Actor
Octavia SpencerFollow
12 films•2006–2025•Drama · Biography · Comedy
Avg critics66%
Avg audience76%
Avg domestic$63.2M
Domestic
$758.7M
Lifetime
Worldwide
$1.31B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$12.1M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Help | 2011 | $26.0M | $170.0M | 6.52x | $217.0M | A+ | 75% | #13 |
 Hidden Figures | 2016 | $515K | $169.6M | 7.40x | $237.6M | A+ | 93% | #14 |
 Instant Family | 2018 | $14.5M | $67.4M | 1.92x | $119.7M | A | 82% | #49 |
 The Shape of Water | 2017 | $167K | $63.9M | 21.3x | $195.2M | e | 93% | #46 |
 Onward | 2020 | $40.0M | $61.6M | 1.50x | $142.0M | A- | 88% | #7 |
 The Shack | 2017 | $12.4M | $57.4M | 4.63x | $98.0M | A | 26% | #49 |
 Ma | 2019 | $18.1M | $45.9M | 2.50x | $61.2M | — | 55% | — |
 Smurfs | 2025 | $11.1M | $31.1M | 2.80x | $120.6M | B+ | 21% | — |
 Get on Up | 2014 | $13.6M | $30.6M | 2.30x | $33.3M | — | 80% | — |
 Gifted | 2017 | $446K | $24.8M | 8.00x | $37.0M | — | 73% | — |
 Pulse | 2006 | $8.2M | $20.3M | 2.50x | $30.2M | — | 11% | — |
 Fruitvale Station | 2013 | $377K | $16.1M | 3.50x | $17.5M | — | 94% | — |
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$100M$200M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.7 years
Profitability
Return on budget
3.0x
$1.31B worldwide on $433.9M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $758.7MInternational $550.6M
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven19.4x
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 records1 placing across 1 all-time chart. 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.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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