Box office results by individual years can fluctuate significantly, typically due to the effect of specific release patterns – such as the tradition of Boxing Day releases that splits earnings over calendar years – and the fact that local box office is often driven by one or two break-out, big-budget Australian hits every couple of years, e.g, Lion (2017), Peter Rabbit (2018), Peter Rabbit 2 (2021), The Dry (2021), Elvis (2022).

Overall trends in the domestic box office share for Australian films are best seen by looking at three-year rolling averages.