List of 1992 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United Kingdom during 1992.

Number one films

†	This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year.[1]

#	Week ending	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	2 January 1992	The Addams Family	£2,138,137		[2]
2	9 January 1992		£1,565,622		[3]
3	16 January 1992		£1,030,084		[4]
4	23 January 1992	Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare	£1,644,019		[5]
5	30 January 1992	JFK	£1,245,488		[6]
6	6 February 1992		£1,230,304		[7]
7	13 February 1992	My Girl	£1,652,035	My Girl reached number one in its second week of release	[8]
8	20 February 1992		£1,713,568		[9]
9	27 February 1992	Father of the Bride	£1,903,985		[10]
10	5 March 1992		£1,129,947		[11]
11	12 March 1992		£910,867		[12]
12	19 March 1992	Cape Fear	£2,758,920	Cape Fear reached number one in its second week of release. It set a record March nationwide opening weekend with a gross of £1,665,000	[13][14]
13	26 March 1992		£2,042,832		[15]
14	2 April 1992		£1,414,001		[16]
15	9 April 1992		£1,058,411		[17]
16	16 April 1992	Hook	£3,236,314		[18]
17	23 April 1992		£3,627,112		[19]
18	30 April 1992		£1,898,638		[20]
19	7 May 1992	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	£1,539,548	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle reached number one in its second week of release	[21]
20	14 May 1992	Basic Instinct †	£3,624,440	Basic Instinct set a record May opening weekend with a gross of £2,169,000	[22][14]
21	21 May 1992		£2,333,122		[23]
22	28 May 1992	Wayne's World	£1,962,473		[24]
23	4 June 1992		£1,581,563		[25]
24	11 June 1992		£1,186,599		[26]
25	18 June 1992	Basic Instinct †	£782,191	Basic Instinct returned to number one in its sixth week of release	[27]
26	25 June 1992	Wayne's World	£664,094	Wayne's World returned to number one in its fifth week of release	[28]
27	2 July 1992		£608,548		[28][29]
28	9 July 1992	Sleepwalkers	£691,617		[30]
29	16 July 1992	Batman Returns	£4,312,764	Batman Returns set an opening weekend record with a gross of £2,774,796 (£2,526,446 excluding previews) beating Terminator 2: Judgment Day's £2.3 million	[31][32][33][34]
30	23 July 1992		£2,473,467		[35]
31	30 July 1992		£1,522,201		[36]
32	6 August 1992	Universal Soldier	£1,349,087	Universal Soldier reached number one in its second week of release	[37]
33	13 August 1992	Beethoven	£1,185,719	Beethoven reached number one in its third week of release	[38]
34	20 August 1992	Lethal Weapon 3	£4,171,402		[39]
35	27 August 1992	Alien 3	£2,683,497		[40]
36	3 September 1992	Lethal Weapon 3	£1,885,401	Lethal Weapon 3 returned to number one in its third week of release	[41]
37	10 September 1992		£1,144,846		[42]
38	17 September 1992	Housesitter	£1,190,085		[43]
39	24 September 1992	Unforgiven	£1,434,711		[44]
40	1 October 1992	Patriot Games	£1,698,592		[45]
41	8 October 1992		£1,297,691		[46]
42	15 October 1992		£1,017,310		[47]
43	22 October 1992	Beauty and the Beast	£1,899,246	Beauty and the Beast reached number one in its second week of release	[48]
44	29 October 1992		£3,612,762		[49]
45	5 November 1992		£1,607,880		[50]
46	12 November 1992	The Last of the Mohicans	£1,289,427		[51]
47	19 November 1992		£1,070,980		[52]
48	26 November 1992	Single White Female	£1,451,694		[53]
49	3 December 1992	Sister Act	£2,266,392		[54]
50	10 December 1992	Death Becomes Her	£1,643,994		[55]
51	17 December 1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	£2,995,947	Home Alone 2 set a record December opening weekend with a gross of £2,128,000	[56][14]
52	24 December 1992		£2,903,628		[57][56]
53	31 December 1992	The Bodyguard	£1,295,415	Weekend only. The Bodyguard set a record Christmas opening	[58][59]

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films in the U.K. between 1 December 1991 and 29 November 1992

Rank[1]	Title	Distributor	Gross (£)[60]
1.	Basic Instinct	Guild	15,471,799
2.	Hook	Columbia TriStar	13,099,578
3.	Lethal Weapon 3	Warner Bros.	11,878,179
4.	Batman Returns	Warner Bros.	10,979,599
5.	The Addams Family	Columbia TriStar	10,396,698
6.	Cape Fear	UIP	10,360,215
7.	Beauty and the Beast	Walt Disney Pictures	9,538,000
8.	Wayne's World	UIP	9,133,551
9.	My Girl	Columbia TriStar	7,629,917
10.	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution	7,306,665

See also

• List of British films — British films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films