Top-earning actor
Harrison Ford
$22,000,000
Forbes, $44M over 1993–94 (half shown)Reported
About $47.8 million in 2025 dollars
“The highest-paid actor on the list,” with The Fugitive and Clear and Present Danger.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1994
Top-earning actress
Barbra Streisand
$28,500,000
Forbes, $57M over 1993–94 (half shown)Reported
About $61.9 million in 2025 dollars
The money came from singing, not acting: her first concert tour in nearly three decades, at up to $1,000 a ticket.
Also on screen
Box office champions of 1994
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Forrest Gump
$678 million
- 2
True Lies
$379 million
- 3
The Mask
$352 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.