The table below lists the top-grossing Western movie released in each calendar year (based on worldwide box office). Click on the year number for a list of all the Western films released that year. The "Annual Stats" links will take you to a summary of the domestic film business for Western movies for the year in question (this part of our archive starts in 1995). Click on the movie name to see information on the individual film.
| Year | Annual Stats | Total Movies | Average Production Budget | Combined Worldwide Box Office | No. 1 Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBD | 15 | ||||
| 2025 | 1 | $50,000,000 | |||
| 2024 | Annual Stats | 17 | $50,000,000 | $33,284,431 | Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 |
| 2023 | Annual Stats | 19 | $200,000,000 | $157,969,205 | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2022 | Annual Stats | 12 | $77,795 | Dead for a Dollar | |
| 2021 | Annual Stats | 21 | $1,519,724 | The Drover’s Wife | |
| 2020 | Annual Stats | 12 | $38,000,000 | $13,070,144 | News of the World |
| 2019 | Annual Stats | 21 | $7,000,000 | $2,403,529 | The Kid |
| 2018 | Annual Stats | 21 | $25,000,000 | $15,618,553 | The Sisters Brothers |
| 2017 | Annual Stats | 14 | $40,000,000 | $152,914,371 | The Dark Tower |
| 2016 | Annual Stats | 12 | $30,500,000 | $207,615,300 | The Magnificent Seven |
| 2015 | Annual Stats | 13 | $15,850,000 | $159,550,594 | The Hateful Eight |
| 2014 | Annual Stats | 10 | $17,750,000 | $97,994,122 | A Million Ways to Die in The West |
| 2013 | Annual Stats | 10 | $225,000,000 | $261,099,435 | The Lone Ranger |
| 2012 | Annual Stats | 6 | $51,000,000 | $449,841,566 | Django Unchained |
| 2011 | Annual Stats | 10 | $69,750,000 | $246,941,907 | Rango |
| 2010 | Annual Stats | 12 | $28,966,667 | $261,249,307 | True Grit |
| 2009 | Annual Stats | 2 | |||
| 2008 | Annual Stats | 3 | $10,015,000 | $28,155,221 | Appaloosa |
| 2007 | Annual Stats | 4 | $34,333,333 | $250,939,505 | No Country for Old Men |
| 2006 | Annual Stats | 5 | $15,000,000 | $20,256,033 | Bandidas |
| 2005 | Annual Stats | 1 | $15,000,000 | $13,454,474 | Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada |
| 2004 | Annual Stats | 5 | $93,333,333 | $208,484,618 | Hidalgo |
| 2003 | Annual Stats | 3 | $47,000,000 | $195,184,260 | Shanghai Knights |
| 2001 | Annual Stats | 3 | $36,500,000 | $14,224,483 | American Outlaws |
| 2000 | Annual Stats | 5 | $37,666,667 | $90,712,094 | Shanghai Noon |
| 1999 | Annual Stats | 2 | $105,000,000 | $221,860,114 | Wild Wild West |
| 1998 | Annual Stats | 2 | |||
| 1996 | Annual Stats | 1 | $1,078,064 | Dead Man | |
| 1995 | Annual Stats | 9 | $19,500,000 | $61,755,141 | Desperado |
| 1994 | 8 | $46,500,000 | $448,378,821 | Maverick | |
| 1993 | 5 | $25,000,000 | $94,606,162 | Tombstone | |
| 1992 | 1 | $14,400,000 | $159,157,447 | Unforgiven | |
| 1991 | 4 | $23,000,000 | $11,339,912 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | |
| 1990 | 4 | $26,333,333 | $733,852,579 | Dances with Wolves | |
| 1988 | 2 | $13,000,000 | $58,413,671 | Young Guns | |
| 1986 | 3 | ||||
| 1985 | 3 | $16,450,000 | $79,457,653 | Pale Rider | |
| 1983 | 3 | $3,152,500 | $13,141,628 | Lone Wolf McQuade | |
| 1982 | 1 | $5,000,000 | $20,659,721 | The Man From Snowy River | |
| 1981 | 3 | $18,000,000 | $13,515,679 | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | |
| 1980 | 3 | $27,000,000 | $65,601,722 | Urban Cowboy | |
| 1979 | 3 | ||||
| 1976 | 6 | $59,800,000 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | ||
| 1975 | 5 | $56,916,500 | The Apple Dumpling Gang | ||
| 1974 | 4 | $45,411,063 | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | ||
| 1973 | 4 | $5,069,392 | $26,700,000 | High Plains Drifter | |
| 1972 | 6 | $67,557,117 | Jeremiah Johnson | ||
| 1971 | 9 | $800,000 | $113,782,684 | Billy Jack | |
| 1970 | 11 | $3,716,946 | $47,609,552 | Little Big Man | |
| 1969 | 11 | $5,666,667 | $153,861,241 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
| 1968 | 12 | $1,627,500 | $21,536,688 | Bandolero! | |
| 1967 | 9 | $666,667 | $26,935,359 | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo | |
| 1966 | 10 | $19,571,015 | The Professionals | ||
| 1965 | 6 | $3,800,000 | $30,617,095 | Shenandoah | |
| 1964 | 3 | $147 | Cheyenne Autumn | ||
| 1963 | 3 | $61,000,000 | How the West Was Won | ||
| 1962 | 5 | $3,200,000 | $8,000,498 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | |
| 1961 | 4 | $794 | One-Eyed Jacks | ||
| 1960 | 4 | $12,000,000 | $7,920,479 | The Alamo | |
| 1959 | 5 | $5,800,124 | Rio Bravo | ||
| 1958 | 7 | $14,400,000 | The Big Country | ||
| 1957 | 6 | ||||
| 1956 | 9 | $30,201,017 | Giant | ||
| 1955 | 5 | ||||
| 1954 | 7 | $18,843,557 | Vera Cruz | ||
| 1953 | 8 | $28,200,000 | Shane | ||
| 1952 | 4 | $730,000 | $8,000,064 | High Noon | |
| 1951 | 4 | $5,500,000 | Across the Wide Missouri | ||
| 1950 | 11 | ||||
| 1949 | 3 | ||||
| 1948 | 12 | $3,000,000 | $9,023,778 | Red River | |
| 1947 | 13 | ||||
| 1946 | 19 | $6,000,000 | $25,610,931 | Duel in the Sun | |
| 1945 | 9 | ||||
| 1944 | 3 | ||||
| 1943 | 3 | ||||
| 1941 | 2 | ||||
| 1940 | 5 | $625,000 | |||
| 1939 | 8 | ||||
| 1938 | 1 | ||||
| 1937 | 1 | ||||
| 1936 | 2 | ||||
| 1935 | 4 | ||||
| 1934 | 9 | ||||
| 1933 | 3 | ||||
| 1931 | 1 | ||||
| 1930 | 1 | ||||
| 1929 | 1 | ||||
| 1928 | 1 | $5,300 | Shooting Stars | ||
| Total | 593 | $30,710,877 | $5,758,183,988 | Django Unchained | |