Actor
Tommy Lee Jones
15 films•1991–2019•Action · Drama · Adventure
70%average critics64%average audience$119.4Mdomestic average
Films
15
1991–2019
Domestic
$1.79B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.03B
lifetime
Avg opening
$30.0M
3-day
Avg legs
5.10x
opening → total
Return
3.5x
on $1.16B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 15 films featuring Tommy Lee Jones, from JFK (1991) to Ad Astra (2019), together grossing $1.79B domestic and $4.03B worldwide. The biggest hit is Men in Black³ (2012) at $654.0M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) at $65.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ad Astra | 2019 | $19.0M | $50.2M | 2.60x | $135.2M | — | 83% | — |
 Jason Bourne | 2016 | $59.2M | $162.4M | 2.74x | $416.0M | A- | 54% | #15 |
 Hope Springs | 2012 | $14.7M | $63.5M | 4.34x | $133.0M | — | 75% | #50 |
 Men in Black³ | 2012 | $54.6M | $179.0M | 3.28x | $654.0M | B+ | 67% | #14 |
 Captain America: The First Avenger | 2011 | $65.1M | $177.0M | 2.72x | $371.0M | A- | 80% | #12 |
 No Country for Old Men | 2007 | $7.8M | $74.3M | 9.60x | $172.0M | — | 93% | #35 |
 Men in Black II | 2002 | $52.1M | $190.0M | 3.65x | $442.0M | B+ | 38% | #8 |
 Rules of Engagement | 2000 | $15.0M | $61.3M | 4.09x | $71.7M | A- | 36% | #38 |
 Space Cowboys | 2000 | $18.1M | $90.5M | 5.00x | $129.0M | A- | 78% | #24 |
 Men in Black | 1997 | $51.1M | $251.0M | 4.91x | $589.0M | B+ | 91% | — |
 Batman Forever | 1995 | $52.8M | $184.0M | 3.50x | $336.5M | — | 41% | — |
 Blue Sky | 1994 | $764K | $3.4M | 4.40x | $3.4M | — | 80% | — |
 Natural Born Killers | 1994 | $11.2M | $50.3M | 4.50x | — | — | 52% | — |
 The Fugitive | 1993 | $23.8M | $183.9M | 7.70x | $369.0M | — | 96% | — |
 JFK | 1991 | $5.2M | $70.4M | 13.5x | $205.4M | — | 85% | — |
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
3.5x
$4.02B worldwide on $1.16B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.74BInternational $2.29B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven8.4x
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.