100 English films of 2012 ranked by box office. #1: The Avengers ($1.5 billion).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Avengers | Joss Whedon | $220 million | $1.5 billion | 6.91x | |
| 2 | Skyfall | Sam Mendes | $200 million | $1.1 billion | 5.55x | |
| 3 | The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | $250 million | $1.1 billion | 4.34x | |
| 4 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Peter Jackson | $180 million | $1 billion | 5.65x | |
| 5 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | Mike Thurmeier | $95 million | $877 million | 9.23x | |
| 6 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | Bill Condon | SRD 120 million | $868 million | ||
| 7 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Marc Webb | $230 million | $758.7 million | 3.30x | |
| 8 | The Hunger Games | Gary Ross | $78 million | $695.2 million | 8.91x | |
| 9 | Men in Black 3 | Barry Sonnenfeld | $225 million | $654.2 million | 2.91x | |
| 10 | Ted | Seth MacFarlane | $50 million | $549 million | 10.98x | |
| 11 | Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | $165 million | $496.5 million | 3.01x | |
| 12 | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | $100 million | $449.8 million | 4.50x | |
| 13 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | $61 million | $442.8 million | 7.26x | |
| 14 | Prometheus | Ridley Scott | $130 million | $403.4 million | 3.10x | |
| 15 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Rupert Sanders | $170 million | $396.6 million | 2.33x | |
| 16 | Taken 2 | Olivier Megaton | $45 million | $376.1 million | 8.36x | |
| 17 | Hotel Transylvania | Genndy Tartakovsky | $85 million | $358.4 million | 4.22x | |
| 18 | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | Brad Peyton | $79 million | $335.3 million | 4.24x | |
| 19 | The Expendables 2 | Simon West | $100 million | $315 million | 3.15x | |
| 20 | Rise of the Guardians | Peter Ramsey | $145 million | $306.9 million | 2.12x | |
| 21 | Battleship | Peter Berg | $209 million | $303 million | 1.45x | |
| 22 | Wrath of the Titans | Jonathan Liebesman | $150 million | $302 million | 2.01x | |
| 23 | John Carter | Andrew Stanton | $250 million | $284.1 million | 1.14x | |
| 24 | The Bourne Legacy | Tony Gilroy | $125 million | $276.1 million | 2.21x | |
| 25 | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | $65 million | $275.3 million | 4.24x | |
| 26 | Dark Shadows | Tim Burton | $150 million | $245.5 million | 1.64x | |
| 27 | Resident Evil: Retribution | Paul W. S. Anderson | $65 million | $240.2 million | 3.70x | |
| 28 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | $21 million | $236.4 million | 11.26x | |
| 29 | American Reunion | Hayden Schlossberg | $50 million | $235 million | 4.70x | |
| 30 | Argo | Ben Affleck | $44.5 million | $232.3 million | 5.22x | |
| 31 | Jack Reacher | Christopher McQuarrie | $60 million | $218.3 million | 3.64x | |
| 32 | Total Recall | Len Wiseman | $125 million | $211.8 million | 1.69x | |
| 33 | Safe House | Daniel Espinosa | $85 million | $208.1 million | 2.45x | |
| 34 | Lost in Thailand | Xu Zheng | $4.6 million | $208 million | 45.22x | |
| 35 | 21 Jump Street | Christopher Miller | $55 million | $201.6 million | 3.67x | |
| 36 | The Impossible | J. A. Bayona | $45 million | $198.1 million | 4.40x | |
| 37 | The Vow | Michael Sucsy | $30 million | $196.1 million | 6.54x | |
| 38 | The Dictator | Larry Charles | $65 million | $190.2 million | 2.93x | |
| 39 | Mirror Mirror | Tarsem Singh | $85 million | $183 million | 2.15x | |
| 40 | Looper | Rian Johnson | $30 million | $176.5 million | 5.88x | |
| 41 | Flight | Robert Zemeckis | $31 million | $161.8 million | 5.22x | |
| 42 | Underworld: Awakening | Måns Mårlind | $70 million | $160.1 million | 2.29x | |
| 43 | This Means War | McG | $65 million | $156.5 million | 2.41x | |
| 44 | Paranormal Activity 4 | Ariel Schulman | $5 million | $142.8 million | 28.56x | |
| 45 | Step Up Revolution | Scott Speer | $33 million | $140.4 million | 4.25x | |
| 46 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | $40 million | $132.8 million | 3.32x | |
| 47 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Brian Taylor | $57 million | $132.6 million | 2.33x | |
| 48 | Cloud Atlas | Lilly Wachowski | $100 million | $130.5 million | 1.31x | |
