Who were the Top Box Office Stars of the 1990s statistically? This page will attempt to answer that question. Our main source of information was our Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) pages that covered movie stars that made movies in the 1990s. So far we have box office grosses on 6,125 movies made between 1990 and 1999. Granted this is far from all the movies made during that time frame….but it does cover most of the major movie releases in that decade.
We have included four lists of information. List one looks at the Top 15 stars by adjusted domestic box office. List two looks at the Top 15 stars by highest average rating per movie according to critics and audiences. List three looks at the Top 15 Stars by highest average UMR score per movie. List four shows our entire table of all the stars we looked at while complying these lists.
Top 15 Adjusted Domestic Box Office Leaders 1990 – 1999
- Samuel L. Jackson $3,459.40 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Tom Hanks $3,414.50 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Bruce Willis $2,706.30 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Robin Williams $2,686.90 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Bill Paxton $2,616.60 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Whoopi Goldberg $2,507.30 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Julia Roberts $2,413.90 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Tommy Lee Jones $2,395.80 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Jeff Goldblum $2,252.20 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Mel Gibson $2,103.90 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Joe Pesci $2,069.60 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Jim Carrey $1,958.00 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Arnold Schwarzenegger $1,927.70 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Gene Hackman $1,913.00 million in adjusted domestic gross
- Tom Cruise $1,880.40 million in adjusted domestic gross
Top 15 Average Critic/Audience Rating Leaders 1990 – 1999 (minimum 9 movies)
- Tom Hanks 76.0 % critic and audience voting
- Al Pacino 74.1 % critic and audience voting
- Matt Damon 73.7 % critic and audience voting
- Anjelica Huston 73.0 % critic and audience voting
- Ben Kingsley 71.8 % critic and audience voting
- Robert DeNiro 71.4 % critic and audience voting
- Johnny Depp 70.8 % critic and audience voting
- Kevin Spacey 70.3 % critic and audience voting
- Paul Giamatti 69.6 % critic and audience voting
- Harvey Keitel 69.3 % critic and audience voting
- Tom Cruise 69.0 % critic and audience voting
- Sean Penn 68.8 % critic and audience voting
- Meryl Streep 68.2 % critic and audience voting
- Susan Sarandon 67.9 % critic and audience voting
- Holly Hunter 67.5 % critic and audience voting
