This is a list of films which placed number-one at the weekend box office in Australia during 2001. Amounts are in Australian dollars.
N/A denotes information that is not available from Urban Cinefile nor Movie Marshal.
Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Weekend End Date Film Box office Notes 1 Meet the Parents $3,232,242 2 What Women Want $5,117,384 3 Cast Away $4,539,061 4 $3,627,587 5 $2,150,152 6 $1,392,345 7 Hannibal $4,247,648 Hannibal set a record February opening and a record for an age-restricted film 8 $1,785,493 9 Proof of Life $1,502,269 10 Traffic $2,616,932 11 Miss Congeniality $4,330,856 12 $3,473,454 13 $1,999,690 14 Save the Last Dance $1,587,517 15 Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles $2,257,164 16 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie $2,156,887 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie reached number one in its fourth week of release 17 The Mexican $1,839,550 18 $1,093,477 19 The Mummy Returns $5,440,204 20 $3,227,374 21 Moulin Rouge! $3,655,261 22 $3,589,500 23 Pearl Harbor $6,680,157 24 $2,976,993 25 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider $5,105,317 26 Shrek † $3,273,603 Shrek reached number one in its fourth week on the chart 27 $3,169,980 28 $3,085,851 29 $2,102,945 30 Bridget Jones's Diary $3,926,141 31 $2,952,549 32 Planet of the Apes $3,981,914 33 $2,131,017 34 A Knight's Tale $2,233,374 35 Jurassic Park III $3,742,739 36 $2,053,941 37 A.I. Artificial Intelligence $1,591,000 38 The Fast and the Furious $3,300,893 39 Rush Hour 2 $4,334,524 40 Cats & Dogs $2,691,589 Cats & Dogs reached number one in its third week of release 41 Legally Blonde $2,539,971 42 Scary Movie 2 $1,507,503 43 The Man Who Sued God $1,530,832 44 $1,341,408 45 The Others $2,570,457 46 $1,787,925 47 N/A The Others grossed $1,690,869 for the week ended 28 November 48 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone $9,249,505 49 $5,157,175 50 $3,207,844 51 $2,279,772 52 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $9,749,937
See also List of Australian films — Australian films by year References