Actor & Director
Forest WhitakerFollow
28 films•2 as director•1986–2025•Drama · Action · Crime
Avg critics61%
Avg audience65%
Avg domestic$58.4M
Domestic
$1.576B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$1.995B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$13.3M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Platoon | 1986 | $241K | $138.0M | 16.5x | — | — | 89% | — |
 Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | $11.8M | $123.9M | 10.5x | — | — | 90% | — |
 The Butler | 2013 | $24.6M | $117.0M | 4.73x | $177.0M | A | 72% | #28 |
 Phenomenon | 1996 | $24.5M | $104.6M | 4.30x | $152.0M | — | 49% | — |
 Arrival | 2016 | $24.1M | $100.5M | 4.17x | $202.1M | A | 93% | #29 |
 Panic Room | 2002 | $30.1M | $96.4M | 3.21x | $196.0M | B | 76% | #25 |
 Taken 3 | 2015 | $39.2M | $89.3M | 2.28x | $327.7M | B+ | 13% | #33 |
 Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | $32.7M | $77.2M | 2.36x | $99.1M | B+ | 73% | #41 |
 Vantage Point | 2008 | $22.9M | $72.3M | 3.16x | $152.0M | B- | 34% | #44 |
 Waiting to Exhale | 1995 | $14.1M | $66.9M | 4.70x | $81.3M | — | 56% | — |
 Stakeout | 1987 | $5.2M | $65.7M | 12.7x | — | — | 89% | — |
 The Crying Game | 1992 | $101K | $62.5M | 12.0x | — | — | 95% | — |
 Hope Floats | 1998 | $14.2M | $60.1M | 4.20x | $81.5M | — | 28% | — |
 Species | 1995 | $17.2M | $60.1M | 3.50x | $113.4M | B- | 42% | — |
 Southpaw | 2015 | $16.7M | $52.4M | 3.10x | $94.1M | — | 59% | — |
 The Color of Money | 1986 | $6.4M | $52.3M | 8.20x | — | B- | 87% | — |
 Phone Booth | 2002 | $15.0M | $46.6M | 3.10x | $97.8M | — | 72% | — |
 The Great Debaters | 2007 | $6.0M | $30.2M | 5.00x | — | — | 80% | — |
 Blown Away | 1994 | $10.4M | $30.1M | 2.90x | — | — | 39% | — |
 Street Kings | 2008 | $12.5M | $26.4M | 2.10x | $65.5M | — | 37% | — |
 Respect | 2021 | $8.8M | $24.3M | 2.76x | $32.1M | A | 63% | #43 |
 Battlefield Earth | 2000 | $11.5M | $21.5M | 1.90x | $29.7M | — | 3% | — |
 The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | $143K | $17.6M | — | $49.2M | — | 87% | — |
 Repo Men | 2010 | $6.1M | $13.9M | 2.30x | $18.2M | — | 22% | — |
 Bloodsport | 1988 | $516K | $11.8M | 6.10x | — | — | 48% | — |
 Out of the Furnace | 2013 | $5.2M | $11.3M | 2.20x | $15.4M | — | 53% | — |
 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | $166K | $3.3M | 7.60x | $10.7M | — | 84% | — |
 Havoc | 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | 64% | — |
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
0$100M$200M$300M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.4 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.9x
$1.913B worldwide on $668.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $994.8MInternational $918.7M
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven8.9x
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, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#8Biggest 10th weekendsPlatoon$8.2M#8Biggest January openingsTaken 3$39.2M#9Most weeks at #1Good Morning, Vietnam9 weeks#13Most weekends in the top 10Platoon22 weekends
4 placings across 4 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.