Top 15 Average UMR Score (combo of box office, reviews & awards) Per Movie 1990-1999
- Tom Hanks 65.85
- Tom Cruise 59.99
- Jim Carrey 54.58
- Matt Damon 53.01
- Mel Gibson 51.13
- Harrison Ford 52.00
- Al Pacino 51.37
- Arnold Schwarzenegger 49.40
- Tommy Lee Jones 46.99
- Kevin Spacey 46.51
- Pierce Brosnan 46.13
- Gene Hackman 46.03
- Morgan Freeman 45.95
- Kevin Costner 45.91
- Robin Williams 45.84
Top Movie Stars 1990-1999 Main Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by actor or actress
- Sort by movies made between 1990 and 1999
- Sort by average adjusted domestic box office per movie
- Sort by total adjusted domestic box office from 1990 to 1999
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each performers’ movies earned
- Sort by average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| Rank | UMR Co-Star Links | Movies | AVG B.O. (mil) | B.O. 1990s (mil) | AVG Review | Oscar Noms / Wins | AVG UMR Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel L. Jackson | 42 | $ 82.4 | $3459.4 | 63.2 % | 023 / 06 | 38.48 | |
| Tom Hanks | 13 | $ 262.7 | $3414.5 | 76.0 % | 049 / 15 | 65.85 | |
| Bruce Willis | 25 | $ 108.3 | $2706.3 | 54.0 % | 023 / 02 | 39.15 | |
| Robin Williams | 21 | $ 127.9 | $2686.9 | 56.8 % | 035 / 05 | 45.84 | |
| Bill Paxton | 20 | $ 130.8 | $2616.6 | 62.1 % | 026 / 13 | 39.05 | |
| Whoopi Goldberg | 22 | $ 114.0 | $2507.3 | 60.3 % | 015 / 05 | 40.73 | |
| Julia Roberts | 17 | $ 142.0 | $2413.9 | 55.3 % | 008 / 00 | 45.64 | |
| Tommy Lee Jones | 17 | $ 140.9 | $2395.8 | 60.7 % | 025 / 05 | 46.99 | |
| Jeff Goldblum | 12 | $ 187.7 | $2252.2 | 53.5 % | 008 / 05 | 39.91 | |
| Mel Gibson | 13 | $ 161.8 | $2103.9 | 62.0 % | 015 / 07 | 52.52 | |
| Joe Pesci | 16 | $ 129.4 | $2069.6 | 66.8 % | 016 / 04 | 45.35 | |
| Jim Carrey | 9 | $ 217.6 | $1958.0 | 64.7 % | 007 / 00 | 57.92 | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | 10 | $ 192.8 | $1927.7 | 53.5 % | 010 / 04 | 49.40 | |
| Gene Hackman | 19 | $ 100.7 | $1913.0 | 66.0 % | 019 / 04 | 46.03 | |
| Tom Cruise | 9 | $ 208.9 | $1880.4 | 69.0 % | 017 / 01 | 59.99 | |
| James Earl Jones | 15 | $ 118.7 | $1779.8 | 66.3 % | 009 / 03 | 42.78 | |
| Harrison Ford | 10 | $ 174.1 | $1740.8 | 62.3 % | 013 / 01 | 52.00 | |
| Kevin Costner | 13 | $ 132.4 | $1721.4 | 58.1 % | 025 / 09 | 45.91 | |
| Will Smith | 8 | $ 208.4 | $1667.2 | 60.6 % | 006 / 02 | 48.52 | |
| Demi Moore | 14 | $ 118.7 | $1661.6 | 53.0 % | 011 / 02 | 40.26 | |
| John Travolta | 16 | $ 103.6 | $1657.2 | 58.8 % | 017 / 01 | 44.04 | |
| Ed Harris | 15 | $ 109.6 | $1643.7 | 65.8 % | 019 / 02 | 45.68 | |
| John Heard | 11 | $ 144.4 | $1588.7 | 64.9 % | 008 / 00 | 44.60 | |
| Pierce Brosnan | 11 | $ 144.3 | $1587.5 | 60.2 % | 003 / 01 | 46.13 | |
| Robert DeNiro | 24 | $ 66.1 | $1585.5 | 71.4 % | 019 / 01 | 44.02 | |
