Actor
Robert Downey Jr.
23 films•1994–2026•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
70%average critics77%average audience$248.0Mdomestic average
Films
23
1994–2026
Domestic
$5.70B
lifetime
Worldwide
$15.39B
lifetime
Avg opening
$89.2M
3-day
Avg legs
3.53x
opening → total
Return
4.9x
on $3.12B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 23 films featuring Robert Downey Jr., from Natural Born Killers (1994) to Avengers: Doomsday (2026), together grossing $5.70B domestic and $15.39B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avengers: Endgame (2019) at $2.80B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $357.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avengers: Doomsday | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 Oppenheimer | 2023 | $82.5M | $329.9M | 4.00x | $975.8M | A | 92% | #5 |
 Dolittle | 2020 | $22.5M | $77.0M | 3.40x | $251.5M | B | 15% | #4 |
 Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | $357.1M | $858.4M | 2.40x | $2.80B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | $257.8M | $678.8M | 2.63x | $2.05B | A | 85% | #2 |
 Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | $117.0M | $334.2M | 2.86x | $878.9M | A | 92% | #6 |
 Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | $179.1M | $408.1M | 2.28x | $1.15B | A | 91% | #3 |
 Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | $191.3M | $459.0M | 2.40x | $1.40B | A | 76% | #3 |
 The Judge | 2014 | $13.1M | $47.1M | 3.60x | $76.1M | — | 49% | — |
 Iron Man 3 | 2013 | $174.0M | $409.0M | 2.35x | $1.21B | A | 79% | #2 |
 The Avengers | 2012 | $207.0M | $623.0M | 3.01x | $1.52B | A+ | 91% | #1 |
 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 2011 | $39.6M | $187.0M | 4.71x | $544.0M | A- | 60% | #9 |
 Due Date | 2010 | $32.7M | $101.0M | 3.08x | $212.0M | B- | 39% | #29 |
 Iron Man 2 | 2010 | $128.0M | $312.0M | 2.44x | $624.0M | A | 72% | #3 |
 Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | $62.3M | $209.0M | 3.35x | $524.0M | B | 70% | #10 |
 Iron Man | 2008 | $98.6M | $319.0M | 3.23x | $585.0M | A | 94% | #2 |
 Tropic Thunder | 2008 | $25.8M | $111.0M | 4.28x | $196.0M | B | 82% | #23 |
 Zodiac | 2007 | $13.4M | $33.1M | 2.50x | $83.0M | — | 90% | — |
 The Shaggy Dog | 2006 | $16.3M | $61.1M | 3.75x | $87.1M | B+ | 25% | #48 |
 Good Night, and Good Luck | 2005 | $3.1M | $31.5M | 10.3x | $56.6M | — | 93% | — |
 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | $181K | $4.2M | 23.4x | $16.8M | — | 86% | — |
 Gothika | 2003 | $19.3M | $59.7M | 3.09x | $142.0M | B | 15% | — |
 Natural Born Killers | 1994 | $11.2M | $50.3M | 4.50x | — | — | 52% | — |
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 1.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.9x
$15.39B worldwide on $3.12B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $5.65BInternational $9.73B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven9.8x
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 →#1Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Endgame5 days#2Biggest worldwide runsAvengers: Endgame$2.80B#2Biggest opening weekendsAvengers: Endgame$357.1M#3Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Infinity War11 days#4Biggest opening weekendsAvengers: Infinity War$257.7M#4Biggest second weekendsAvengers: Infinity War$114.8M#7Biggest second weekendsThe Avengers$103.1M#8Biggest PG-13 openingsThe Avengers$207.4M#8All-time R domesticOppenheimer$326.7M#9Biggest opening weekendsThe Avengers$207.4M
Top 10 of 50 placings across 13 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.
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