Top-earning actor
Sean Connery
$1,250,000
Record fee for Diamonds Are ForeverDeal
About $9.9 million in 2025 dollars
United Artists paid a then-record $1.25 million to bring him back as Bond. He gave the fee to a Scottish education charity.
New Hollywood · 1970s
1971
Top-earning actress
Barbra Streisand
≈ $1,000,000
Repeats her 1970 feeEstimate
About $8 million in 2025 dollars
Streisand was the top female box-office star; the figure repeats her 1970 fee.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1971
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Fiddler on the Roof
$40.5 million
- 2
Billy Jack
$32.5 million
- 3
The French Connection
$26.3 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.