Actor
Joaquin PhoenixFollow
22 films•1989–2025•Drama · Crime · Thriller
Avg critics67%
Avg audience71%
Avg domestic$70.9M
Domestic
$1.559B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$3.656B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$19.2M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joker | 2019 | $96.2M | $335.4M | 3.49x | $1.079B | B+ | 68% | #9 |
 Signs | 2002 | $60.1M | $228.0M | 3.79x | $408.0M | B | 76% | #6 |
 Gladiator | 2000 | $34.8M | $188.0M | 5.39x | $461.0M | A | 80% | #4 |
 Walk the Line | 2005 | $22.3M | $120.0M | 5.35x | $187.0M | A | 83% | #16 |
 The Village | 2004 | $50.7M | $114.0M | 2.25x | $258.0M | C | 43% | #20 |
 Parenthood | 1989 | $10.5M | $100.0M | 9.50x | $126.3M | A | 92% | — |
 Brother Bear | 2003 | $19.4M | $85.3M | 4.40x | $250.0M | A | 38% | #35 |
 Ladder 49 | 2004 | $22.1M | $74.5M | 3.37x | $102.0M | A- | 40% | #37 |
 Napoleon | 2023 | $32.8M | $61.5M | 1.88x | $222.4M | A | 57% | #42 |
 Joker: Folie à Deux | 2024 | $37.7M | $58.3M | 1.50x | $207.5M | B | 32% | #36 |
 8MM | 1999 | $14.3M | $36.4M | 2.60x | $96.4M | C- | 23% | — |
 We Own the Night | 2007 | $10.8M | $28.6M | 2.60x | $55.3M | — | 57% | — |
 Her | 2013 | $260K | $25.6M | 4.80x | $48.0M | — | 95% | — |
 Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | $100K | $23.5M | 10.2x | $36.5M | — | 91% | — |
 To Die For | 1995 | $387K | $21.3M | 3.40x | $27.7M | C+ | 88% | — |
 The Master | 2012 | $736K | $16.2M | 3.70x | $29.0M | — | 85% | — |
 Eddington | 2025 | $4.4M | $10.1M | 2.30x | $13.2M | — | 69% | — |
 Beau Is Afraid | 2023 | $320K | $8.2M | 3.10x | $11.2M | — | 67% | — |
 Inherent Vice | 2014 | $328K | $8.1M | 2.90x | $14.8M | — | 73% | — |
 Quills | 2000 | $249K | $7.1M | 28.3x | $11.7M | — | 75% | — |
 U Turn | 1997 | $2.7M | $6.7M | 2.50x | — | — | 59% | — |
 You Were Never Really Here | 2018 | $133K | $2.5M | 4.90x | $10.9M | — | 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 1.7 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.3x
$3.519B worldwide on $1.073B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.450BInternational $2.068B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x 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, 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#1Biggest October openingsJoker$96.2M#6Biggest R openingsJoker$96.2M#6All-time R domesticJoker$335.5M#7Biggest August openingsSigns$60.1M#11Biggest horror openingsSigns$60.1M
Top 5 of 6 placings across 6 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.
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