8. Around the World in 80 Days – Top 10 Highest Grossing Oscar Winning Movies
Best Picture: 1956
Studio: United Artists
Adjusted Gross Receipts*: $593,169,200
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman’s club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor.
With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery.