The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2014 (A Running List)

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"FOX SEARCHLIGHT

Here's a chart of 2014's twenty highest grossing films (so far, clearly) tracked by Indiewire's box office charts. 

It's not exactly an impressive list just yet, with Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" easily at the top (and is now Anderson's highest grossing film ever), though "The Lunchbox," "Fading Gigolo," "Gloria,"" Tim's Vermeer" and the 2014 Oscar short film program all warrant mention as success stories. The list should evolve drastically into the Spring, with a much more aggressive specialty release schedule in place (compared to January and February, when most specialty distributors were still focused on their 2013 Oscar hopefuls).

Note this list only includes North American grosses for specialty films -- indie, foreign and/or documentary -- that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens) in 2014 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division. It also includes films that screened only as an Academy-qualifier in 2013 ("Tim's Vermeer,"  etc). Grosses as of May 13, 2014.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight) - $53,826,874
2. Bad Words (Focus) - $7,738,136
3. The Lunchbox (Sony Pictures Classics) - $3,428,469
4. The Raid 2 (Sony Pictures Classics) - $2,586,144
5. 2014 Oscar Nominated Short Films (Shorts International) - $2,357,890
6. The Railway Man (Weinstein Company) - $2,260,440
7. Gloria (Roadside Attractions) - $2,106,556
8. Le Week-end (Music Box) - $2,096,928
9. Under The Skin (A24) - $2,067,108
10. Fading Gigolo (Millennium) - $2,029,122
11. Tim's Vermeer (Sony Pictures Classics) - $1,655,654
12. Gimme Shelter (Roadside Attractions) - $1,359,910    
13. Repentance (Codeblack/Lionsgate) - $1,189,612     
14. Finding Vivian Maier (IFC) - $1,101,000
15. Only Lovers Left Alive (Sony Pictures Classics) - $1,061,521
16. Enemy (A24) - $1,007,088
17. Particle Fever (Abramorama) - $778,563
18. Nymphomaniac, Volume I (Magnolia) - $753,729    
19. Frankie & Alice (Codeblack/Lionsgate) - $695,876
20. 50 to 1 (10F) - $679,832

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