From Ben-Hur in ’60 to Babe in ’95 — what was the top film when YOU were born?
WITH pubs closing early, there is now time to watch a great movie when you get home. So why not choose the biggest hit from the year you were born?
It will make for a perfect evening – though if you came into the world in 1999 you could probably do better. Here are the UK box-office toppers for the past eight decades, based on British Film Institute statistics.
There's something for everybody in the classic films from musicals (Mary Poppins), to sci-fi (Star Wars), crime (The Godfather) and animated features (Toy Story).
The first cab of the rank, Gone With The Wind, remains the highest grossing film of all time, because even though it grossed £15.7million worldwide, in today's money that comes to £2.9billion.
Second to Gone With The Wind is 2019's Avengers:Endgame which not only capped off the lucrative Avengers' films for Marvel but grossed £2.2billion at the global box office.
Despite the Avengers' saving the world from the evil Thanos, Endgame became the first highest grossing movie to not receive a single Oscar nomination.
Usually, making bank at the box office does turn into Academy Award success and three of the films on the list have tied for the most Oscar wins.
Ben-Hur (1960), Titanic (1998) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) have all won 11 Academy Awards.
Some of these big films available to watch on Netflix include: Crocodile Dundee, Ghost, Jurassic Park, Mamma Mia and Babe.
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