Actor
Willem DafoeFollow
38 films•1985–2024•Drama · Crime · Action
Avg critics72%
Avg audience70%
Avg domestic$65.7M
Domestic
$2.365B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$5.663B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$13.5M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Spider-Man | 2002 | $115.0M | $405.9M | 3.53x | $823.9M | A- | 90% | #1 |
 Finding Nemo | 2003 | $70.3M | $380.5M | 4.84x | $936.1M | A+ | 99% | #2 |
 Aquaman | 2018 | $67.9M | $335.1M | 4.94x | $1.149B | A- | 64% | #5 |
 Platoon | 1986 | $241K | $138.0M | 16.5x | — | — | 89% | — |
 The Fault in Our Stars | 2014 | $48.0M | $124.9M | 2.60x | $307.2M | A+ | 81% | #25 |
 Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | $20.3M | $122.0M | 6.00x | $207.5M | — | 81% | — |
 Nosferatu | 2024 | $21.7M | $95.6M | 4.40x | $181.0M | A | 87% | #25 |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 The English Patient | 1996 | $278K | $78.7M | — | $231.7M | — | 86% | — |
 Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | $172K | $70.0M | 6.30x | $161.0M | — | 84% | — |
 The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | $800K | $59.1M | 6.90x | $163.0M | — | 92% | — |
 Speed 2: Cruise Control | 1997 | $16.2M | $48.1M | 3.00x | $150.5M | B− | 4% | — |
 The Great Wall | 2017 | $18.5M | $45.2M | 2.40x | $334.5M | — | 36% | — |
 John Wick | 2014 | $14.4M | $43.0M | 3.00x | $86.1M | B | 86% | — |
 Poor Things | 2023 | $661K | $34.6M | 16.3x | $117.6M | — | 92% | — |
 Mississippi Burning | 1988 | $225K | $34.6M | 8.60x | — | A | 79% | — |
 Mr. Bean's Holiday | 2007 | $9.9M | $33.3M | 3.37x | $232.0M | B | 50% | — |
 Daybreakers | 2010 | $15.1M | $30.1M | 2.00x | $51.4M | — | 69% | — |
 xXx: State of the Union | 2005 | $12.7M | $26.9M | 2.10x | $71.1M | — | 17% | — |
 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | $113K | $24.0M | 5.30x | $34.8M | — | 57% | — |
 Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | $266K | $21.0M | 3.00x | $45.9M | — | 93% | — |
 To Live and Die in L.A. | 1985 | $3.6M | $17.3M | 4.90x | — | — | 89% | — |
 A Most Wanted Man | 2014 | $2.7M | $17.2M | 5.30x | $36.1M | — | 86% | — |
 Wild at Heart | 1990 | $2.9M | $14.6M | 5.00x | — | — | 66% | — |
 Nightmare Alley | 2021 | $2.8M | $11.3M | 4.00x | $39.6M | B | 80% | — |
 Out of the Furnace | 2013 | $5.2M | $11.3M | 2.20x | $15.4M | — | 53% | — |
 The Lighthouse | 2019 | $428K | $10.9M | 3.60x | $18.3M | — | 90% | — |
 Motherless Brooklyn | 2019 | $3.5M | $9.3M | 2.70x | $18.6M | — | 65% | — |
 The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | $401K | $8.4M | 20.9x | $8.4M | — | 82% | — |
 Affliction | 1998 | $64K | $6.3M | — | — | — | 88% | — |
 The Florida Project | 2017 | $157K | $5.9M | 9.30x | $11.2M | — | 96% | — |
 Kinds of Kindness | 2024 | $377K | $5.0M | 3.20x | $16.4M | — | 71% | — |
 Paris, Je T'aime | 2006 | $39K | $4.9M | 10.0x | — | — | 85% | — |
 eXistenZ | 1999 | $810K | $2.8M | 3.50x | — | — | 77% | — |
 Antichrist | 2009 | $71K | $404K | 5.70x | $2.5M | — | 53% | — |
 The Boondock Saints | 1999 | $20K | $52K | — | $0.4M | — | 26% | — |
 Death Note | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | 36% | — |
 What Happened to Monday | 2017 | — | — | — | $26.0M | — | 62% | — |
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
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
4.3x
$5.635B worldwide on $1.320B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.146BInternational $3.489B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven23.0x
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#3Biggest Christmas openingsAquaman$67.9M#4All-time G domesticFinding Nemo$380.5M#6Best second-weekend holds ($50M+ openers)Aquaman−23.2%#6Biggest original filmsFinding Nemo$380.5M#7Best multipliersFinding Nemo5.42x#8Biggest 10th weekendsPlatoon$8.2M#8Best second-weekend holds ($100M+ openers)Spider-Man−37.8%#12Best multipliersAquaman4.94x#13Most weekends in the top 10Platoon22 weekends#14Biggest May openingsSpider-Man$114.8M
Top 10 of 16 placings across 15 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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