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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[edit]
- 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 media 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, Conjuring 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), 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[edit]
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.
Highest-grossing film per year[edit]
Disney releases were the annual top-grossers for the entire latter half of the decade.
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Worldwide Gross | Ref. |
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| 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 |
Most acclaimed films[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the following five films of the 2010s received 100% critics' ratings.[52]
- 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.[53]
- 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.[54]
- 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
According to They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, a site which numerically calculates reception among critics, the most acclaimed films of the 2010s are:[55]
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- The Tree of Life
- Moonlight
- Parasite
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- A Separation
- Melancholia
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Get Out
- The Turin Horse
- Holy Motors
- Under the Skin
- Zama
- The Act of Killing
- Phantom Thread
- Boyhood
- Toni Erdmann
- Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
- Twin Peaks: The Return
- The Master
Den of Geek listed the following as the top ten best movies of the decade.[56]
- 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.[57]
- Moonlight
- The Social Network
- Holy Motors
- Ted
- 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.[58]
- 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.[59]
- A Touch of Sin
- Inside Out
- Boyhood
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Timbuktu
- In Jackson Heights
- White Material
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Moonlight
List of films[edit]
See also[edit]
Film portal- Film, History of film, Lists of films
- List of animated feature films of the 2010s
- Popular culture: 2010s in music
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