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Highest-grossing Best Picture Winners Since 1980 Quiz

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You get a few guesses per floor. Land it on your first guess for 10 points; a near miss still scores. After the best Picture round, four more lists from the same topic keep the ride going.

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  1. Titanic $2,264,812,968
    Its ship set was built at nearly full scale in a huge seaside tank in Rosarito, Mexico.
  2. The Return of the King $1,138,063,541
    It won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for, a clean sweep.
  3. Oppenheimer $975,811,333
    Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity nuclear test with practical effects instead of CGI.
  4. Forrest Gump $678,226,465
    Tom Hanks's younger brother Jim doubled for him in many of the running scenes.
  5. Gladiator $465,518,644
    Oliver Reed died mid-shoot, so his last scenes were finished with a digital double.
  6. Dances with Wolves $424,208,848
    Much of its dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles.
  7. The King's Speech $414,245,125
    Writer David Seidler, a childhood stammerer, waited until the Queen Mother died to make it.
  8. Slumdog Millionaire $378,411,362
    Several of its child actors were real kids from Mumbai's slums, cast by Danny Boyle.
  9. American Beauty $356,296,601
    It was Sam Mendes's first feature film; before that he directed theatre.
  10. Rain Man $354,825,435
    Dustin Hoffman's character was partly inspired by Kim Peek, a man with an astonishing memory.
  11. Schindler's List $322,161,245
    Steven Spielberg declined a salary for directing it.
  12. Green Book $321,752,656
    Its title comes from a guide that helped Black motorists find safe businesses under Jim Crow.
  13. A Beautiful Mind $316,791,257
    It's about John Nash, the mathematician who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics.
  14. Chicago $306,777,683
    It was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1969.
  15. The Departed $292,095,981
    It's a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs.
  16. Shakespeare in Love $289,317,794
    Judi Dench won an Oscar for about eight minutes on screen as Queen Elizabeth I.
  17. The Silence of the Lambs $273,138,318
    Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor with only about 16 minutes of screen time.
  18. Parasite $263,492,582
    It was the first film not in English to win Best Picture.
  19. Argo $232,325,503
    It dramatizes a CIA plot to sneak six Americans out of Iran posing as a film crew.
  20. The English Patient $231,976,425
    It's adapted from Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel.
  21. Out of Africa $227,514,205
    Meryl Streep plays Danish author Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen.
  22. Million Dollar Baby $216,763,646
    Clint Eastwood directed it, starred in it and composed its score.
  23. One Battle After Another $213,218,884
    It's loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland.
  24. Braveheart $213,216,216
    Irish army reservists served as extras for its big battle scenes, filmed in Ireland.
  25. The Shape of Water $195,243,464
    Doug Jones, Guillermo del Toro's go-to creature actor, played the amphibian man.

Source: Box Office Mojo (worldwide lifetime gross, all releases); winners list via Wikidata · as of 2026-10

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