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2010s in film

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The decade of the 2010s in film involved many significant developments in the motion picture industry as Disney towered all over its competitors. The studio's titles occupy exactly half of the top 50 highest-grossing movies at the worldwide box office of these ten years with solely one of those entries not reaching a billion dollars and the only three features on the entire list to cross the $2 billion mark, while Universal and Warner Bros. share the distant second place at eight titles each. Furthermore, non-Disney films managed to become the top-grosser of a year merely twice during the decade. This domination culminated in the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.

Trends

Major film studios attempted to replicate the box office dominance of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe (which also had a few releases by Paramount, Universal, and Sony) through establishing their own blockbuster shared universe franchises. Despite not being as lucrative on average, Warner Bros. was able to build multiple such franchises with the likes of the DC Extended Universe, MonsterVerse (co-owned by Legendary), and Wizarding World; while 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise transitioned into being a shared world and Sony's Spider-Man Universe got off to a promising start. However, some other attempts such as Universal's Dark Universe were immediately unsuccessful or ultimately went unproduced. Overall, this movement especially led the superhero film subgenre to attain monumental heights of prosperity.
Disney capitalized on nostalgia by producing several live action or photorealistic remakes/re-adaptations of its famous hand-drawn animated films: Alice in Wonderland (2010), Maleficent (2014), Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), The Lion King (2019), et cetera.
Film series adaptations of popular young adult fiction novels became more prevalent (three of which were distributed or acquired by Lionsgate, and two by 20th Century Fox). After the Harry Potter, Twilight, and Percy Jackson series ended in the early years of the decade, the trend's focus switched from the fantasy genre to dystopian sci-fi with the Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner series. Other efforts of this kind failed to generate any sequels except for DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon series, which took an alternative path by being a non-live action project that was just very loosely based on its source materials and had longer intervals between feature releases (though supported by the likes of short films and TV shows set in the same canon).

Highest-grossing films

The list has more 2019 films in the top 50 than any other year, with nine in total (seven by Disney). It is then followed by 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 with six; 2012 with five; 2013 with four; 2010 and 2011 with three; and 2014 with two (the only year in which Disney did not have a billion dollar grosser and failed to make the list). All but three films (two animated and one biopic) are based on another property. Figures are given in United States dollars.

