Actor
Willem Dafoe
23 films•1986–2026•Drama · Comedy · Thriller
79%average critics78%average audience$80.7Mdomestic average
Films
23
1986–2026
Domestic
$1.86B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.48B
lifetime
Avg opening
$16.4M
3-day
Avg legs
5.95x
opening → total
Return
5.6x
on $805.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 23 films featuring Willem Dafoe, from Platoon (1986) to Werwulf (2026), together grossing $1.86B domestic and $4.48B worldwide. The biggest hit is Aquaman (2018) at $1.15B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Spider-Man (2002) at $115.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Werwulf | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | 0% | — |
 Kinds of Kindness | 2024 | $377K | $5.0M | 13.4x | $16.4M | — | 71% | — |
 Poor Things | 2023 | $2.1M | $34.6M | 16.3x | $117.6M | — | 92% | — |
 Nightmare Alley | 2021 | $2.8M | $11.3M | 4.00x | $39.6M | B | 80% | — |
 The Lighthouse | 2019 | $428K | $10.9M | 25.4x | $18.3M | — | 90% | — |
 Aquaman | 2018 | $67.9M | $335.1M | 4.94x | $1.15B | A- | 64% | #5 |
 The Florida Project | 2017 | $157K | $5.9M | 37.6x | $11.2M | — | 96% | — |
 John Wick | 2014 | $14.4M | $43.0M | 3.00x | $86.1M | B | 86% | — |
 The Fault in Our Stars | 2014 | $48.0M | $124.9M | 2.60x | $307.2M | A+ | 81% | #25 |
 The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | $800K | $59.1M | 6.90x | $163.0M | — | 92% | — |
 Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | $266K | $21.0M | 79.0x | $45.9M | — | 93% | — |
 Mr. Bean's Holiday | 2007 | $9.9M | $33.3M | 3.37x | $232.0M | B | 50% | — |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | $113K | $24.0M | 212.3x | $34.8M | — | 57% | — |
 Finding Nemo | 2003 | $70.3M | $340.0M | 4.84x | $871.0M | A+ | 99% | #2 |
 Spider-Man | 2002 | $115.0M | $404.0M | 3.52x | $805.0M | A- | 90% | #1 |
 The Boondock Saints | 1999 | $20K | $52K | — | $0.4M | — | 26% | — |
 Affliction | 1998 | $64K | $6.3M | — | — | — | 88% | — |
 The English Patient | 1996 | $278K | $78.7M | — | $231.7M | — | 86% | — |
 Wild at Heart | 1990 | $2.9M | $14.6M | 5.00x | — | — | 66% | — |
 Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | $11.0M | $70.0M | 6.40x | $161.0M | — | 84% | — |
 The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | $401K | $8.4M | 20.9x | $8.4M | — | 82% | — |
 Platoon | 1986 | $241K | $138.0M | 572.3x | — | — | 89% | — |
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 1.8 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.6x
$4.48B worldwide on $805.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.70BInternational $2.79B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven25.6x
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 →#4All-time G domesticFinding Nemo$339.7M#8Biggest 10th weekendsPlatoon$8.2M#10Best multipliersAquaman4.97x#13Best multipliersFinding Nemo4.84x#21Biggest 4th weekendsSpider-Man$28.5M#35Biggest worldwide runsAquaman$1.15B
6 placings across 5 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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