Hollywood cinema in 21st century
Hollywood movies refers to the cinema of United States of America. The Hollywood cinema industry plays an important role among the world movie making studios. It is the third largest film market in the world. Hollywood movies in the 21st century are sometimes called "New Hollywood". Starting from the 2000s, American movies began to earn more fans and contributed to the box office. Science fiction, fantasy films, and animated movies have been globally impacting the movie industry. Research shows that compared to 20th century, the value of the movies increased around by double. International advertising had a crucial role in making "New Hollywood" bigger, compared to 20th century. Most of the movies` box office numbers are increased by overseas viewers.
Academy Award for Best Picture
is also considered the most prestigious award within American cinema. In the current century, As of 2018 the Academy has given 17 best picture awards to drama movies and 1 to Chicago which is musical and crime film. Among the winners, the highest-grossing movie is with 1.12 billion dollars worldwide.| Film | Year |
| Gladiator | 2000 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2001 |
| Chicago | 2002 |
| | 2003 |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2004 |
| Crash | 2005 |
| The Departed | 2006 |
| No Country For Old Men | 2007 |
| The Hurt Locker | 2009 |
| Argo | 2012 |
| 12 Years Slave | 2013 |
| Birdman | 2014 |
| Spotlight | 2015 |
| Moonlight | 2016 |
| The Shape of Water | 2017 |
Adventure genre
Adventure movies is the number 1 genre for earning the money. "Avatar" still stands in the first place since 2009, with its 2.8 billion US dollars in box office, is the world's highest-grossing film of all time. 72.7% of the numbers come from foreign gross and 27.3% is domestic gross. The rights are owned by "Fox Filmed Entertainment" and it was directed by James Cameron. It cost 237 million dollars to make the movie and it took 10 years to make. The movie won 88 awards and 3 of them were Academy Awards that included Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Visual Effects and Best Achievement in Art Direction.It is "" standing in the second, the same genre. The movie is the highest-grossing movie in the saga, created by George Lucas and directed by J. J. Abrams. The Force Awakens is the 7th episode out of 9 since 1977 and the first of the last trilogy since 2015. The film series is currently owned by "LucasFilm, Ltd." and "The Walt Disney Company". The movie won 62 awards. The cost of making it 253 million dollars. The gross was about 2 billion dollars worldwide: 45.3% was domestic and 53.7% was international.
Talking about Academy Awards in adventure genre, British-American The Lord of the Rings were created by J. R. R. Tolkien. It received 17 Oscars in total: 4 for "", 2 for "" and 11 for "". The whole series` cost was 281 million dollars, and the box office numbers were about 2.9 billion dollars.
J. K. Rowling`s British-American Wizarding World movies are considered the 3rd highest earning series with 8.537 billion dollars, but it never won an Academy Award. Animated feature films has played an important role for the grossing of Hollywood movies, as 7 of them has surpassed 1 billion dollars worldwide. The most successful of all is Frozen by The Walt Disney Company, with 1.272 billion dollars worldwide gross and 2 Academy Awards.
The other genres
movies is the second most famous genre in North America in current century. Marvel Cinematic Universe has an important place in it. Totally 18 movies has been made, starting from Iron Man to Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the box office total is 17.527 billion dollars so far. The highest-grossing movie of this universe in, which is the 3rd movie in the series. The movie has more international gross, 1.368 billion dollars, and the remaining 6.788 comes from domestic viewers. It is expected that the sequel will surpass that success, that will release on May 3, 2019.Comedy is the 4th top grossing genre of current century. In this genre, The Hangover Part II is considered as the highest grossing comedy movie of 21st century. The Production Budget for the movie was 80 million dollars, and the worldwide box office numbers were 5.865 million dollars. The following genre is thriller. Inception by the director Christopher Nolan is the most successful Hollywood movie both in the worldwide box numbers and in number of Academy Awards.
Overall, 36 films have passed 1 billion dollars in the world, and 32 of them have been made in 21st century by cinema of United States. Wizarding World and Middle-earth films are considered as British-American.
| All-time International Rank | Released in | Movie | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office |
| 1 | 2009 | Avatar | $2,776,345,279 | $760,507,625 | $2,015,837,654 |
| 3 | 2015 | ' | $2,053,311,220 | $936,662,225 | $1,116,648,995 |
| 4 | 2018 | ' | $2,008,425,124 | $678,815,482 | $1,329,609,642 |
| 5 | 2015 | Jurassic World | $1,648,893,208 | $652,270,625 | $996,622,583 |
| 6 | 2015 | Furious 7 | $1,518,722,794 | $353,007,020 | $1,165,715,774 |
| 7 | 2012 | The Avengers | $1,517,935,897 | $623,279,547 | $894,656,350 |
| 8 | 2015 | ' | $1,403,013,963 | $459,005,868 | $944,008,095 |
| 9 | 2018 | Black Panther | $1,347,071,259 | $700,059,566 | $647,011,693 |
| 10 | 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II | $1,341,511,219 | $381,011,219 | $960,500,000 |
| 11 | 2017 | ' | $1,316,764,784 | $620,181,382 | $696,583,402 |
| 12 | 2018 | ' | $1,304,866,322 | $416,769,345 | $888,096,977 |
| 13 | 2013 | Frozen | $1,272,469,910 | $400,738,009 | $871,731,901 |
| 14 | 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | $1,259,199,706 | $504,014,165 | $755,185,541 |
| 15 | 2018 | Incredibles 2 | $1,238,502,902 | $608,508,728 | $629,994,174 |
| 16 | 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $1,234,908,020 | $225,764,765 | $1,009,143,255 |
| 17 | 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $1,215,392,272 | $408,992,272 | $806,400,000 |
| 18 | 2015 | Minions | $1,160,336,173 | $336,045,770 | $824,290,403 |
| 19 | 2003 | ' | $1,141,403,341 | $377,845,905 | $763,557,436 |
| 20 | 2016 | ' | $1,140,871,507 | $408,084,349 | $732,787,158 |
| 21 | 2011 | ' | $1,123,790,543 | $352,390,543 | $771,400,000 |
| 23 | 2014 | ' | $1,104,039,076 | $245,439,076 | $858,600,000 |
| 24 | 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $1,084,439,099 | $448,139,099 | $636,300,000 |
| 25 | 2010 | Toy Story 3 | $1,069,666,004 | $415,004,880 | $654,661,124 |
| 26 | 2006 | ' | $1,066,215,812 | $423,315,812 | $642,900,000 |
| 27 | 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $1,049,175,577 | $532,177,324 | $516,998,253 |
| 28 | 2011 | ' | $1,045,663,875 | $241,063,875 | $804,600,000 |
| 30 | 2017 | Despicable Me 3 | $1,034,748,190 | $264,624,300 | $770,123,890 |
| 32 | 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $1,025,491,110 | $334,191,110 | $691,300,000 |
| 33 | 2016 | Finding Dory | $1,021,350,883 | $486,295,561 | $535,055,322 |
| 34 | 2016 | Zootopia | $1,019,704,348 | $341,268,248 | $678,436,100 |
| 35 | 2012 | ' | $1,017,003,568 | $303,003,568 | $714,000,000 |
| 36 | 2008 | The Dark Knight | $1,001,620,618 | $533,345,358 | $468,275,260 |