Rank	Title	Distributor(s)	Worldwide gross	Year	Ref.
1	Avengers: Endgame	Disney	$2,797,800,564	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2019.htm	title=Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Box Office Mojo	website=www.boxofficemojo.com	access-date=2019-10-20}}
2	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$2,068,223,624	2015	title=Star Wars: The Force Awakens	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars7.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
3		Avengers: Infinity War	$2,048,359,754	2018	title=Avengers: Infinity War	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel0518.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2018}}
4	Jurassic World	Universal	$1,671,713,208	2015	title=Jurassic World	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jurassicpark4.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
5	The Lion King	Disney	$1,656,943,394	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lionkingliveaction.htm	title=Lion King	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=2020-03-08}}
6	The Avengers	$1,518,812,988	2012	title=The Avengers	url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers11.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104022056/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers11.htm	archive-date=4 November 2012	url-status=live }}
7	Furious 7	Universal	$1,516,045,911	2015	title=Furious 7	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fast7.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
8	Frozen II	Disney	$1,450,026,933	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt4520988/	title=Frozen II	website=Box Office Mojo	access-date=2021-01-17}}
9	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$1,405,403,694	2015	title=Avengers: Age of Ultron	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers2.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
10	Black Panther	$1,346,913,161	2018	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2017b.htm	title=Black Panther (2018) - Box Office Mojo	website=www.boxofficemojo.com	access-date=2019-05-01}}
11	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Warner Bros.	$1,341,511,219	2011	title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=harrypotter72.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
12	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Disney	$1,332,539,889	2017	title=Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars8.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb	access-date=28 August 2019}}
13	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Universal	$1,309,484,461	2018	title=FallenKingdom	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fallenkingdom.2018.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
14	Frozen	Disney	$1,290,000,000	2013	title=Frozen (2013)	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=frozen2013.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=11 September 2017}}
15	Beauty and the Beast	$1,263,521,126	2017	title=The Fate of the Furious	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beautyandthebeast2017.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
16	Incredibles 2	$1,242,808,192	2018	title=Incredibles 2	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibes2.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
17	The Fate of the Furious	Universal	$1,236,005,118	2017	title=The Fate of the Furious	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fateofthefurious.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
18	Iron Man 3	Disney	$1,214,811,252	2013	title=Iron Man 3	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ironman3.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
19	Minions	Universal	$1,159,398,397	2015	title=Minions	url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=minions.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
20	Captain America: Civil War	Disney	$1,153,304,495	2016	title=Captain America: Civil War	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=civilwar.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=19 February 2013}}
21	Aquaman	Warner Bros.	$1,147,661,807	2018	title=Aquaman	url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aquaman.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
22	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Sony	$1,131,927,996	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=spidermanhomecoming2.htm	title=Spider-Man Far from Home	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=2019-11-30}}
23	Captain Marvel	Disney	$1,128,274,794	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2018a.htm	title=Captain Marvel (2019) - Box Office Mojo	website=www.boxofficemojo.com	access-date=2019-07-08}}
24	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Paramount	$1,123,794,079	2011	title=Transformers: Dark of the Moon	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers3.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
25	Skyfall	Sony / MGM	$1,108,561,013	2012	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=skyfall.htm	title=Skyfall	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
26	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Paramount	$1,104,054,072	2014	title=Transformers: Age of Extinction	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers4.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
27	The Dark Knight Rises	Warner Bros.	$1,084,939,099	2012	title=The Dark Knight Rises	url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thedarkknightrises.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
28	Toy Story 4	Disney	$1,073,394,593	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pixar2017.htm	title=Toy Story 4	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=2019-12-07}}
29	Joker	Warner Bros.	$1,072,651,773	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl252151297/	title=Joker	website=Box Office Mojo	access-date=19 December 2019}}
30	Toy Story 3	Disney	$1,066,969,703	2010	title=Toy Story 3	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=toystory3.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
31	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	$1,065,837,407	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2527338/	title=Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker	website=Box Office Mojo}}
32	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	$1,056,057,273	2016	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rogueone.htm	title=Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=14 December 2012}}
33	Aladdin	$1,050,693,953	2019	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=disneyfairytale22019.htm	title=Aladdin	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=2019-10-29}}
34	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	$1,045,713,802	2011	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=piratesofthecaribbean4.htm	title=Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
35	Despicable Me 3	Universal	$1,034,799,409	2017	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dispecableme3.htm	title=Dispecable Me 3	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=26 March 2016}}
36	Finding Dory	Disney	$1,028,570,889	2016	title=Finding Dory	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingdory.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=11 September 2017}}
37	Alice in Wonderland	$1,025,467,110	2010	title=Alice In Wonderland	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=aliceinwonderland.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=20 January 2014}}
38	Zootopia	$1,023,784,195	2016	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=zootopia.htm	title=Zootopia	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
39	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Warner Bros.	$1,021,103,568	2012	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thehobbit1.htm	title=The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
40	Despicable Me 2	Universal	$970,761,885	2013	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=despicableme2.htm	title=Despicable Me 2	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
41	The Jungle Book	Disney	$966,550,600	2016	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thejunglebook.htm	title=The Jungle Book	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
42	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Sony	$962,126,927	2017	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jumanji2.htm	title=Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=21 April 2016}}
43	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Warner Bros.	$960,283,305	2010	title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=deathlyhallowspart1.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=8 February 2013}}
44	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	$958,366,855	2013	title=The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thehobbit2.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
45	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	$956,019,788	2014	title=The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thehobbit3.htm	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=16 September 2016}}
46	Bohemian Rhapsody	20th Century	$903,655,259	2018	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bohemianrhapsody.htm	title=Bohemian Rhapsody	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
47	Spectre	Sony / MGM	$880,674,609	2015	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bond24.htm	title=Spectre	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
48	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Sony	$880,166,924	2017	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=continentaldrift.htm	title=Spider-Man: Homecoming	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=11 September 2017}}
49	Ice Age: Continental Drift	20th Century	$877,244,782	2012	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=continentaldrift.htm	title=Ice Age: Continental Drift	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}
50	The Secret Life of Pets	Universal	$875,457,937	2016	url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thesecretlifeofpets.htm	title=The Secret Life of Pets	website=Box Office Mojo	publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.	access-date=12 June 2017}}

