Actor
Viggo Mortensen
9 films•2001–2018•Drama · Adventure · Fantasy
82%average critics83%average audience$138.3Mdomestic average
Films
9
2001–2018
Domestic
$1.25B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.51B
lifetime
Avg opening
$23.8M
3-day
Avg legs
6.40x
opening → total
Return
6.8x
on $516.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 9 films featuring Viggo Mortensen, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) to Green Book (2018), together grossing $1.25B domestic and $3.51B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) at $1.12B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $72.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Green Book | 2018 | $5.5M | $85.1M | 15.5x | $320.0M | A+ | 77% | — |
 Captain Fantastic | 2016 | $94K | $5.9M | 62.7x | $21.3M | — | 82% | — |
 The Road | 2009 | $1.5M | $8.1M | 5.40x | $29.2M | — | 74% | — |
 Eastern Promises | 2007 | $5.6M | $17.2M | 3.00x | $56.1M | — | 89% | — |
 A History of Violence | 2005 | $516K | $31.5M | 61.0x | $61.5M | — | 88% | — |
 Hidalgo | 2004 | $18.8M | $67.3M | 3.57x | $108.0M | A- | 46% | #41 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | $72.6M | $377.0M | 5.19x | $1.12B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | $62.0M | $340.0M | 5.48x | $923.0M | A | 95% | #2 |
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | $47.2M | $313.0M | 6.64x | $868.0M | A- | 91% | #2 |
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 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.8x
$3.51B worldwide on $516.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.25BInternational $2.26B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven13.9x
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 →#6Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers5.48x#8Best multipliersThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King5.19x#40Biggest worldwide runsThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King$1.12B
3 placings across 2 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.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
