which film was the biggest box office hit of the 1960s
The Sound of Music
title: Cinema of the United States text: based in and around the 30 Mile Zone in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of a film grammar. Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. The major film studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful and most ticket selling movies in the world, such as "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "The Godfather" (1972), "Jaws" (1975), "Star Wars" (1977), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), "Jurassic Park" (1993), title: The Sound of Music (film) text: film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, "The Sound of Music" had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing "Gone with the Wind"—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,000,000. "The Sound of Music" received five Academy title: 1970s in film text: MGM's own back lots. More of the successful films were those based in the harsh truths of war, rather than the excesses of the 1960s. Films like the Francis Ford Coppola-scripted "Patton", starring George C. Scott as the World War II general, and Robert Altman's "MASH", about a Korean War field hospital, were major box-office draws in 1970. Honest, old-fashioned films like "Summer of '42", and the Erich Segal adaptation, "Love Story", were commercial and critical hits. (Love Story and "Summer" remain, , two of the most successful films in Hollywood history. "Summer", costing $1,000,000 USD, brought in $25,000,000 at title: The Walt Disney Company text: process to transfer the drawings to animation cels. Disney's live-action releases were spread across a number of genres, including historical fiction ("Johnny Tremain", 1957), adaptations of children's books ("Pollyanna", 1960) and modern-day comedies ("The Shaggy Dog", 1959). Disney's most successful film of the 1960s was a live action/animated musical adaptation of "Mary Poppins", which was one of the all-time highest-grossing movies and received five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews and Best Song for Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman for "Chim Chim Cher-ee". The theme park design and architectural group became so integral to the Disney title: 1970s text: Zeppelin was the most successful musical act of the 1970s, having sold more than 300 million records since 1969. Oscar winners of the decade were "Patton" (1970), "The French Connection" (1971), "The Godfather" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), "The Godfather Part II" (1974), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Rocky" (1976), "Annie Hall" (1977), "The Deer Hunter" (1978), and "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). The top ten highest-grossing films of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest grossing): "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Grease", "The Exorcist", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Superman", "The Godfather", "Saturday Night Fever", "Rocky", and "Jaws