| Julianne Moore | 23 | $ 67.4 | $1551.3 | 61.6 % | 018 / 01 | 38.12 | |
| Danny DeVito | 17 | $ 91.1 | $1549.4 | 60.8 % | 014 / 02 | 41.45 | |
| Eddie Murphy | 12 | $ 128.6 | $1543.6 | 46.1 % | 003 / 01 | 40.31 | |
| Cary Elwes | 10 | $ 149.9 | $1498.6 | 60.1 % | 005 / 03 | 45.79 | |
| Kevin Spacey | 18 | $ 82.9 | $1492.4 | 70.3 % | 022 / 07 | 46.51 | |
| Morgan Freeman | 13 | $ 114.3 | $1485.4 | 60.8 % | 022 / 04 | 45.95 | |
| Liam Neeson | 16 | $ 92.1 | $1472.8 | 61.6 % | 019 / 07 | 38.67 | |
| Daniel Stern | 10 | $ 146.9 | $1469.0 | 53.9 % | 001 / 01 | 39.52 | |
| Sam Neill | 10 | $ 145.3 | $1452.8 | 64.7 % | 018 / 09 | 44.92 | |
| Sally Field | 7 | $ 204.2 | $1429.2 | 64.6 % | 014 / 07 | 47.64 | |
| Denzel Washington | 18 | $ 78.8 | $1417.9 | 65.9 % | 012 / 02 | 44.07 | |
| Harvey Keitel | 24 | $ 59.0 | $1415.9 | 69.3 % | 031 / 07 | 41.14 | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 10 | $ 139.8 | $1397.9 | 64.7 % | 017 / 11 | 39.76 | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | 18 | $ 77.0 | $1385.9 | 67.1 % | 018 / 01 | 41.12 | |
| Kevin Bacon | 16 | $ 86.4 | $1382.8 | 65.2 % | 023 / 04 | 43.00 | |
| Glenn Close | 13 | $ 105.7 | $1373.9 | 64.5 % | 014 / 02 | 43.44 | |
| Nicolas Cage | 18 | $ 76.2 | $1370.7 | 57.8 % | 008 / 01 | 39.28 | |
| Tim Allen | 6 | $ 228.0 | $1368.1 | 75.7 % | 004 / 00 | 57.31 | |
| Meg Ryan | 15 | $ 89.6 | $1343.3 | 63.5 % | 006 / 02 | 43.55 | |
| Danny Glover | 17 | $ 78.9 | $1340.9 | 61.4 % | 004 / 01 | 39.53 | |
| Macaulay Culkin | 9 | $ 147.4 | $1326.3 | 57.6 % | 000 / 00 | 40.40 | |
| Paul Giamatti | 15 | $ 87.8 | $1317.5 | 69.6 % | 021 / 06 | 44.71 | |
| Brad Pitt | 16 | $ 81.0 | $1296.2 | 66.2 % | 019 / 03 | 44.72 | |
| Christopher Walken | 22 | $ 58.7 | $1292.2 | 60.3 % | 012 / 02 | 36.23 | |
| Wesley Snipes | 21 | $ 61.4 | $1290.3 | 56.1 % | 000 / 00 | 35.27 | |
| Michelle Pfeiffer | 15 | $ 85.0 | $1274.3 | 62.2 % | 011 / 02 | 41.92 | |
| Keanu Reeves | 17 | $ 74.5 | $1267.0 | 59.5 % | 011 / 09 | 38.93 | |
| Anthony Hopkins | 22 | $ 57.6 | $1266.8 | 62.9 % | 047 / 12 | 40.94 | |
| Sandra Bullock | 14 | $ 89.5 | $1252.8 | 50.5 % | 003 / 02 | 37.42 | |
| Val Kilmer | 13 | $ 95.7 | $1243.5 | 63.2 % | 006 / 02 | 41.17 | |
| Sean Connery | 13 | $ 95.3 | $1239.1 | 51.8 % | 005 / 01 | 37.93 | |
| Kate Winslet | 8 | $ 154.3 | $1234.2 | 73.9 % | 026 / 12 | 42.63 | |
| Richard Gere | 12 | $ 100.7 | $1208.7 | 57.5 % | 002 / 00 | 39.80 | |
| Garry Marshall | 10 | $ 119.3 | $1193.0 | 57.3 % | 005 / 00 | 42.39 | |
| Christian Slater | 18 | $ 65.9 | $1185.6 | 58.4 % | 006 / 00 | 36.83 | |
| Robert Duvall | 20 | $ 58.7 | $1173.4 | 59.4 % | 010 / 01 | 37.38 | |
| Sharon Stone | 19 | $ 61.1 | $1160.3 | 56.7 % | 005 / 00 | 35.31 | |
| Jeremy Irons | 12 | $ 96.0 | $1151.8 | 65.6 % | 008 / 03 | 39.67 | |
