List of 2014 box office number-one films in Australia

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the box office in Australia during 2014. All amounts are in Australian dollars. The list below contains 53 weeks due to the first film gross tracking week of the year ending on January 1, and the last week ending on December 31.

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11 January 2014 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $19,597,911 Frozen (#2), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (#4), Philomena (#5), The Railway Man (#7), August: Osage County (#11)
28 January 2014$8,907,305 Walking with Dinosaurs (#5)
315 January 2014 Frozen $5,546,026 The Book Thief (#3), Saving Mr. Banks (#4), Free Birds (#6), Veeram (#16), Lan Kwai Fong 3 (#19)
422 January 2014$4,440,897 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (#2), 47 Ronin (#6), Her (#16), Inside Llewyn Davis (#18)
529 January 2014 The Wolf of Wall Street $7,996,599 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (#4), Jai Ho (#17)
65 February 2014$4,969,855 12 Years a Slave (#2), Grudge Match (#12), The Monkey King (#16)
712 February 2014$2,946,895 RoboCop (#2), Last Vegas (#3), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (#6), Labor Day (#9)
819 February 2014$2,506,086 Endless Love (#4), Are We Officially Dating? (#5), Winter's Tale (#7), Dallas Buyers Club (#9), Gunday (#18)
926 February 2014 Wolf Creek 2 $2,203,477 Lone Survivor (#2), Le Week-End (#11), Nebraska (#15), National Theatre Live: Coriolanus (#19)
105 March 2014 Non-Stop $2,409,608 3 Days to Kill (#7), Shaadi Ke Side Effects (#14), The Wind Rises (#18)
1112 March 2014 300: Rise of an Empire $4,342,386 Vampire Academy (#3), Tracks (#5), National Theatre Live: War Horse (#16), Starting Over Again (#17)
1219 March 2014 The Monuments Men $3,142,720 Need for Speed (#3), The Armstrong Lie (#18), Generation Iron (#20)
1326 March 2014$2,333,539 Ride Along (#4), Pompeii (#5), Cuban Fury (#7), I, Frankenstein (#13), Wadjda (#14), Met Opera: Prince Igor (#16)
142 April 2014 Noah $5,948,958 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (#2), The Raid 2: Berandal (#17), Recep İvedik 4 (#18), Nymphomaniac (#20)
159 April 2014 The Lego Movie $8,796,370 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (#2), Main Tera Hero (#19)
1616 April 2014$9,394,397 Divergent (#3), The Grand Budapest Hotel (#5), Muppets Most Wanted (#7), Disco Singh (#10), Met Opera: Werther (#11)
1723 April 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $8,008,928 The Other Woman (#2), 2 States (#10), The Invisible Woman (#11), That Demon Within (#13), Chinese Puzzle (#14), Only Lovers Left Alive (#15), Like Father, Like Son (#16), The Finishers (#19)
1830 April 2014 The Other Woman $5,544,957 Transcendence (#5), 3D Naked Ambition (#12), Jatt James Bond (#13)
197 May 2014$3,082,573 Fading Gigolo (#10), Met Opera: La bohème (#16), Iceman (#19)
2014 May 2014 Bad Neighbours $6,165,465 Chef (#4), Belle (#6), Healing (#12), A Castle in Italy (#17), Aberdeen (#19)
2121 May 2014 Godzilla $8,428,163 The Broken Circle Breakdown (#17), Child's Pose (#20)
2228 May 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past $10,474,788 Sunshine on Leith (#9), Son of God (#11), The Babadook (#17)
234 June 2014$5,643,085 Maleficent (#2), A Million Ways to Die in the West (#3), The Trip to Italy (#6), Overheard 3 (#13), Met Opera: Così fan tutte (#14), Moms' Night Out (#17), Under the Skin (#19)
2411 June 2014 The Fault in Our Stars $5,431,152 Edge of Tomorrow (#2), Grace of Monaco (#7), Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (#12)
2518 June 2014$3,037,129 Blended (#5), The Rover (#12), Met Opera: La Cenerentola (#16), Maybe This Time (#18)
2625 June 2014 22 Jump Street $8,950,191 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (#2), The Two Faces of January (#10), National Theatre Live: King Lear (#16), Humshakals (#18), Frank (#19)
272 July 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction $12,315,717 Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (#8), Punjab 1984 (#13), Yves Saint Laurent (#14), Ek Villain (#16)
289 July 2014$7,105,383 Rio 2 (#3), Jersey Boys (#5), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (#8), Calvary (#11), The Breakup Guru (#16), Belle et Sébastien (#20)
