| 1916 | 4 | $200,000 | $8,262,102 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | |
| 1915 | 2 | $110,000 | $11,000,000 | The Birth of a Nation | |
| 1902 | 1 | $45,353 | Le Voyage dans la Lune | ||
| 1899 | 1 | $43,905 | BIFAN2020 Fantastic Short Films 1 | ||
| Total | 56,640 | $28,415,938 | $567,519,954,334 | Titanic | |