Top-earning actor
Robert Redford
≈ $2,000,000
A Bridge Too Far, about $2 millionEstimate
About $10.6 million in 2025 dollars
Every star took the same fee, $250,000 a week; Redford's total was reported at about $2 million.
New Hollywood · 1970s
1977
Top-earning actress
Jane Fonda
≈ $500,000
About $500,000 a filmEstimate
About $2.7 million in 2025 dollars
Back from the political wilderness, Fonda was earning about $500,000 a film.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1977
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
Star Wars
$221 million
- 2
Smokey and the Bandit
$127 million
- 3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
$116 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.