Top-earning actor
Kevin Costner
$29,500,000
Forbes, $59M over 1990–91 (half shown)Reported
About $69.7 million in 2025 dollars
Dances with Wolves, which he directed and co-produced, won seven Oscars.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1991
Top-earning actress
Julia Roberts
≈ $7,000,000
Fee for Hook, reportedEstimate
About $16.5 million in 2025 dollars
A year after Pretty Woman's $300,000, Roberts was reportedly paid $7 million to play Tinker Bell.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1991
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
$521 million
- 2
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
$390 million
★ Starring Kevin Costner
- 3
Hook
$301 million
★ Starring Julia Roberts