1. Gone with the Wind – Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies
Best Picture: 1939
Studio: MGM
Adjusted Gross Receipts*: $1,854,769,700
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh). Starting with her idyllic on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).