For two dozen articles we have used the golden ratio to slice the box office in every direction — by tier, by season, by budget, by decade. It is time for the leaderboard the whole index has been building toward: the twenty films that dominated an American box-office week more completely than any others in twenty years. This is the Golden-Ratio Hall of Fame, ranked by the single most important number we track — the peak share of an entire week a film ever seized.
The pantheon
At the summit sits Avengers: Endgame, whose opening week claimed a barely believable 88% of everything spent at U.S. theaters — the most total single-film domination of the modern era. Behind it stretches a murderer’s row of franchise titans: multiple Avengers and Spider-Man chapters, Avatar, Black Panther, The Batman, the year-defining giants that each, for one week, made the rest of the movie business a rounding error.
| # | Film | Year | Peak week share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | 88.3% |
| 2 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 2022 | 86.1% |
| 3 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | 2021 | 85.6% |
| 4 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | 83.7% |
| 5 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | 2022 | 83.3% |
| 6 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | 81.3% |
| 7 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | 80.4% |
| 8 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day | 2026 | 80.0% |
| 9 | The Batman | 2022 | 79.8% |
| 10 | The Avengers | 2012 | 79.7% |
| 11 | A Minecraft Movie | 2025 | 78.7% |
| 12 | Iron Man 3 | 2013 | 78.3% |
| 13 | Spider-Man 3 | 2007 | 78.1% |
| 14 | Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens | 2015 | 76.2% |
| 15 | Jurassic World | 2015 | 75.2% |
| 16 | Top Gun: Maverick | 2022 | 74.4% |
| 17 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | 74.0% |
| 18 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | 73.7% |
| 19 | Inside Out 2 | 2024 | 73.3% |
| 20 | It | 2017 | 73.3% |
What the list is, and isn’t
Read the pantheon carefully and its biases are its message. This is not a list of the best films, the most profitable films, or even the highest-grossing films — it is a ranking of pure domination, of how completely a movie owned its single biggest week. That is why it skews so heavily toward superhero spectacle and franchise event: those are the films studios can open into deliberately cleared weekends, which is the real recipe for a towering share. A beloved sleeper that earns its money slowly over months will never appear here, no matter how much it ultimately makes. Domination is a measure of the moment, not the marathon.
Batmandir · The Circle Full access to theatres, museums & exhibitions. S2 · ongoing membership, without a Founder’s seat. Explore membership →It is also, unmistakably, a portrait of an era. Nearly every film on this list is recent, and nearly every one is a sequel or a comic-book adaptation. Twenty years ago a leaderboard of the most dominant weeks would have been more varied and less extreme — the market was more shared, and no single film could routinely swallow 80% of it. The Hall of Fame is really a monument to concentration: the same story of a winner-take-all box office that the index has told from every angle, distilled into one ranked column of the films that took the most.
And yet there is genuine achievement in these numbers, not just symptom. To take 80% of a national box office in a week — to become, however briefly, almost the only movie a country is watching — is a feat of scale, timing, and cultural gravity that only a handful of films in history have managed. The golden ratio gave us the ruler; these twenty films are what the top of the ruler looks like. They are the closest the movies have come, in the modern age, to total eclipse.
