Actor
Mel Gibson
16 films•4 as director•1979–2016•Action · Drama · Adventure
72%average critics75%average audience$120.9Mdomestic average
Films
16
1979–2016
Domestic
$1.93B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.77B
lifetime
Avg opening
$25.3M
3-day
Avg legs
5.55x
opening → total
Return
4.4x
on $801.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 16 films credited to Mel Gibson, 4 as director and 13 in the cast, from Mad Max (1979) to Hacksaw Ridge (2016), together grossing $1.93B domestic and $3.77B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Passion of the Christ (2004) at $609.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $83.8M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | $15.2M | $67.2M | 4.42x | $168.4M | A | 88% | #46 |
 Apocalypto | 2006 | $15.0M | $50.9M | 3.39x | $121.0M | B+ | 65% | — |
 The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | $83.8M | $370.0M | 4.42x | $609.0M | A+ | 50% | #3 |
 Signs | 2002 | $60.1M | $228.0M | 3.79x | $408.0M | B | 76% | #6 |
 We Were Soldiers | 2002 | $20.2M | $78.1M | 3.87x | $115.0M | A | 63% | #33 |
 Chicken Run | 2000 | $17.5M | $107.0M | 6.10x | $225.0M | A- | 97% | #19 |
 The Patriot | 2000 | $22.4M | $113.0M | 5.06x | $215.0M | A | 62% | #18 |
 What Women Want | 2000 | $33.6M | $183.0M | 5.44x | $374.0M | B+ | 53% | #5 |
 Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | $34.0M | $130.4M | 3.80x | $285.4M | — | 54% | — |
 Braveheart | 1995 | $9.9M | $75.6M | 7.60x | $213.0M | — | 74% | — |
 Pocahontas | 1995 | $29.5M | $142.0M | 4.80x | $347.0M | — | 59% | — |
 Lethal Weapon 3 | 1992 | $33.2M | $144.7M | 4.40x | $319.7M | — | 61% | — |
 Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | $20.4M | $147.3M | 7.20x | $227.3M | — | 82% | — |
 Lethal Weapon | 1987 | $6.8M | $65.2M | 9.50x | $120.2M | — | 82% | — |
 The Road Warrior | 1981 | $2.5M | $23.7M | 9.40x | $23.7M | — | 93% | — |
 Mad Max | 1979 | — | $8.8M | — | — | — | 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 2.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.4x
$3.54B worldwide on $801.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.78BInternational $1.77B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven20.3x
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 →#3All-time R domesticThe Passion of the Christ$370.3M#8Biggest 7th weekendsThe Passion of the Christ$15.2M#11Biggest horror openingsSigns$60.1M#13Biggest R openingsThe Passion of the Christ$83.8M
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.