Top-earning actor
Tom Hanks
$71,500,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $138 million in 2025 dollars
Forbes switched to one-year figures with its new Celebrity 100.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1999
Top-earning actress
Julia Roberts
$50,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $96.6 million in 2025 dollars
Notting Hill and Runaway Bride in one summer.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1999
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
$924 million
- 2
The Sixth Sense
$673 million
- 3
Toy Story 2
$511 million
★ Starring Tom Hanks