| Al Pacino | 13 | $ 88.5 | $1150.5 | 74.1 % | 026 / 04 | 51.37 | |
| James Woods | 19 | $ 60.5 | $1149.1 | 58.3 % | 012 / 00 | 37.09 | |
| Matt Damon | 9 | $ 126.2 | $1135.8 | 73.7 % | 026 / 07 | 53.01 | |
| Nicole Kidman | 12 | $ 94.1 | $1128.9 | 56.6 % | 006 / 00 | 39.93 | |
| Gary Oldman | 17 | $ 65.8 | $1118.5 | 67.4 % | 019 / 05 | 41.23 | |
| John Candy | 11 | $ 101.3 | $1114.4 | 52.9 % | 008 / 02 | 36.03 | |
| Steve Martin | 13 | $ 83.4 | $1084.6 | 58.7 % | 003 / 01 | 40.67 | |
| Christina Ricci | 15 | $ 70.5 | $1056.9 | 62.1 % | 005 / 01 | 38.19 | |
| Drew Barrymore | 13 | $ 81.2 | $1056.2 | 60.3 % | 003 / 00 | 38.68 | |
| Michael J. Fox | 14 | $ 75.4 | $1055.9 | 61.0 % | 002 / 00 | 39.94 | |
| James Coburn | 10 | $ 103.5 | $1035.4 | 48.5 % | 006 / 02 | 39.11 | |
| Ben Affleck | 13 | $ 79.2 | $1030.1 | 62.0 % | 026 / 09 | 40.68 | |
| Sylvester Stallone | 11 | $ 93.5 | $1028.7 | 47.4 % | 004 / 00 | 36.39 | |
| Cameron Diaz | 11 | $ 92.1 | $1013.4 | 61.8 % | 005 / 00 | 40.93 | |
| Donald Sutherland | 18 | $ 55.9 | $1006.9 | 57.5 % | 012 / 02 | 36.16 | |
| Kevin Kline | 15 | $ 67.1 | $1006.7 | 62.2 % | 006 / 00 | 39.52 | |
| Woody Harrelson | 16 | $ 61.9 | $990.2 | 58.0 % | 009 / 00 | 37.53 | |
| Jodie Foster | 8 | $ 122.3 | $978.3 | 67.9 % | 012 / 05 | 53.12 | |
| Alec Baldwin | 17 | $ 56.1 | $953.3 | 59.1 % | 006 / 01 | 36.15 | |
| Dustin Hoffman | 11 | $ 85.5 | $940.0 | 57.8 % | 013 / 03 | 41.14 | |
| Michael Douglas | 8 | $ 117.3 | $938.3 | 64.9 % | 004 / 01 | 48.63 | |
| Christopher Lloyd | 14 | $ 66.3 | $928.4 | 52.4 % | 004 / 00 | 33.18 | |
| Adam Sandler | 8 | $ 112.2 | $897.7 | 47.4 % | 000 / 00 | 36.72 | |
| Halle Berry | 14 | $ 63.7 | $891.5 | 47.2 % | 001 / 00 | 31.36 | |
| Holly Hunter | 10 | $ 89.0 | $889.7 | 67.5 % | 012 / 03 | 44.00 | |
| Jack Nicholson | 10 | $ 87.2 | $871.7 | 61.1 % | 013 / 02 | 42.25 | |
| Laurence Fishburne | 13 | $ 66.2 | $860.8 | 65.9 % | 009 / 04 | 40.62 | |
| Ewan McGregor | 12 | $ 71.6 | $858.6 | 63.8 % | 008 / 01 | 35.09 | |
| Gabriel Byrne | 20 | $ 42.7 | $854.5 | 59.2 % | 006 / 00 | 34.66 | |
| Annette Bening | 12 | $ 70.8 | $849.9 | 66.3 % | 027 / 07 | 44.82 | |
| Helen Hunt | 7 | $ 120.5 | $843.8 | 65.8 % | 008 / 02 | 39.86 | |
| Natalie Portman | 4 | $ 210.0 | $839.8 | 69.6 % | 003 / 00 | 45.02 | |
| Michael Keaton | 11 | $ 76.1 | $837.4 | 55.5 % | 004 / 00 | 36.25 | |
| Dan Aykroyd | 20 | $ 40.7 | $813.0 | 50.2 % | 003 / 00 | 29.68 | |
| Kurt Russell | 8 | $ 101.2 | $809.8 | 65.3 % | 003 / 00 | 46.64 | |
| John Goodman | 17 | $ 47.2 | $802.4 | 59.6 % | 003 / 00 | 34.91 | |
| Susan Sarandon | 14 | $ 57.1 | $799.4 | 67.9 % | 017 / 02 | 43.06 | |
| Diane Keaton | 11 | $ 72.6 | $798.7 | 60.0 % | 010 / 00 | 39.76 | |
| Tim Burton | 6 | $ 132.9 | $797.5 | 75.2 % | 009 / 03 | 53.68 | |
| James Caan | 12 | $ 66.4 | $796.6 | 57.9 % | 010 / 04 | 38.15 | |
