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==Top-grossing films== ===United States=== {{see also|List of 1954 box office number-one films in the United States}} The top ten 1954 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: <!-- Note: We only link the studios ONCE--> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1954 |- ! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1 | ''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]'' |[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] | $12,000,000<ref name=Finler>{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358#v=twopage 358โ359]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 2 | ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]'' | [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] | $8,700,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 3 |''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' | [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]] | $8,000,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 4 | ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]'' |[[Universal Pictures|Universal]] | $7,600,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 5 | ''[[The Country Girl (1954 film)|The Country Girl]]'' |Paramount | $6,500,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 6 | ''[[The High and the Mighty (film)|The High and the Mighty]]''<br>''[[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' |[[Warner Bros.]] | $6,100,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 7 | ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] | $5,526,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 8 |''[[Rear Window]]'' | Paramount | $5,300,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 9 |''[[Magnificent Obsession (1954 film)|Magnificent Obsession]]'' | Universal | $5,200,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 10 |''[[There's No Business Like Show Business (film)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]'' | [[20th Century Fox]] | $5,103,555<ref name=AllTime>{{cite news|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|date=October 15, 1990|page=M140-M196|first=Lawrence|last=Cohn}}</ref> |} ===International=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! International market || Film || Studio || Revenue || Admissions || Production country |- | [[List of highest-grossing films in France|France]] | ''[[Royal Affairs in Versailles]]'' | [[Cocinor]] | {{n/a}} | 6,986,788<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel France โ 1954 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanfr.php?year=1954 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref> | [[Cinema of France|France]] |- | [[Cinema of Germany|West Germany]] | ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'' | [[Columbia Pictures]] | {{n/a}} | 13,000,000<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Germany โ 1954 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanall.php?year=1954 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref> | [[Cinema of the United States|United States]] |- | [[List of highest-grossing films in India|India]] | ''[[Nagin (1954 film)|Nagin]]'' | [[Filmistan]] | {{US$|{{#expr:29000000/4.7619 round -3}}|long=no}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Box Office 1954 |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=160&catName=MTk1NA== |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102005540/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=160&catName=MTk1NA== |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2010 |website=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=2 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="sauder">{{cite web|title=Pacific Exchange Rate Service|url=http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3|website=[[UBC Sauder School of Business]]|publisher=[[University of British Columbia]]|page=3|access-date=21 November 2017}}</ref> | {{n/a}} | [[Cinema of India|India]] |- | [[Cinema of Italy|Italy]] | ''[[Ulysses (1954 film)|Ulysses]]'' | [[Lux Film]] | {{n/a}} | 13,170,322<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Italie โ 1954 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanitalie.php?year=1954 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref> | [[Cinema of Italy|Italy]] |- | [[List of highest-grossing films in Japan|Japan]] | ''[[:ja:ๅใฎๅใฏ#ๅใฎๅใฏ๏ผ็ฌฌไธ้จ๏ผ|What Is Your Name? Part 3]]'' | [[Shochiku]] | {{JPY|330,150,000}}<ref>{{Cite book |date=May 2012|title=ใญใใๆฌๅ ฑใในใใปใใณ85ๅๅ จๅฒ 1924โ2011|journal=[[Kinema Junpo]]|publisher=Kinema Junposha|isbn=978-4873767550|page=112}}</ref> | {{n/a}} | [[Cinema of Japan|Japan]] |- | [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|Soviet Union]] | ''[[Awaara]]'' | [[R. K. Films]] | $16,970,000{{efn|''Awaara'' in the [[List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales|Soviet Union]]: *Initial run {{ndash}} 29 million [[Soviet rouble|Rbls]]<ref name="soviet211">{{cite book |last=Rajagopalan |first=Sudha |title=Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin |date=2005 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |isbn=9780253220998 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpoLAQAAMAAJ |quote=The purchase of Shree 420 (Mr 420/''Gospodin 420'') followed a letter from a Soveksportfil'm representative in Bombay to officials in Moscow in which the former wrote: We are in a delicate situation with Raj Kapoor. He feels he is not being offered enough for Mr 420 despite the fact that 'The Vagabond' raised 29 million roubles for the Soviet state.}}</ref> ({{US$|7.25 million|long=no}}){{efn|4 [[Soviet rouble|Rbl]]s per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name="russia">{{cite web |title=Archive |url=http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229074625/http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 December 2009 |website=[[Central Bank of Russia]] |access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>}} in 1954 *Re-runs {{ndash}} {{#expr:35/(100/25)}}{{nbsp}}million Rbls{{efn|35{{nbsp}}million re-run admissions up until 1964-1966,<ref name="boi-soviet">{{cite news |title=You Asked It - Padmaavat Is Bigger Than Mughal E Azam? |url=https://www.boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=3743 |work=[[Box Office India]] |date=8 March 2018}}</ref> average Soviet ticket price of 25 [[kopeck]]s in the mid-1960s<ref name="moscow7">[https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/podzim2015/FAV291/um/Roth-Ey-Moscow_Prime_Time.pdf#page=7 ''Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War'', page 48], [[Cornell University Press]], 2011</ref>|group=n}} {{ndash}} {{US$|9.72 million|long=no}}{{efn|0.9 Rbl per US$ from 1961 to 1971<ref name="russia"/>}} }} | 100,000,000<ref name="boi-soviet"/> | [[Cinema of India|India]] |- | [[Cinema of Spain|Spain]] | ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | {{n/a}} | 3,721,532<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilan Annuel Espagne โ 1954 |url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/bilanespagne.php?year=1954 |website=JP's Box-Office |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref> | [[Cinema of the United States|United States]] |- | [[List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] | ''[[Doctor in the House (film)|Doctor in the House]]'' | [[Rank Organisation]] | {{n/a}} | 12,200,000<ref>{{cite web|title=Doctor in the House|date=28 November 2004|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=36|access-date=24 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005851/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/details.php?ranking=36|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> | [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] |}
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