Actor
Robert Downey Jr.Follow
31 films•1986–2023•Action · Comedy · Adventure
Avg critics67%
Avg audience73%
Avg domestic$196.0M
Domestic
$6.08B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$15.84B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$68.5M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | $357.1M | $897.6M | 2.50x | $2.94B | A+ | 94% | #1 |
 Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | $257.8M | $678.8M | 2.63x | $2.05B | A | 85% | #2 |
 The Avengers | 2012 | $207.0M | $623.4M | 3.01x | $1.52B | A+ | 91% | #1 |
 Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | $191.3M | $459.0M | 2.40x | $1.40B | A | 76% | #3 |
 Iron Man 3 | 2013 | $174.0M | $409.0M | 2.35x | $1.21B | A | 79% | #2 |
 Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | $179.1M | $408.1M | 2.28x | $1.15B | A | 91% | #3 |
 Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | $117.0M | $334.6M | 2.86x | $878.9M | A | 92% | #6 |
 Oppenheimer | 2023 | $82.5M | $330.1M | 4.00x | $983.1M | A | 92% | #5 |
 Iron Man | 2008 | $98.6M | $318.6M | 3.23x | $584.9M | A | 94% | #2 |
 Iron Man 2 | 2010 | $128.0M | $312.4M | 2.44x | $621.2M | A | 72% | #3 |
 Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | $62.3M | $209.0M | 3.35x | $524.0M | B | 70% | #10 |
 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 2011 | $39.6M | $187.0M | 4.71x | $544.0M | A- | 60% | #9 |
 Tropic Thunder | 2008 | $25.8M | $111.0M | 4.28x | $196.0M | B | 82% | #23 |
 Due Date | 2010 | $32.7M | $101.0M | 3.08x | $212.0M | B- | 39% | #29 |
 Back to School | 1986 | $8.9M | $91.3M | 10.3x | — | — | 81% | — |
 Dolittle | 2020 | $22.5M | $77.0M | 3.40x | $251.5M | B | 15% | #4 |
 Bowfinger | 1999 | $18.1M | $66.5M | 3.70x | $98.7M | B- | 83% | — |
 The Shaggy Dog | 2006 | $16.3M | $61.1M | 3.75x | $87.1M | B+ | 25% | #48 |
 Gothika | 2003 | $19.3M | $59.7M | 3.09x | $142.0M | B | 15% | — |
 U.S. Marshals | 1998 | $16.9M | $57.8M | 3.40x | $103.0M | A- | 31% | — |
 Natural Born Killers | 1994 | $11.2M | $50.3M | 4.50x | — | — | 52% | — |
 The Judge | 2014 | $13.1M | $47.1M | 3.60x | $76.1M | — | 49% | — |
 Zodiac | 2007 | $13.4M | $33.1M | 2.50x | $83.0M | — | 90% | — |
 The Soloist | 2009 | $9.7M | $31.9M | 3.30x | $38.5M | — | 56% | — |
 Good Night, and Good Luck | 2005 | $421K | $31.5M | 10.3x | $56.6M | — | 93% | — |
 Air America | 1990 | $8.1M | $30.5M | 3.80x | $32.9M | — | 12% | — |
 Only You | 1994 | $5.7M | $20.0M | 3.50x | — | — | 56% | — |
 Wonder Boys | 2000 | $5.8M | $19.4M | 3.30x | $33.4M | — | 81% | — |
 Chaplin | 1992 | $85K | $9.3M | 2.90x | — | — | 62% | — |
 A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | $392K | $5.5M | 4.30x | $7.4M | — | 68% | — |
 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | $181K | $4.2M | 5.40x | $16.8M | — | 86% | — |
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
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.2 years
Profitability
Return on budget
4.7x
$15.81B worldwide on $3.35B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $5.87BInternational $9.93B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven9.8x
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#1Biggest worldwide runsAvengers: Endgame$2.94B#1Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Endgame5 days#1Biggest April openingsAvengers: Endgame$357.1M#1Biggest May openingsThe Avengers$207.4M#1Biggest grossers never #1Oppenheimer$330.1M#2Biggest April openingsAvengers: Infinity War$257.7M#2Biggest May openingsAvengers: Age of Ultron$191.3M#2Biggest openings not at #1Oppenheimer$82.5M#3Fastest to $1B worldwideAvengers: Infinity War11 days#4Biggest opening weekendsAvengers: Infinity War$257.7M
Top 10 of 71 placings across 22 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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