Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies


9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies

Best Picture: 2003
Studio: New Line
Adjusted Gross Receipts*: $565,852,400
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen

The culmination of nearly 10 years’ work and conclusion to Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” presents the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth.

Hobbits Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the `one ring’, while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron’s evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.