Top 5 Movie Trilogies
Published:We’ve discovered that good things often come in threes, which is certainly the case with our Top 5 Movie Trilogies, featuring five of the most beloved and acclaimed sets of three films ever made!
1) The Godfather Trilogy
- Follows the fictional Corleone Mafia family through the course of its history in the United States and their homeland Sicily
- The Godfather is often called the greatest film of all-time and Godfather II is often called the greatest sequel ever
- The films have earned over $550 million worldwide
- Heavily awarded, winning 9 out of 29 total Academy Award nominations
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II won the Oscar for Best Picture
2) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Among the highest-grossing film series of all-time
- Considered to be one of the biggest and most ambitious film projects ever undertaken, with an overall budget of $281 million
- Films were critically acclaimed and heavily awarded, winning 17 out of 30 total Academy Award nominations
- The Return of the King, won all of its 11 Academy Awards nominations (tied for most ever with Ben-Hur and Titanic)
- Set in Middle-earth, the films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and a Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, and thus ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron
3) The Star Wars Trilogy (original)
- Became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon
- Star Wars the fifth-highest-grossing film series ever
- A second trilogy was produced in the mid-2000s with a third trilogy coming soon
- Series has spawned an extensive media franchise – including books, television series, computer and video games, and comic books
- Franchise depicts a galaxy described as "far, far away" in the distant past, and portrays Jedi as a representation of good, in conflict with the Sith, their evil counterpart
4) The Back to the Future Trilogy
- First film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international phenomenon
- Trilogy was nominated for five Academy Awards all together, winning one
- Spinoffs include a television series, video games, comics, and a theme park ride at Universal Studios
- follows the adventures of Marty McFly, and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown, as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley
- Box office earnings of $965.5 million
5) The Indiana Jones Trilogy
- Based on the adventures of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, a fictional archaeologist
- Series nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning seven
- North American box office gross: $936.5 million
- Franchise has expanded beyond film to television, novels, comics, and video games
- A more recent fourth Indiana Jones film also exists (with more potentially coming)
