Actor
Cate Blanchett
22 films•1998–2024•Drama · Comedy · Action
72%average critics71%average audience$94.7Mdomestic average
Films
22
1998–2024
Domestic
$2.08B
lifetime
Worldwide
$5.47B
lifetime
Avg opening
$27.8M
3-day
Avg legs
4.58x
opening → total
Return
3.0x
on $1.80B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 22 films featuring Cate Blanchett, from Elizabeth (1998) to Borderlands (2024), together grossing $2.08B domestic and $5.47B worldwide. The biggest hit is Thor: Ragnarok (2017) at $850.5M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $122.7M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Borderlands | 2024 | $8.6M | $15.5M | 1.80x | $32.9M | D+ | 10% | — |
 Tár | 2022 | $1.0M | $6.8M | 6.50x | $29.3M | — | 91% | — |
 Don't Look Up | 2021 | — | — | — | $1.2M | — | 56% | — |
 Nightmare Alley | 2021 | $2.8M | $11.3M | 4.00x | $39.6M | B | 80% | — |
 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | 2019 | $55.0M | $160.8M | 2.92x | $524.0M | A | 90% | #16 |
 Ocean's 8 | 2018 | $41.6M | $140.2M | 3.37x | $297.7M | B+ | 69% | #24 |
 The House with a Clock in Its Walls | 2018 | $26.6M | $68.5M | 2.58x | $131.5M | B+ | 65% | #46 |
 Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | $122.7M | $315.1M | 2.57x | $850.5M | A | 92% | #8 |
 Carol | 2015 | $254K | $12.7M | 50.1x | $41.9M | — | 94% | — |
 Cinderella | 2015 | $67.9M | $201.2M | 2.96x | $542.4M | A | 84% | #10 |
 How to Train Your Dragon 2 | 2014 | $49.5M | $177.0M | 3.58x | $614.6M | A | 92% | #17 |
 The Monuments Men | 2014 | $22.0M | $78.0M | 3.54x | $158.7M | B+ | 32% | #44 |
 Blue Jasmine | 2013 | $4.0M | $33.4M | 8.40x | $102.9M | — | 90% | — |
 Hanna | 2011 | $12.4M | $40.3M | 3.30x | $65.3M | — | 71% | — |
 Robin Hood | 2010 | $36.1M | $105.0M | 2.92x | $322.0M | B- | 43% | #26 |
 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 2008 | $100.0M | $317.0M | 3.17x | $787.0M | B | 77% | #3 |
 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | $26.9M | $128.0M | 4.75x | $336.0M | A | 71% | #20 |
 Babel | 2006 | $5.6M | $34.3M | 6.17x | $135.0M | B- | 68% | — |
 The Aviator | 2004 | $11.4M | $103.0M | 9.10x | $214.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | $113K | $24.0M | 212.3x | $34.8M | — | 57% | — |
 The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | $12.7M | $81.3M | 6.40x | $128.8M | — | 85% | — |
 Elizabeth | 1998 | $3.4M | $30.1M | 8.90x | $82.2M | — | 83% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
Elizabeth1998The Talented Mr. Ripley1999The Aviator2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004Babel2006Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008Robin Hood2010Hanna2011Blue Jasmine2013How to Train Your Dragon 22014The Monuments Men2014Carol2015Cinderella2015Thor: Ragnarok2017Ocean's 82018The House with a Clock in Its Walls2018How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019Don't Look Up2021Nightmare Alley2021Tár2022Borderlands2024DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.0x
$5.36B worldwide on $1.80B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.05BInternational $3.31B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven5.7x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