| Winona Ryder | 15 | $ 52.9 | $793.8 | 67.3 % | 016 / 05 | 40.46 | |
| Steven Seagal | 9 | $ 87.6 | $788.5 | 46.7 % | 002 / 00 | 35.37 | |
| Bridget Fonda | 18 | $ 43.6 | $784.1 | 63.2 % | 010 / 00 | 36.79 | |
| Clint Eastwood | 8 | $ 97.9 | $783.2 | 68.9 % | 013 / 04 | 49.50 | |
| John Malkovich | 17 | $ 45.3 | $769.7 | 62.0 % | 010 / 00 | 36.67 | |
| Nick Nolte | 19 | $ 40.4 | $767.1 | 58.3 % | 021 / 01 | 34.93 | |
| Ben Kingsley | 11 | $ 69.6 | $765.8 | 71.8 % | 024 / 09 | 45.71 | |
| Owen Wilson | 7 | $ 107.8 | $754.3 | 52.9 % | 004 / 00 | 38.54 | |
| Keira Knightley | 1 | $ 748.2 | $748.2 | 62.7 % | 003 / 00 | 61.65 | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | 12 | $ 61.9 | $743.0 | 55.9 % | 001 / 00 | 34.86 | |
| Matthew McConaughey | 13 | $ 57.1 | $742.2 | 58.0 % | 006 / 00 | 36.25 | |
| Charlie Sheen | 17 | $ 43.2 | $735.1 | 46.4 % | 003 / 00 | 28.70 | |
| Ben Stiller | 13 | $ 55.4 | $720.7 | 58.0 % | 000 / 00 | 35.30 | |
| Brendan Fraser | 15 | $ 47.7 | $716.0 | 52.0 % | 003 / 01 | 30.76 | |
| Hugh Grant | 13 | $ 55.0 | $715.3 | 66.1 % | 019 / 03 | 41.62 | |
| Goldie Hawn | 8 | $ 88.8 | $710.1 | 53.8 % | 002 / 01 | 38.48 | |
| Billy Crystal | 9 | $ 78.2 | $703.6 | 60.6 % | 007 / 01 | 39.72 | |
| Charlton Heston | 7 | $ 98.6 | $690.1 | 63.9 % | 005 / 00 | 43.43 | |
| Bill Murray | 12 | $ 57.3 | $688.1 | 66.7 % | 002 / 02 | 40.65 | |
| Patrick Swayze | 8 | $ 85.1 | $680.6 | 60.2 % | 005 / 02 | 37.15 | |
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | 15 | $ 45.0 | $674.6 | 44.0 % | 000 / 00 | 27.52 | |
| Ted Danson | 7 | $ 95.7 | $670.1 | 57.7 % | 011 / 05 | 34.98 | |
| Walter Matthau | 9 | $ 74.4 | $669.8 | 54.0 % | 008 / 02 | 37.24 | |
| Richard Dreyfuss | 13 | $ 51.3 | $666.9 | 61.2 % | 005 / 00 | 37.46 | |
| Andie MacDowell | 14 | $ 47.2 | $661.0 | 59.7 % | 005 / 00 | 35.72 | |
| Billy Bob Thornton | 11 | $ 59.6 | $656.0 | 66.0 % | 009 / 01 | 39.49 | |
| Dennis Quaid | 14 | $ 46.3 | $648.1 | 58.8 % | 004 / 00 | 35.02 | |
| George Clooney | 8 | $ 80.5 | $644.1 | 59.3 % | 010 / 00 | 41.24 | |
| John Lithgow | 11 | $ 58.2 | $640.4 | 57.0 % | 005 / 00 | 36.63 | |
| Willem Dafoe | 17 | $ 37.5 | $637.9 | 58.9 % | 018 / 10 | 32.92 | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | 18 | $ 35.4 | $637.9 | 56.4 % | 008 / 02 | 32.60 | |
| John Cusack | 15 | $ 41.9 | $628.4 | 66.0 % | 025 / 01 | 38.40 | |
| Matt Dillon | 13 | $ 48.3 | $628.1 | 66.1 % | 001 / 00 | 36.78 | |
| Christopher Plummer | 8 | $ 76.8 | $614.4 | 72.6 % | 013 / 00 | 46.87 | |
| Raul Julia | 5 | $ 122.2 | $611.1 | 52.9 % | 002 / 00 | 39.07 | |
| Rob Reiner | 6 | $ 101.8 | $610.9 | 62.4 % | 008 / 01 | 45.06 | |
| Ice Cube | 12 | $ 50.4 | $604.2 | 60.3 % | 002 / 00 | 35.35 | |
| Johnny Depp | 14 | $ 43.0 | $602.4 | 70.8 % | 009 / 03 | 40.39 | |
