Actor
Donald Sutherland
8 films•1978–2019•Action · Adventure · Thriller
67%average critics63%average audience$113.6Mdomestic average
Films
8
1978–2019
Domestic
$909.1M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.75B
lifetime
Avg opening
$30.6M
3-day
Avg legs
4.62x
opening → total
Return
3.1x
on $567.5M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 8 films featuring Donald Sutherland, from Animal House (1978) to Ad Astra (2019), together grossing $909.1M domestic and $1.75B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) at $865.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $158.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ad Astra | 2019 | $19.0M | $50.2M | 2.60x | $135.2M | — | 83% | — |
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | $158.0M | $425.0M | 2.69x | $865.0M | A | 90% | #1 |
 The Mechanic | 2011 | $11.4M | $29.1M | 2.50x | $76.3M | — | 54% | — |
 Fool's Gold | 2008 | $21.6M | $70.2M | 3.25x | $109.0M | B- | 11% | #46 |
 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | 2001 | $11.4M | $32.1M | 2.82x | $85.1M | C+ | 44% | — |
 Space Cowboys | 2000 | $18.1M | $90.5M | 5.00x | $129.0M | A- | 78% | #24 |
 JFK | 1991 | $5.2M | $70.4M | 13.5x | $205.4M | — | 85% | — |
 Animal House | 1978 | $277K | $141.6M | — | $141.6M | — | 89% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 5.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.1x
$1.75B worldwide on $567.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $909.1MInternational $837.5M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven47.2x
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.
Records held
All records →#27Biggest opening weekendsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$158.1M#41Biggest domestic runsThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire$424.7M
2 placings across 2 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
