Highest-Grossing Films in a Language Other than English at US Box Office
| Title | Lifetime gross earnings | Opening weekend box office gross earnings | US release date | Director | Oscar nominated? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eat Drink Man Woman | $7,294,403 | $155,512 | August 3, 1994 | Ang Lee | Yes |
| Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-cellent Adventure | $9,080,818 | $3,424,702 | September 4, 2015 | Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste | No |
| Instructions Not Included | $44,467,206 | $7,846,426 | August 30, 2013 | Eugenio Derbez | No |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | $128,078,872 | $663,205 | December 8, 2000 | Ang Lee | Yes |
Few of the most commercially successful films in US movie theaters are in a language other than English. One journalist claims that to overcome what director Bong Joon-ho calls “the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles,” it is essential for a film to receive an Oscar nomination: non-English language films that are not given this public indication of high quality will struggle to find an audience compared with those that do receive Oscar nominations.