Highest-grossing film per year

Disney releases were the annual top-grossers for the entire latter half of the decade.

Year	Title	Studio(s)	Worldwide Gross	Ref.
2010	Toy Story 3		Disney	$1,066,969,703
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Warner Bros.	$1,342,511,219
2012	The Avengers	Disney	$1,518,812,988
2013	Frozen	$1,280,802,282
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Paramount	$1,104,054,072
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Disney	$2,068,223,624
2016	Captain America: Civil War	$1,153,304,495
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	$1,332,539,889
2018	Avengers: Infinity War	$2,048,359,754
2019	Avengers: Endgame	$2,797,800,564	url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm	title=Avengers: Endgame (2019)	website=Box Office Mojo	access-date=2020-01-18	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100118083905/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm	archive-date= 18 January 2010	url-status= live}}

Most acclaimed films

On Rotten Tomatoes, the following five films of the 2010s received 100% critics' ratings.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Summer 1993 (2017)
Leave No Trace (2018)
Minding the Gap (2018)
Honeyland (2019)

Metacritic listed the following as the top ten highest rated films (at the time of their release) of the 2010s.

- Boyhood*
- Moonlight*
- Roma*
- Manchester by the Sea*
- 12 Years a Slave*
- Gravity*
- Parasite*
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire*
- Carol*
- The Social Network*

Metacritic also listed the following films as most mentioned on critic's lists of the best films of the 2010s.

- Mad Max: Fury Road*
- Moonlight*
- The Social Network*
- Get Out*
- Under the Skin*
- The Tree of Life*
(Tie)* Inception* and Inside Llewyn Davis
- Boyhood*
- The Master*

Den of Geek listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.

Parasite
Inception
Mad Max: Fury Road
Get Out
Her
Ex Machina
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Hereditary
The Social Network
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Rolling Stone magazine listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.

Moonlight
The Social Network
Holy Motors
Boyhood
Get Out
Toni Erdmann
The Master
Roma
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol

Indiewire listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.

Moonlight
Under the Skin
Certified Copy
The Act of Killing
Inside Llewyn Davis
Holy Motors
Carol
The Master
Mad Max: Fury Road
Lady Bird

In 2016, BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century poll of film critics listed the following as the top ten best films of the 2010s so far.

Boyhood
The Tree of Life
A Separation
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Act of Killing
Holy Motors
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Master
The Social Network

In 2017, The New York Times list of "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far" selected the following as the best films of the 2010s so far.

A Touch of Sin
Inside Out
Boyhood
Inside Llewyn Davis
Timbuktu
In Jackson Heights
White Material
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moonlight

Awards

The following films received the most acclaim at the Academy Awards during the 2010s.

Year	Ceremony	Most nominations	Most awards
83rd	The King's Speech (12)	Inception and The King's Speech (4)	The King's Speech
84th	The Artist (11)	The Artist and Hugo (5)	The Artist
85th	Lincoln (12)	Life of Pi (4)	Argo
86th	American Hustle and Gravity (10)	Gravity (7)	12 Years a Slave
87th	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (9)	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (4)	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
88th	The Revenant (12)	Mad Max: Fury Road (6)	Spotlight
89th	La La Land (14)	La La Land (6)	Moonlight
90th	The Shape of Water (13)	The Shape of Water (4)	The Shape of Water
91st	The Favourite and Roma (10)	Bohemian Rhapsody (4)	Green Book
92nd	Joker (11)	Parasite (4)	Parasite

List of films

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