2916 July 2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $8,198,073 The Lunchbox (#12), Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (#15), National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business (#20)
3023 July 2014$4,522,625 Sex Tape (#2), Charlie's Country (#12), Words and Pictures (#15), Velaiyilla Pattathari (#20)
3130 July 2014 Hercules $4,516,165 Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (#2), Deliver Us from Evil (#5), André Rieu 2014 Maastricht Concert (#6), Kick (#11), Still Life (#15), Snowpiercer (#20)
326 August 2014 Lucy $6,141,579 A Most Wanted Man (#8), These Final Hours (#10), Monty Python Live (Mostly) (#14)
3313 August 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy $8,543,366 And So It Goes (#5), Begin Again (#12)
3420 August 2014$5,353,563 The Hundred-Foot Journey (#2), The Expendables 3 (#3), Singham Returns (#12), Anjaan (#16), Postman Pat: The Movie (#17), God's Not Dead (#19)
3527 August 2014 The Inbetweeners 2 $4,023,690 Doctor Who : "Deep Breath" (#6), Freedom (#9), The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (#13), Deepsea Challenge 3D (#17), 20,000 Days on Earth (#18)
363 September 2014Guardians of the Galaxy$2,364,905 If I Stay (#4), Magic in the Moonlight (#5), Predestination (#8), Felony (#9), Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (#11), Double Di Trouble (#12), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (#19)
3710 September 2014 Into the Storm $2,622,362 Boyhood (#9), What We Do in the Shadows (#10), But Always (#14), Mary Kom (#16)
3817 September 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $5,484,321 Step Up: All In (#3), The Giver (#4), Finding Fanny (#18)
3924 September 2014 The Maze Runner $5,662,962 The Boxtrolls (#3), Planes: Fire & Rescue (#4), House of Magic (#9), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (#11), Wish I Was Here (#17), Khoobsurat (#19)
401 October 2014$5,033,240 The Equalizer (#3), The Skeleton Twins (#17), The Little Death (#18), The Admiral: Roaring Currents (#19)
418 October 2014 Gone Girl $7,052,002 Dracula Untold (#2), Annabelle (#4), Bang Bang! (#12), Billy Elliot the Musical Live (#14), Breakup Buddies (#15), Haider (#18)
4215 October 2014$5,605,748 The Judge (#3), One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film (#9), The Tale of Studio Ghibli Showcase (#20)
4322 October 2014$4,158,664 A Walk Among the Tombstones (#2), Tammy (#3), Before I Go to Sleep (#8), Son of a Gun (#15), Force Majeure (#16)
4429 October 2014 Fury $3,522,366 This Is Where I Leave You (#3), Happy New Year (#6), Whiplash (#12), National Theatre Live: Skylight (#13), Hector and the Search for Happiness (#17), Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (#18)
455 November 2014$2,609,656 John Wick (#3), The Best of Me (#4), Pride (#5), Kill the Messenger (#14), Maya the Bee Movie (#18), Spandau Ballet: Soul Boys of the Western World (#20)
4612 November 2014 Interstellar $5,782,196 Love, Rosie (#5), Chaar Sahibzaade (#9), The Vatican Museums 3D (#10), Two Days, One Night (#13)
4719 November 2014$5,044,257 Let's Be Cops (#2), My Old Lady (#5), The Drop (#11), Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (#13), Baaz (#18), Kill Dil (#20)
4826 November 2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 $11,888,205Met Opera: Le nozze di Figaro (#12), The Dark Horse (#14), Happy Ending (#17)
493 December 2014$7,522,942 Nightcrawler (#3), Fat Pizza vs. Housos (#8), Serena (#9), Men, Women & Children (#13), Women Who Flirt (#14), A Thousand Times Good Night (#19)
5010 December 2014$4,212,488 Exodus: Gods and Kings (#2), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (#3), Met Opera: Carmen (#13), Action Jackson (#15), Human Capital (#17)
5117 December 2014 Horrible Bosses 2 $2,779,613 Paddington (#3), Fleet of Time (#11), Lingaa (#12), Folies Bergère (#13), National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (#15)
5224 December 2014 Paddington $2,433,540 Annie (#2), PK (#7), Exhibition on Screen: Rembrandt (#16)
5331 December 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $17,646,158 Big Hero 6 (#2), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (#3), The Water Diviner (#4), St. Vincent (#8), Mr. Turner (#13), Love on the Cloud (#20)

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