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Cinema box office: Australia: Top 100 all time

Top 100 Australian feature films of all time, ranked by total reported gross Australian box office as at March 2010

Next update March 2011

The no. 1 Australian film at the Australian box office is Crocodile Dundee (1986), with earnings of $47,707,045. Crocodile Dundee is also no. 54 on the list of top films from any country, not just Australia; no. 1 on that list is Avatar, which has taken over $100 million at the Australian box office since its release in December 2009 (see Cinema: Top-grossing films: Top all time).

Six new titles entered the top 100 all-time Australian films in 2009: Mao’s Last Dancer (12), Knowing (30), Charlie & Boots (52), Samson and Delilah (60), Bright Star (69) and The Boys Are Back (96).

Rank	Title	Distributor	Release date	Box office ($)¹
1	Crocodile Dundee	Hoyts	1986	$47,707,045
2	Australia	Fox	2008	$37,555,144
3	Babe	UIP/Universal	1995	$36,776,544
4	Happy Feet	Roadshow	2006	$31,786,164
5	Moulin Rouge	Fox	2001	$27,734,406
6	Crocodile Dundee II	Hoyts	1988	$24,916,805
7	Strictly Ballroom	Ronin	1992	$21,760,400
8	The Dish	Roadshow	2000	$17,999,473
9	The Man from Snowy River	Hoyts	1982	$17,228,160
10	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Roadshow	1994	$16,459,245
11	Muriel’s Wedding	Roadshow	1994	$15,765,571
12	Mao’s Last Dancer	Hopscotch/Roadshow	2009	$15,432,937
13	Young Einstein	Warner Bros	1988	$13,383,377
14	Lantana	Palace	2001	$12,286,683
15	Gallipoli	Roadshow	1981	$11,740,000
16	The Wog Boy	Fox	2000	$11,449,799
17	The Piano	Miramax	1993	$11,240,484
18	Mad Max 2	Warner Bros	1981	$10,847,491
19	Green Card (Australia/France)	Roadshow	1991	$10,585,960
20	The Castle	Roadshow	1997	$10,326,428
21	Shine	Ronin	1996	$10,167,416
22	Phar Lap	Hoyts	1983	$9,258,884
23	Crackerjack	Roadshow	2002	$8,618,107
24	The Man Who Sued God	BVI	2001	$8,546,867
25	Ned Kelly (Australia/UK)	UIP/Universal	2003	$8,365,984
26	Looking for Alibrandi	Roadshow	2000	$8,280,335
27	Kenny	Madman	2006	$7,778,177
28	Babe: Pig in the City	UIP/Universal	1998	$7,771,751
29	Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (Australia/US)	UIP/Universal	2001	$7,759,103
30	Knowing (Australia/US)	Icon	2009	$7,588,162
31	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Becker/Ocean	2002	$7,561,689
32	The Man from Snowy River II	Hoyts	1988	$7,415,000
33	Lightning Jack	Roadshow	1994	$6,439,819
34	Wolf Creek	Roadshow	2005	$6,080,571
35	Chopper	Palace	2000	$5,912,119
36	Two Hands	REP	1999	$5,478,485
37	Reckless Kelly	Roadshow	1993	$5,444,534
38	Mad Max	Roadshow	1979	$5,355,490
39	Jindabyne	Roadshow	2006	$5,302,912
40	The Craic	Roadshow	1999	$5,265,935
41	Picnic at Hanging Rock²	BEF	1975	$5,120,000
42	Dirty Deeds	Hoyts	2002	$5,083,187
43	Strange Bedfellows	Becker	2004	$4,816,495
44	Breaker Morant	Roadshow	1980	$4,735,000
45	Alvin Purple	Roadshow	1973	$4,720,000
46	Japanese Story	Palace	2003	$4,520,000
47	Antarctica	IMAX	1996	$4,486,794
48	Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome	Warner Bros	1985	$4,272,802