| Jack Lemmon | 11 | $ 54.3 | $597.1 | 67.4 % | 013 / 02 | 37.91 | |
| Donald Trump | 8 | $ 73.8 | $590.7 | 43.9 % | 000 / 00 | 29.29 | |
| Meryl Streep | 11 | $ 53.6 | $589.4 | 68.2 % | 008 / 01 | 42.98 | |
| Oliver Stone | 8 | $ 73.2 | $585.8 | 66.0 % | 017 / 03 | 45.65 | |
| Dennis Hopper | 13 | $ 44.3 | $575.9 | 62.4 % | 004 / 02 | 35.40 | |
| Robert Redford | 5 | $ 114.6 | $572.9 | 54.7 % | 003 / 00 | 43.72 | |
| William Hurt | 15 | $ 37.0 | $554.4 | 65.4 % | 002 / 00 | 36.30 | |
| Sigourney Weaver | 10 | $ 55.4 | $554.2 | 66.3 % | 001 / 00 | 39.79 | |
| Jay Mohr | 9 | $ 60.9 | $547.8 | 58.7 % | 005 / 01 | 36.23 | |
| Bette Midler | 7 | $ 78.1 | $547.0 | 60.8 % | 002 / 00 | 41.07 | |
| Vince Vaughn | 8 | $ 66.6 | $532.6 | 60.4 % | 001 / 00 | 34.54 | |
| Anjelica Huston | 10 | $ 52.7 | $527.2 | 73.0 % | 006 / 00 | 38.55 | |
| Emilio Estevez | 10 | $ 52.0 | $520.0 | 40.9 % | 001 / 00 | 27.42 | |
| Daryl Hannah | 10 | $ 51.2 | $512.1 | 52.1 % | 000 / 00 | 33.38 | |
| Walter Lemmon | 6 | $ 85.2 | $510.9 | 59.7 % | 008 / 02 | 40.66 | |
| Anne Bancroft | 6 | $ 83.2 | $499.1 | 65.7 % | 000 / 00 | 42.98 | |
| Rick Moranis | 6 | $ 81.1 | $486.3 | 49.3 % | 000 / 00 | 33.80 | |
| Ally Sheedy | 8 | $ 58.9 | $470.9 | 50.9 % | 000 / 00 | 30.75 | |
| Rob Lowe | 6 | $ 76.3 | $458.0 | 61.4 % | 001 / 00 | 40.30 | |
| Michael Biehn | 6 | $ 74.4 | $446.2 | 51.3 % | 001 / 00 | 33.54 | |
| Melanie Griffith | 14 | $ 31.6 | $442.5 | 57.2 % | 002 / 00 | 32.05 | |
| Christian Bale | 10 | $ 43.1 | $431.0 | 63.0 % | 008 / 02 | 35.36 | |
| Vin Diesel | 2 | $ 213.9 | $427.8 | 88.0 % | 011 / 05 | 65.06 | |
| Charlize Theron | 8 | $ 52.7 | $421.2 | 58.9 % | 008 / 02 | 36.37 | |
| Jeff Bridges | 14 | $ 30.1 | $420.9 | 61.4 % | 010 / 01 | 34.45 | |
| James Garner | 5 | $ 83.0 | $415.0 | 55.1 % | 001 / 00 | 38.32 | |
| Ann-Margret | 4 | $ 103.3 | $413.0 | 58.0 % | 000 / 00 | 42.69 | |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 6 | $ 66.6 | $399.4 | 52.2 % | 003 / 01 | 35.15 | |
| Kim Basinger | 8 | $ 49.8 | $398.3 | 54.6 % | 009 / 02 | 34.27 | |
| Warren Beatty | 4 | $ 97.6 | $390.5 | 63.4 % | 018 / 05 | 49.21 | |
| Tom Selleck | 8 | $ 48.5 | $388.2 | 43.4 % | 001 / 00 | 29.86 | |
| Paul Rudd | 6 | $ 64.5 | $387.2 | 58.4 % | 008 / 02 | 38.08 | |
| Jack Palance | 4 | $ 95.6 | $382.2 | 54.0 % | 001 / 01 | 41.80 | |
| Anthony Quinn | 8 | $ 47.4 | $379.2 | 49.4 % | 000 / 00 | 30.58 | |
| Frances McDormand | 13 | $ 28.5 | $370.0 | 64.2 % | 010 / 02 | 35.97 | |
| Bruce Dern | 7 | $ 50.5 | $353.8 | 52.0 % | 000 / 00 | 32.36 | |
| Sean Penn | 12 | $ 29.0 | $347.5 | 68.8 % | 013 / 01 | 38.61 | |
| Jamie Foxx | 7 | $ 48.7 | $340.9 | 49.6 % | 002 / 00 | 31.44 | |
| Mark Wahlberg | 8 | $ 39.9 | $318.9 | 61.4 % | 003 / 00 | 35.33 | |
| Jessica Lange | 10 | $ 31.1 | $310.5 | 64.9 % | 005 / 01 | 36.33 | |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | 5 | $ 61.8 | $309.0 | 61.8 % | 001 / 01 | 37.45 | |
