Top-earning actor
Dustin Hoffman
≈ $5,500,000
Tootsie, reportedEstimate
About $18.3 million in 2025 dollars
A reported $5.5 million for the year's second-biggest hit.
Forbes Starts Counting · 1980s
1982
Top-earning actress
Jane Fonda
≈ $5,500,000
On Golden Pond: acting + producer feeEstimate
About $18.3 million in 2025 dollars
$2 million to act and $3.5 million as producer of On Golden Pond, which played through 1982. Her workout book and video were also becoming bestsellers.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1982
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
$359 million
- 2
Tootsie
$177 million
★ Starring Dustin Hoffman
- 3
An Officer and a Gentleman
$130 million