49	Charlotte Gray (Australia/UK)	UIP/Universal	2002	$4,188,497
50	Puberty Blues	Roadshow	1981	$3,918,000
51	The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course	Fox/MGM	2002	$3,892,095
52	Charlie & Boots	Paramount	2009	$3,857,743
53	Little Fish	Icon	2005	$3,829,869
54	Fat Pizza	Roadshow	2003	$3,651,320
55	Ten Canoes	Palace	2006	$3,511,649
56	Africa’s Elephant Kingdom	IMAX	1998	$3,491,995
57	Malcolm	Hoyts	1986	$3,483,139
58	The Delinquents	Greater Union	1989	$3,370,650
59	The Sum of Us	UIP	1994	$3,327,456
60	Samson and Delilah	Paramount	2009	$3,188,931
61	Romper Stomper	Roadshow	1992	$3,165,034
62	Kokoda	Palace	2006	$3,138,501
63	Boytown	Roadshow	2006	$3,135,972
64	We of the Never Never	Hoyts	1982	$3,112,000
65	My Brilliant Career	Greater Union	1979	$3,052,000
66	Evil Angels	Warner Bros	1988	$3,006,964
67	Paradise Road	Roadshow	1997	$2,970,653
68	Look Both Ways	Dendy/Footprint	2005	$2,969,094
69	Bright Star (Australia/UK)	Hopscotch/Roadshow	2009	$2,965,879
70	The Hard Word	Roadshow	2002	$2,957,456
71	Cosi	Roadshow	1996	$2,896,980
72	Caddie	Roadshow	1976	$2,847,000
73	Sirens (Australia/UK)	Buena Vista	1994	$2,780,639
74	Death in Brunswick	Roadshow	1991	$2,725,169
75	Bootmen	Fox	2000	$2,720,302
76	Me Myself I	BVI	2000	$2,698,330
77	The Wiggles Movie	Fox	1997	$2,678,686
78	The Heartbreak Kid	Roadshow	1993	$2,658,819
79	Storm Boy	Roadshow	1976	$2,645,000
80	Dating the Enemy	UIP/Total	1996	$2,620,325
81	Romulus, My Father	Dendy/Footprint	2007	$2,589,674
82	The Bank	Footprint	2001	$2,515,917
83	Hostage	Roadshow	1983	$2,455,000
84	Dead Calm	Warner Bros	1989	$2,444,407
85	Careful, He Might Hear You	Hoyts	1983	$2,431,126
86	They're a Weird Mob	Greater Union	1966	$2,417,000
87	The Year of Living Dangerously	UIP/MGM	1982	$2,393,000
88	Oyster Farmer (Australia/UK)	Becker/Sherman	2005	$2,383,051
89	The Big Steal	Hoyts	1990	$2,351,628
90	Bad Eggs	Roadshow	2003	$2,317,820
91	Gettin’ Square	Hoyts	2003	$2,292,587
92	The Proposition (Australia/UK)	Sony	2005	$2,271,100
93	The Black Balloon	Icon	2008	$2,265,689
94	Proof	Roadshow	1991	$2,163,958
95	Somersault	Hopscotch	2004	$2,156,574
96	The Boys are Back (Australia/UK)	Hopscotch	2009	$2,117,064
97	Hating Alison Ashley	Hoyts	2005	$2,085,751
98	Napoleon	Columbia	1996	$2,051,855
99	Black Robe (Australia/Canada)	Hoyts	1992	$2,036,056
100	Far East	Roadshow	1982	$1,972,000

Source: Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission. Compiled by Screen Australia.

Notes:
Includes Australian productions and productions with overseas partners where creative control is shared (i.e. with a mix of Australians in key creative positions).
1. Earnings are in current dollars (i.e. not adjusted for inflation). Cumulative box office, as reported on 7 March 2010 in the MPDAA master report. These figures are updated on an ongoing basis therefore there may be discrepancies with previously published data. Estimates have been used for films released before 1988 where gross box office is unknown.
2. Including re-release through Ronin.

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