| Mel Brooks | 5 | $ 61.0 | $304.8 | 50.1 % | 000 / 00 | 33.00 | |
| Lauren Bacall | 6 | $ 49.4 | $296.2 | 54.2 % | 003 / 01 | 34.62 | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 5 | $ 59.0 | $295.2 | 78.0 % | 015 / 03 | 49.61 | |
| Scarlett Johansson | 7 | $ 40.6 | $284.1 | 47.4 % | 001 / 00 | 28.74 | |
| Michael Caine | 8 | $ 35.4 | $283.3 | 63.4 % | 008 / 02 | 37.38 | |
| Woody Allen | 8 | $ 35.4 | $283.0 | 73.0 % | 005 / 01 | 40.26 | |
| Burt Reynolds | 9 | $ 31.4 | $282.7 | 49.8 % | 003 / 00 | 29.73 | |
| Edward Norton | 6 | $ 46.6 | $279.3 | 77.7 % | 004 / 00 | 46.42 | |
| Tom Berenger | 12 | $ 23.1 | $277.6 | 59.2 % | 001 / 00 | 31.87 | |
| Robert Mitchum | 3 | $ 91.8 | $275.5 | 75.6 % | 002 / 00 | 50.24 | |
| Chevy Chase | 7 | $ 38.8 | $271.9 | 46.0 % | 000 / 00 | 27.70 | |
| Reese Witherspoon | 11 | $ 24.7 | $271.5 | 61.5 % | 004 / 00 | 32.27 | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1 | $ 269.7 | $269.7 | 34.5 % | 000 / 00 | 47.22 | |
| Russell Crowe | 13 | $ 20.7 | $268.9 | 64.5 % | 016 / 02 | 34.12 | |
| Martin Sheen | 9 | $ 29.6 | $266.6 | 55.3 % | 001 / 00 | 30.69 | |
| Milla Jovovich | 7 | $ 37.7 | $263.9 | 60.8 % | 004 / 00 | 34.84 | |
| Steve Guttenberg | 5 | $ 52.4 | $262.1 | 51.7 % | 000 / 00 | 27.86 | |
| Faye Dunaway | 10 | $ 25.6 | $255.6 | 53.4 % | 001 / 00 | 29.11 | |
| Sidney Poitier | 3 | $ 84.9 | $254.6 | 47.5 % | 000 / 00 | 35.81 | |
| Alan Alda | 9 | $ 27.9 | $251.2 | 61.4 % | 000 / 00 | 32.88 | |
| Cate Blanchett | 6 | $ 40.3 | $241.5 | 68.4 % | 013 / 01 | 41.08 | |
| Barbra Streisand | 2 | $ 114.1 | $228.2 | 62.8 % | 009 / 00 | 50.76 | |
| Carrie Fisher | 5 | $ 44.1 | $220.3 | 53.7 % | 002 / 00 | 32.23 | |
| George C. Scott | 5 | $ 43.7 | $218.5 | 56.1 % | 000 / 00 | 33.47 | |
| Paul Newman | 5 | $ 43.6 | $217.9 | 66.6 % | 003 / 00 | 38.72 | |
| Shirley MacLaine | 7 | $ 30.9 | $216.1 | 55.8 % | 002 / 00 | 31.84 | |
| Gregory Peck | 2 | $ 104.9 | $209.8 | 61.0 % | 002 / 00 | 45.81 | |
| Jennifer Aniston | 8 | $ 26.1 | $208.9 | 55.8 % | 000 / 00 | 30.47 | |
| Angelina Jolie | 8 | $ 25.4 | $203.0 | 49.6 % | 001 / 01 | 28.75 | |
| Don Ameche | 4 | $ 46.7 | $186.6 | 53.3 % | 000 / 00 | 32.45 | |
| Debra Winger | 7 | $ 24.9 | $174.4 | 61.1 % | 002 / 00 | 33.19 | |
| Debbie Reynolds | 3 | $ 55.2 | $165.7 | 66.5 % | 001 / 00 | 40.36 | |
| Andrew McCarthy | 8 | $ 20.6 | $164.4 | 59.9 % | 000 / 00 | 31.58 | |
| Sophia Loren | 2 | $ 81.0 | $161.9 | 39.7 % | 000 / 00 | 31.11 | |
| Ernest Borgnine | 6 | $ 26.8 | $160.8 | 56.3 % | 001 / 00 | 30.69 | |
| Marlon Brando | 4 | $ 39.6 | $158.2 | 46.3 % | 001 / 00 | 29.10 |
The return of Walter Lemmon at #156, can’t recall anything he’s been in. I know it’s not Jack Lemmon because he’s 142, maybe Walter Matthau perhaps.
