opens with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film and the 6th-best of all time. August 8 – actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorce.June 22 – The Fast and the Furious is released, launching one of the highest-grossing franchises in film history.May 18 – Shrek was released to critical acclaim and went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following year beating out Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Monsters, Inc.The highest-grossing non-English film was Studio Ghibli's anime Spirited Away, which was the 15th highest-grossing film of the year. It was also the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter film franchise before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 surpassed it in 2011.Ģ001 was the first time that two films released in the same year grossed more than $800 million at the box office, with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring surpassing the milestone. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone grossed $974 million, and became the second highest-grossing film of all time. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The top 10 films released in 2001 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2001 See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2001
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