Actor & Director
Ben StillerFollow
29 films•6 as director•1994–2025•Comedy · Adventure · Romance
Avg critics56%
Avg audience58%
Avg domestic$105.4M
Domestic
$2.95B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$6.73B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$25.0M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Meet the Fockers | 2004 | $46.1M | $279.2M | 6.06x | $516.6M | B+ | 38% | #4 |
 Night at the Museum | 2006 | $30.4M | $250.9M | 8.25x | $579.4M | A- | 42% | #2 |
 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | 2012 | $60.3M | $216.4M | 3.59x | $746.9M | A | 78% | #10 |
 Madagascar | 2005 | $47.2M | $194.3M | 4.12x | $557.3M | A- | 55% | #9 |
 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | 2008 | $63.1M | $180.2M | 2.86x | $599.7M | A- | 64% | #8 |
 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | 2009 | $54.2M | $177.2M | 3.27x | $402.2M | B+ | 43% | #14 |
 There's Something About Mary | 1998 | $13.7M | $176.5M | 12.8x | $369.9M | — | 84% | — |
 Meet the Parents | 2000 | $28.6M | $166.2M | 5.81x | $330.4M | A- | 85% | #7 |
 Little Fockers | 2010 | $30.8M | $148.4M | 4.82x | $310.7M | B- | 10% | #16 |
 Megamind | 2010 | $46.0M | $148.0M | 3.23x | $322.0M | A- | 73% | #17 |
 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | $30.1M | $114.0M | 3.80x | $168.0M | B+ | 72% | #19 |
 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | 2014 | $17.1M | $113.7M | 6.66x | $353.8M | A | 49% | #27 |
 Tropic Thunder | 2008 | $25.8M | $111.0M | 4.28x | $196.0M | B | 82% | #23 |
 Starsky & Hutch | 2004 | $28.1M | $88.2M | 3.14x | $170.0M | A | 63% | #25 |
 Along Came Polly | 2004 | $27.7M | $88.1M | 3.18x | $178.0M | B | 27% | #26 |
 Tower Heist | 2011 | $24.0M | $78.0M | 3.25x | $153.0M | B | 67% | #42 |
 The Cable Guy | 1996 | $19.8M | $60.2M | 3.00x | $102.8M | — | 56% | — |
 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | 2013 | $12.8M | $58.2M | 4.56x | $188.0M | B+ | 52% | — |
 The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | $8.5M | $52.4M | 6.20x | $71.4M | A | 81% | #48 |
 Zoolander | 2001 | $15.5M | $45.2M | 2.90x | $60.8M | — | 64% | — |
 Keeping the Faith | 2000 | $8.1M | $37.0M | 4.60x | $45.3M | — | 68% | — |
 The Heartbreak Kid | 2007 | $14.0M | $36.8M | 2.62x | $128.0M | C- | 29% | — |
 The Watch | 2012 | $12.8M | $34.4M | 2.70x | $67.1M | — | 16% | — |
 Mystery Men | 1999 | $10.0M | $29.8M | 3.00x | $33.5M | — | 59% | — |
 Zoolander 2 | 2016 | $13.8M | $28.8M | 2.10x | $55.3M | — | 21% | — |
 Reality Bites | 1994 | $6.0M | $20.1M | 3.30x | — | B+ | 62% | — |
 Duplex | 2003 | $4.3M | $9.7M | 2.20x | $10.1M | — | 36% | — |
 While We're Young | 2014 | $228K | $7.6M | 5.30x | $17.5M | — | 84% | — |
 Happy Gilmore 2 | 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | 61% | — |
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$250M$500M$750M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.5x
$6.73B worldwide on $1.93B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.93BInternational $3.80B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven16.8x
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#4Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Night at the Museum+20.8%#8Biggest Christmas openingsMeet the Fockers$46.1M#16Biggest Christmas openingsLittle Fockers$30.8M#18Biggest Christmas openingsNight at the Museum$30.4M#19Biggest 8th weekendsThere's Something About Mary$8.8M#20Biggest openings not at #1Madagascar$47.2M
6 placings across 4 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleConnected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.