Barbie still came out on top in terms of ticket sales, but our analysis showed that Oppenheimer's win ended what would have been a 20-year sequence of the Best Picture winner not even being in the top 10 highest grossing films of that year, going back to the final Lord of the Rings film in 2004.
Prior to 2004, the Best Picture winner had been in the top 10 every year going back to at least 1977.
2024 in numbers: The biggest stories of the year in maps and charts In many ways, it's been the year of the comeback.
And 30 years after they first emerged, Noel and Liam Gallagher reconciled once more, selling 1.4 million Oasis tickets to fans in 158 countries for a world tour to look forward to in 2025.
Let’s go back through some of the most memorable, important, and unmissable stories from the last year.