Hey Dan….actually Walter is in 126th spot…with Lemmon in 142nd…..the Walter Lemmon is the name assigned to the 6 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau co-starring movies of the 1990s….at first I thought I should take it out….but for some reason I kinda of like them having an extra spot…lol. Good eye on spotting it…..that is one seriously long table. Thanks for the feedback.
1 The top 15 Box Office table contains almost all of the 1990s great stars whom I expected to be there such as Cruise, Hanks, Arnie, Willis, Jim Carrey, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. I was slightly surprised that Harrison at No 17 in the main table did not make the 15 cut and I was SHOCKED at Sly’s low placing at No 76. Also I had thought Travolta would be higher The ex Mrs Willis does well at No 20, indeed being the 3rd highest ranked female in the entire main table. She and her other half could be said to be a husband and wife box office powerhouse team in the 1990s though of course Willis had more stand-alone success than Demi.
2 I see that finally his practice of hardly working caught up with Mr Mumbles who is in last place in the main table at No 218, though Brucie may have gone that low just to rub my nose in it because he knows that had Loy been in such a humble slot I would have plastered it all over this site! In the past Mumbles has often gotten away with a low film count because the movies in which he did appear had fine, at times even magnificent, box office averages. But he did not have even that consolation here with an abysmal average of almost $40 million over 4 movies. Still for someone who was a high flyer way back in the 1950s to be still getting any kind of a mention half a century later could be said to be some sort of feather in his cap albeit not a very bright one statistically.
3 Anyway there is once more such a wealth of detail in this survey that it is another collector’s item and a further fine source of future reference for cinema stats buffs such as I and although we will probably get the usual c**p from Lensman about how boring it all is please ignore that, Work Horse, and accept the gratitude of us stats fanatics for producing it– especially as you don’t seem to have been at the top of your game physically of late. I have to confess that next to the 1950s the 1990s is my favourite movies decade possibly because my kids had reached the age when they could join me in trips to the cinema to watch adult movies of mutual interest.
Hey Bob
1. Thanks for checking out this latest decade page….I did a lot of research on this page….thus we have over 200 actors on the list.
2. Stallone did not have a stellar 1990s…the Rambo/Rocky franchises did not set the box office on fire like they did in the 1980s.
3. Demi Moore was very very successful when she and Bruce were married.
4. John Travolta’s 21st placing is pretty impressive considering his career was pretty much dead in the water before 1994’s Pulp Fiction….he was a serious box office force from 1994 to 1999.
5. Actually the inclusion of Marlon was more of an honor than it was a jab at you…I was impressed that he was still pulling in box office dollars….heck he looks pretty stout compared to the horrible decade Michael Caine had.
6. Glad this page reminds you of your movie trips with your kids….I also have the same found memories….like taking the oldest to see Jurassic Park…despite my wife’s fear that he would be scared for life.
7. Thanks for the nice compliments about this massive page….thousands of hours were involved in making this page happen.
nicely done
Hey Mel Forever….thank you for the nice compliment.
But Samuel like Jackson made a lot more movies say compare to Mel. That’s why he is at the top.
Hey Eliska….yep Mr. Jackson was a very busy actor in the 1990s….his 40 plus movie output out did Mel by over 28 movies. Thanks for the feedback.
Very detailed information. My only issue would be that the movies are in adjusted box office! think actual gross would have been more interesting. Samuel L. Jackson seems to be out of place in the top position. Fun read!
Hey Terry804. I think you might be right…using the actual grosses would be interesting too. My entire database is set up to calculate the UMR score using the adjusted gross. As for SLJ….yep he was mainly a supporting actor for most of the decade….but his combined gross is very impressive. Thanks for stopping by.