What Was the Biggest Movie the Year You Were Born?
From Disney classics like Mary Poppins and Aladdin, action-packed blockbusters like Independence Day, and multiple films from the Star Wars franchise, we've rounded up the top-grossing film from each year between 1960 and 2006. Which movie made the most money the year you (and your friends and family) were born? Scroll through now to find out.
1960: Swiss Family Robinson
- Total gross: $40,356,000
- Runner-up: Psycho
1961: West Side Story
- Total gross: $43,656,822
- Runner-up: The Guns of Navarone
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
- Total gross: $37,495,385
- Runner-up: The Longest Day
1963: Cleopatra
- Total gross: $57,777,778
- Runner-up: How the West Was Won
1964: Mary Poppins
- Total gross: $31,000,000
- Runner-up: My Fair Lady
1965: The Sound of Music
- Total gross: $158,671,368
- Runner-up: Doctor Zhivago
1966: The Bible: In the Beginning
- Total gross: $34,900,023
- Runner-up: Hawaii
1967: The Graduate
- Total gross: $104,642,560
- Runner-up: The Jungle Book
1968: Funny Girl
- Total gross: $52,000,000
- Runner-up: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Total gross: $102,308,889
- Runner-up: Midnight Cowboy
1970: Love Story
- Total gross: $106,397,186
- Runner-up: Airport
1971: Fiddler on the Roof
- Total gross: $83,387,607
- Runner-up: Billy Jack
1972: The Godfather
- Total gross: $188,079,500
- Runner-up: The Poseidon Adventure
1973: The Exorcist
- Total gross: $194,020,000
- Runner-up: The Sting
1974: Blazing Saddles
- Total gross: $113,360,000
- Runner-up: The Towering Inferno
1975: Jaws
- Total gross: $282,417,529
- Runner-up: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976: Rocky
- Total gross: $117,235,147
- Runner-up: A Star Is Born
1977: Star Wars
- Total gross: $307,263,857
- Runner-up: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978: Grease
- Total gross: $209,934,000
- Runner-up: Superman
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
- Total gross: $130,770,210
- Runner-up: The Amityville Horror
1980: Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
- Total gross: $209,398,025
- Runner-up: 9 to 5
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Total gross: $252,003,640
- Runner-up: On Golden Pond
1982: E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
- Total gross: $359,197,037
- Runner-up: Tootsie
1983: Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi
- Total gross: $252,583,617
- Runner-up: Terms of Endearment
1984: Beverly Hills Cop
- Total gross: $234,760,478
- Runner-up: Ghostbusters
1985: Back to the Future
- Total gross: $210,609,762
- Runner-up: Rambo: First Blood Part II
1986: Top Gun
- Total gross: $176,781,728
- Runner-up: Crocodile Dundee
1987: Three Men and a Baby
- Total gross: $167,780,960
- Runner-up: Fatal Attraction
1988: Rain Man
- Total gross: $172,825,435
- Runner-up: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Batman
- Total gross: $251,188,924
- Runner-up: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990: Home Alone
- Total gross: $285,761,243
- Runner-up: Ghost
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Total gross: $204,843,345
- Runner-up: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1992: Aladdin
- Total gross: $217,350,219
- Runner-up: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1993: Jurassic Park
- Total gross: $357,067,947
- Runner-up: Mrs. Doubtfire
1994: Forrest Gump
- Total gross: $329,694,499
- Runner-up: The Lion King
1995: Toy Story
- Total gross: $191,796,233
- Runner-up: Batman Forever
1996: Independence Day
- Total gross: $306,169,268
- Runner-up: Twister
1997: Titanic
- Total gross: $600,788,188
- Runner-up: Men in Black
1998: Saving Private Ryan
- Total gross: $216,540,909
- Runner-up: Armageddon
1999: Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace
- Total gross: $431,088,295
- Runner-up: The Sixth Sense
2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Total gross: $260,044,825
- Runner-up: Cast Away
2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Total gross: $317,575,550
- Runner-up: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Spider-Man
- Total gross: $403,706,375
- Runner-up: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Total gross: $377,027,325
- Runner-up: Finding Nemo
2004: Shrek 2
- Total gross: $441,226,247
- Runner-up: Spider-Man 2
2005: Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
- Total gross: $380,270,577
- Runner-up: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Total gross: $423,315,812
- Runner-up: Night at the Museum