| 49 | The Woman in Black | James Watkins | $15 million | $129 million | 8.60x | |
| 50 | Chronicle | Josh Trank | $12 million | $126.6 million | 10.55x | |
| 51 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Peter Lord | $55 million | $123 million | 2.24x | |
| 52 | Parental Guidance | Andy Fickman | $25 million | $119.8 million | 4.79x | |
| 53 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Timur Bekmambetov | $69 million | $116.4 million | 1.69x | |
| 54 | Pitch Perfect | Jason Moore | $17 million | $115.4 million | 6.79x | |
| 55 | Hope Springs | David Frankel | $30 million | $114.3 million | 3.81x | |
| 56 | ParaNorman | Chris Butler | $60 million | $107.1 million | 1.79x | |
| 57 | The Campaign | Jay Roach | $95 million | $104.9 million | 1.10x | |
| 58 | Project X | Nima Nourizadeh | $12 million | $102.7 million | 8.56x | |
| 59 | The Devil Inside | William Brent Bell | $1 million | $101.8 million | 101.80x | |
| 60 | The Lucky One | Scott Hicks | $25 million | $99.4 million | 3.98x | |
| 61 | Contraband | Baltasar Kormákur | $25 million | $96.3 million | 3.85x | |
| 62 | Think like a Man | Tim Story | $12 million | $96.1 million | 8.01x | |
| 63 | This Is 40 | Judd Apatow | $35 million | $88.1 million | 2.52x | |
| 64 | Sinister | Scott Derrickson | $3 million | $87.7 million | 29.23x | |
| 65 | Frankenweenie | Tim Burton | $39 million | $87 million | 2.23x | |
| 66 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Kirk Jones | $30 million | $84.4 million | 2.81x | |
| 67 | Savages | Oliver Stone | $45 million | $83 million | 1.84x | |
| 68 | The Possession | Ole Bornedal | $14 million | $82.9 million | 5.92x | |
| 69 | Act of Valor | Scott Waugh | $12 million | $81.3 million | 6.78x | |
| 70 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | David Bowers | $22 million | $77.2 million | 3.51x | |
| 71 | To Rome with Love | Woody Allen | €17 million | $73.2 million | ||
| 72 | Here Comes the Boom | Frank Coraci | $42 million | $73.1 million | 1.74x | |
| 73 | The Cabin in the Woods | Drew Goddard | $30 million | $69.9 million | 2.33x | |
| 74 | Anna Karenina | Joe Wright | $40.6 million | $68.9 million | 1.70x | |
| 75 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | $16 million | $68.8 million | 4.30x | |
| 76 | The Watch | Akiva Schaffer | $68 million | $68.3 million | 1.00x | |
| 77 | Madea's Witness Protection | Eugene Levy | $20 million | $66.9 million | 3.35x | |
| 78 | Quartet | Dustin Hoffman | $11 million | $59.5 million | 5.41x | |
| 79 | Rock of Ages | Adam Shankman | $75 million | $59.4 million | 0.79x | |
| 80 | That's My Boy | Sean Anders | $57.5 million | $57.7 million | 1.00x | |
| 81 | End of Watch | David Ayer | $7 million | $57.6 million | 8.23x | |
| 82 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Peter Hedges | $25 million | $56 million | 2.24x | |
| 83 | Silent Hill: Revelation | M. J. Bassett | HK$20 million | $55.9 million | ||
| 84 | The Three Stooges | Peter Farrelly | $30 million | $54.8 million | 1.83x | |
| 85 | The Five-Year Engagement | Nicholas Stoller | $30 million | $54.2 million | 1.81x | |
| 86 | Lawless | John Hillcoat | $26 million | $53.7 million | 2.06x | |
| 87 | Red Dawn | Dan Bradley | $65 million | $51 million | 0.78x | |
| 88 | Red Tails | Anthony Hemingway | $58 million | $50.4 million | 0.87x | |
| 89 | Trouble with the Curve | Robert Lorenz | $60 million | $49 million | 0.82x | |
| 90 | Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | $42 million | $47.6 million | 1.13x | |
| 91 | The Place Beyond the Pines | Derek Cianfrance | $15 million | $47.1 million | 3.14x | |
| 92 | House at the End of the Street | Mark Tonderai | $6.9 million | $44.3 million | 6.42x | |
| 93 | The Guilt Trip | Anne Fletcher | $40 million | $41.9 million | 1.05x | |
| 94 | Dredd | Pete Travis | $50 million | $41.5 million | 0.83x | |
| 95 | Safe | Boaz Yakin | $30 million | $40.6 million | 1.35x | |
| 96 | One for the Money | Julie Anne Robinson | $40 million | $38.1 million | 0.95x | |
| 97 | Killing Them Softly | Andrew Dominik | $15 million | $37.9 million | 2.53x | |
| 98 | Chernobyl Diaries | Bradley Parker | $1 million | $37.2 million | 37.20x | |
| 99 | Good Deeds | Tyler Perry | $14 million | $35.6 million | 2.54x | |
| 100 | Arbitrage | Nicholas Jarecki | $12 million | $35.5 million | 2.96x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.