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==Top-grossing films== ===North America=== {{see also|List of 1966 box office number-one films in the United States}} The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: <!-- Note: We only link the studios ONCE--> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1966 |- ! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1 | ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]'' | [[United Artists]] | $15,600,000<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 358β359]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 2 | ''[[The Bible: In the Beginning...]]'' | [[20th Century Fox]] | $15,000,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 3 | ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' | [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros]]. | $14,500,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 4 | ''[[The Sand Pebbles (film)|The Sand Pebbles]]'' | 20th Century Fox | $13,500,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 5 | ''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'' | [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] | $12,800,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 6 | ''[[The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming]]'' | United Artists | $9,800,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 7 | ''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] | $9,300,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 8 | ''[[The Professionals (1966 film)|The Professionals]]'' | Columbia | $8,800,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 9 | ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]'' | [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] | $8,500,000<ref name="1966DomesticRevenue">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080615024122/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1966.shtml Top 20 Films of 1966 by Domestic Revenue]</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 10 | ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' | Columbia | $7,600,000<ref name="1966DomesticRevenue"/> |- |} ===Outside North America=== The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America. {| class="wikitable" ! Country || Title || Studio || Gross |- | [[Cinema of India|India]] | ''[[Phool Aur Patthar]]'' | [[O. P. Ralhan|Ralhan Productions]] | '''$11,790,000'''{{#tag:ref|[[Indian rupee|{{INR}}]]7.5 [[crore]];<ref name="boi66">{{Cite web |url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=172&catName=MTk2Ng== |title=Box Office 1966 |access-date=2013-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014102652/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=172&catName=MTk2Ng== |archive-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 6.3591 [[Indian rupee]]s per US dollar in 1966<ref name="sauder">{{Cite web |url=http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-07-10 |archive-date=2015-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512095429/http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf#page=3 |url-status=live }}</ref> |group=n}} |- | [[Cinema of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]] | ''[[War and Peace (film series)|War and Peace]]'' | [[Mosfilm]] | '''$64,000,000'''{{#tag:ref|58 million [[Soviet rouble|Rbls]],<ref name = "K">{{cite book|author=Kudryavtsev, Sergei|title=3500 avtorskuiu knigu kinoretsenzii|year=2008|publisher=Pechatny Dvor|isbn=978-5990131835|page=185}}</ref> 0.9 Rbl per US dollar from 1961 to 1971<ref name="russia">{{Cite web |url=http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls |title=Archive of Bank of Russia |access-date=2017-07-10 |archive-date=2017-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717030948/http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls |url-status=live }}</ref>|group=n}} |}
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