Actor
Joaquin Phoenix
14 films•2000–2024•Drama · Thriller · Comedy
66%average critics73%average audience$96.2Mdomestic average
Films
14
2000–2024
Domestic
$1.35B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.31B
lifetime
Avg opening
$27.5M
3-day
Avg legs
3.57x
opening → total
Return
3.5x
on $947.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films featuring Joaquin Phoenix, from Gladiator (2000) to Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), together grossing $1.35B domestic and $3.31B worldwide. The biggest hit is Joker (2019) at $1.08B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $96.2M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joker: Folie à Deux | 2024 | $37.7M | $58.3M | 1.50x | $207.5M | B | 32% | #36 |
 Beau Is Afraid | 2023 | $2.7M | $8.2M | 3.10x | $11.2M | — | 67% | — |
 Napoleon | 2023 | $32.8M | $61.5M | 1.88x | $222.4M | A | 57% | #42 |
 Joker | 2019 | $96.2M | $335.5M | 3.49x | $1.08B | B+ | 68% | #9 |
 Inherent Vice | 2014 | $328K | $8.1M | 24.7x | $14.8M | — | 73% | — |
 Her | 2013 | $5.3M | $25.6M | 4.80x | $48.0M | — | 95% | — |
 The Master | 2012 | $736K | $16.2M | 22.1x | $29.0M | — | 85% | — |
 Walk the Line | 2005 | $22.3M | $120.0M | 5.35x | $187.0M | A | 83% | #16 |
 Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | $100K | $23.5M | 235.0x | $36.5M | — | 91% | — |
 Ladder 49 | 2004 | $22.1M | $74.5M | 3.37x | $102.0M | A- | 40% | #37 |
 The Village | 2004 | $50.7M | $114.0M | 2.25x | $258.0M | C | 43% | #20 |
 Brother Bear | 2003 | $19.4M | $85.3M | 4.40x | $250.0M | A | 38% | #35 |
 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 |
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 1.8 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.5x
$3.31B worldwide on $947.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.35BInternational $1.97B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven19.6x
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 →#6Biggest R openingsJoker$96.2M#6All-time R domesticJoker$335.5M#11Biggest horror openingsSigns$60.1M#44Biggest worldwide runsJoker$1.07B
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 schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
