{"id":24825,"date":"2019-07-24T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24825"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:13:12","slug":"what-is-the-most-successful-film-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24825","title":{"rendered":"What is the most successful film of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are so many ways to judge this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually, because movies are essentially a business, the key criterion is money &#8211; but even here we have a choice between tickets sales in cash to tickets sales adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, it was announced that in cash terms <em>&#8220;Avengers: Endgame<\/em>&#8221; has just overtaken <em>&#8220;Avatar&#8221;<\/em>. You can see more on this story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/jul\/21\/avengers-endgame-tops-avatar-to-be-highest-grossing-film\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, if you adjust for inflation, then the top money-making film of all time is <em>&#8220;Gone With The Wind<\/em>&#8221; from 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another valid measure is number of ticket sales. On that basis, again the top movie is <em>&#8220;Gone With The Wind&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still another measure is the number of Academy Awards won and, on that criterion, three movies share the record for the&nbsp;most Oscar<strong>s<\/strong>.  <em>&#8220;Ben-Hur&#8221; <\/em>(1959), <em>&#8220;Titanic&#8221;<\/em> (1997) and <em>&#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&#8221;<\/em> (2003) each nabbed 11&nbsp;Academy Awards in the years in which they were nominated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I think the best film ever made was <em>&#8220;Lawrence Of Arabia&#8221; &nbsp;<\/em>(1963)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ways to judge this. Usually, because movies are essentially a business, the key criterion is money &#8211; but even here we have a choice between tickets sales in cash to tickets sales adjusted for inflation. This week, it was announced that in cash terms &#8220;Avengers: Endgame&#8221; has just overtaken &#8220;Avatar&#8221;. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24842,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions\/24842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}