Actor
Frances McDormand
14 films•1984–2022•Drama · Comedy · Crime
82%average critics79%average audience$80.4Mdomestic average
Films
14
1984–2022
Domestic
$1.13B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.11B
lifetime
Avg opening
$18.5M
3-day
Avg legs
5.98x
opening → total
Return
4.0x
on $746.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films featuring Frances McDormand, from Blood Simple (1984) to Women Talking (2022), together grossing $1.13B domestic and $3.11B worldwide. The biggest hit is Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) at $1.12B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $97.9M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Women Talking | 2022 | $970K | $5.5M | 5.60x | $9.2M | — | 90% | — |
 Nomadland | 2020 | $503K | $3.7M | 7.40x | $39.5M | — | 93% | — |
 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | $4.4M | $54.5M | 12.4x | $161.2M | — | 90% | — |
 The Good Dinosaur | 2015 | $39.2M | $123.1M | 3.14x | $333.8M | A | 76% | #26 |
 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | 2012 | $60.3M | $216.0M | 3.59x | $747.0M | A | 78% | #10 |
 Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | $523K | $45.5M | 87.0x | $68.8M | — | 93% | — |
 Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | $97.9M | $352.0M | 3.60x | $1.12B | A | 35% | #2 |
 Burn After Reading | 2008 | $19.1M | $60.4M | 3.16x | $164.0M | — | 78% | — |
 Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | $16.1M | $125.0M | 7.76x | $265.0M | A- | 72% | #17 |
 Almost Famous | 2000 | $6.9M | $32.5M | 4.70x | $47.4M | — | 91% | — |
 Fargo | 1996 | $2.8M | $24.6M | 8.70x | $51.2M | — | 95% | — |
 Primal Fear | 1996 | $9.9M | $56.1M | 5.70x | $102.6M | — | 77% | — |
 Raising Arizona | 1987 | $36K | $22.8M | 630.4x | — | — | 91% | — |
 Blood Simple | 1984 | $42K | $3.9M | — | $4.3M | — | 94% | — |
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
Blood Simple1984Raising Arizona1987Fargo1996Primal Fear1996Almost Famous2000Something's Gotta Give2003Burn After Reading2008Transformers: Dark of the Moon2011Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted2012Moonrise Kingdom2012The Good Dinosaur2015Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017Nomadland2020Women Talking2022DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.0x
$3.00B worldwide on $746.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.04BInternational $1.96B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven13.4x
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 →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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.