Actor
Paul Dano
11 films•2006–2026•Drama · Action · Comedy
77%average critics74%average audience$71.9Mdomestic average
Films
11
2006–2026
Domestic
$791.3M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.81B
lifetime
Avg opening
$21.2M
3-day
Avg legs
5.17x
opening → total
Return
2.8x
on $641.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 11 films featuring Paul Dano, from Little Miss Sunshine (2006) to The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026), together grossing $791.3M domestic and $1.81B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Batman (2022) at $772.5M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $134.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Wizard of the Kremlin | 2026 | $486K | $486K | 1.00x | $6.8M | — | 46% | #120 |
 The Batman | 2022 | $134.0M | $369.6M | 2.80x | $772.5M | A | 85% | #7 |
 The Fabelmans | 2022 | $2.3M | $17.3M | 7.70x | $43.3M | A | 92% | — |
 Okja | 2017 | — | — | — | $2.0M | — | 87% | — |
 Swiss Army Man | 2016 | $1.4M | $4.2M | 3.00x | $5.8M | — | 73% | — |
 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | $6.7M | $56.7M | 8.49x | $188.0M | A | 95% | — |
 Looper | 2012 | $20.8M | $66.5M | 3.20x | $177.0M | B | 93% | #44 |
 Cowboys & Aliens | 2011 | $36.4M | $100.0M | 2.75x | $175.0M | B | 44% | #29 |
 Knight and Day | 2010 | $20.1M | $76.4M | 3.79x | $259.0M | B+ | 51% | #45 |
 There Will Be Blood | 2007 | $4.9M | $40.2M | 8.30x | $77.2M | — | 91% | — |
 Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | $5.6M | $59.9M | 10.7x | $100.6M | — | 91% | — |
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 2.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
2.8x
$1.81B worldwide on $641.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $791.3MInternational $1.01B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.6x
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 →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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.