Actor & Director
Denzel WashingtonFollow
39 films•3 as director•1984–2024•Drama · Crime · Action
Avg critics67%
Avg audience74%
Avg domestic$68.7M
Domestic
$2.68B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$4.70B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$18.4M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gladiator II | 2024 | $55.0M | $172.4M | 3.13x | $460.4M | B | 70% | — |
 American Gangster | 2007 | $43.6M | $130.0M | 2.99x | $270.0M | B+ | 81% | #19 |
 Safe House | 2012 | $40.2M | $126.0M | 3.15x | $208.0M | A- | 52% | #25 |
 Remember the Titans | 2000 | $20.9M | $116.0M | 5.53x | $137.0M | A+ | 72% | #17 |
 The Equalizer 2 | 2018 | $36.0M | $102.1M | 2.83x | $190.4M | A | 52% | #34 |
 The Equalizer | 2014 | $34.1M | $101.5M | 2.97x | $192.9M | A- | 61% | #31 |
 The Pelican Brief | 1993 | $16.9M | $100.8M | 6.00x | $188.0M | — | 56% | — |
 The Book of Eli | 2010 | $32.8M | $94.8M | 2.89x | $157.0M | B+ | 46% | #34 |
 Flight | 2012 | $24.9M | $93.8M | 3.77x | $162.0M | A- | 77% | #32 |
 The Magnificent Seven | 2016 | $33.3M | $93.4M | 2.80x | $203.6M | B+ | 49% | #32 |
 The Equalizer 3 | 2023 | $34.6M | $92.4M | 2.70x | $191.1M | A | 71% | #28 |
 Crimson Tide | 1995 | $18.6M | $91.4M | 4.90x | $159.4M | A | 89% | — |
 Inside Man | 2006 | $29.0M | $88.5M | 3.06x | $186.0M | B+ | 86% | #22 |
 Unstoppable | 2010 | $22.7M | $81.6M | 3.59x | $168.0M | A- | 87% | #41 |
 Man on Fire | 2004 | $22.8M | $77.9M | 3.42x | $131.0M | A- | 39% | #33 |
 Philadelphia | 1993 | — | $77.4M | — | $207.0M | — | 81% | — |
 Training Day | 2001 | $22.6M | $76.6M | 3.40x | $105.0M | B+ | 74% | #29 |
 2 Guns | 2013 | $27.1M | $75.6M | 2.79x | $132.0M | B+ | 64% | #45 |
 John Q | 2002 | $20.3M | $71.8M | 3.54x | $102.0M | A | 26% | #38 |
 The Bone Collector | 1999 | $16.7M | $66.5M | 4.00x | $151.5M | — | 30% | — |
 The Manchurian Candidate | 2004 | $20.0M | $66.0M | 3.29x | $96.1M | B+ | 79% | #44 |
 The Taking of Pelham 123 | 2009 | $23.4M | $65.5M | 2.80x | $150.0M | B+ | 51% | — |
 Deja Vu | 2006 | $20.6M | $64.0M | 3.11x | $181.0M | — | 55% | #42 |
 Courage Under Fire | 1996 | $12.5M | $59.0M | 4.70x | $100.8M | A | 86% | — |
 Fences | 2016 | $129K | $57.7M | 8.60x | $64.3M | A- | 92% | — |
 The Hurricane | 1999 | $385K | $50.7M | 7.80x | $74.0M | — | 82% | — |
 Malcolm X | 1992 | $9.9M | $48.2M | 4.90x | — | — | 89% | — |
 The Preacher's Wife | 1996 | $7.6M | $48.1M | 6.30x | $56.4M | — | 60% | — |
 Out of Time | 2003 | $16.2M | $41.1M | 2.50x | $55.5M | — | 65% | — |
 The Siege | 1998 | $13.9M | $40.9M | 2.90x | $116.6M | — | 44% | — |
 The Great Debaters | 2007 | $6.0M | $30.2M | 5.00x | — | — | 80% | — |
 Glory | 1989 | $3.0M | $26.8M | 8.90x | $26.8M | — | 95% | — |
 Fallen | 1998 | $9.1M | $25.3M | 2.80x | — | — | 43% | — |
 Virtuosity | 1995 | $8.3M | $24.0M | 2.90x | — | — | 28% | — |
 Much Ado About Nothing | 1993 | — | $22.5M | — | — | — | 90% | — |
 A Soldier's Story | 1984 | $156K | $22.1M | 10.3x | — | — | 91% | — |
 He Got Game | 1998 | $7.6M | $21.6M | 2.80x | $22.4M | — | 82% | — |
 Antwone Fisher | 2002 | $210K | $21.1M | 5.60x | $23.4M | — | 78% | — |
 The Little Things | 2021 | $4.7M | $15.3M | 3.30x | $30.8M | — | 44% | — |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.4x
$4.64B worldwide on $1.97B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $2.46BInternational $2.18B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven8.0x
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#2Biggest Labor Day openingsThe Equalizer 3$42.8M#8Biggest openings not at #1Gladiator II$55.0M#14Biggest January openingsThe Book of Eli$32.8M#16Biggest September openingsThe Magnificent Seven$34.7M#17Biggest September openingsThe Equalizer 3$34.6M#18Biggest September openingsThe Equalizer$34.1M
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 scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
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