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The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia .
The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boom Town | MGM | $3,664,000 [1] |
| 2 | The Great Dictator | United Artists | $3,500,000 [2] |
| 3 | Rebecca | United Artists/Selznick International | $3,000,000 [3] |
| 4 | North West Mounted Police | Paramount | $2,750,000 [4] |
| 5 | Strike Up the Band | MGM | $2,265,000 [1] |
| 6 | Northwest Passage | $2,169,000 [1] | |
| 7 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | $1,945,000 [1] | |
| 8 | The Fighting 69th | Warner Bros. | $1,822,000 [5] |
| 9 | Santa Fe Trail | $1,748,000 [5] | |
| 10 | Kitty Foyle | RKO | $1,710,000 [6] [7] |
United States unless stated
United States unless stated
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.
The year of 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Citizen Kane.
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards —Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are considered classics.
The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.
The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood. This period was punctuated by performances from Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry.
The following is an overview of 1934 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Although his most successful films of the war years were Selznick pictures – Rebecca (with a domestic box office gross of $3 million) and Spellbound ($4.9 million), with Rebecca also winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 – Hitchcock seems on the whole to have preferred his other assignments where he evidently enjoyed greater creative freedom.