2. The
Sound of Music – Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies
Best Picture: 1965
Studio: Fox
Adjusted Gross Receipts*: $1,307,373,200
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world’s best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.
Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.