Director
Robert ZemeckisFollow
17 films•1984–2020•Adventure · Drama · Comedy
Avg critics71%
Avg audience71%
Avg domestic$121.4M
Domestic
$2.064B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.305B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$18.5M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Forrest Gump | 1994 | $24.5M | $327.0M | 13.4x | $678.0M | A+ | 75% | — |
 Cast Away | 2000 | $28.9M | $234.0M | 8.09x | $430.0M | B | 88% | #2 |
 Back to the Future | 1985 | $11.3M | $224.9M | — | $398.1M | — | 93% | — |
 The Polar Express | 2004 | $23.3M | $163.0M | 6.98x | $286.0M | A+ | 55% | #10 |
 What Lies Beneath | 2000 | $29.7M | $155.0M | 5.23x | $291.0M | B+ | 49% | #10 |
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | $11.2M | $154.1M | 13.7x | $351.5M | — | 96% | — |
 A Christmas Carol | 2009 | $30.1M | $138.0M | 4.59x | $325.0M | B+ | 52% | #21 |
 Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | $27.8M | $118.5M | 4.30x | $332.0M | — | 63% | — |
 Contact | 1997 | $20.6M | $100.9M | 4.90x | $165.9M | — | 69% | — |
 Flight | 2012 | $24.9M | $93.8M | 3.77x | $162.0M | A- | 77% | #32 |
 Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | $23.7M | $88.1M | 3.70x | $244.1M | — | 79% | — |
 Beowulf | 2007 | $27.5M | $82.3M | 2.99x | $196.0M | B- | 71% | #32 |
 Romancing the Stone | 1984 | $5.1M | $75.1M | 14.7x | $115.1M | — | 86% | — |
 Death Becomes Her | 1992 | $12.1M | $58.4M | 4.80x | $149.0M | — | 58% | — |
 Allied | 2016 | $12.7M | $40.1M | 3.20x | $119.3M | — | 60% | — |
 The Walk | 2015 | $1.6M | $10.2M | 2.70x | $61.5M | — | 83% | — |
 The Witches | 2020 | — | $204K | — | — | — | 50% | — |
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 2.2 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.4x
$4.189B worldwide on $1.246B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.988BInternational $2.201B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven21.0x
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#5Most weekends in the top 10Forrest Gump26 weekends#6Most weeks at #1Back to the Future11 weeks#6Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Cast Away+7.3%#8Most weekends in the top 10Back to the Future25 weekends#14Biggest horror filmsWhat Lies Beneath$155.5M#15Biggest 8th weekendsForrest Gump$9.9M#19All-time G domesticThe Polar Express$162.8M
Top 7 of 9 placings across 8 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
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
