Top-earning actor
Sylvester Stallone
≈ $12,000,000
Rocky IV, with profit shareEstimate
About $35.9 million in 2025 dollars
Rocky IV reportedly paid $12 million and Rambo: First Blood Part II $7 million, the same year.
Forbes Starts Counting · 1980s
1985
Top-earning actress
Meryl Streep
≈ $4,000,000
About $4 million a filmEstimate
About $12 million in 2025 dollars
Out of Africa won Best Picture.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1985
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
Back to the Future
$211 million
- 2
Rambo: First Blood Part II
$150 million
★ Starring Sylvester Stallone
- 3
Rocky IV
$128 million
★ Starring Sylvester Stallone