Top-earning actor
Harrison Ford
$65,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $97.5 million in 2025 dollars
The fourth Indiana Jones, 19 years after the third.
The Back-End Years · 2000s
2009
Top-earning actress
Angelina Jolie
$27,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $40.5 million in 2025 dollars
Wanted, Kung Fu Panda and Changeling.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2009
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Avatar
$2,744 million
- 2
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
$934 million
- 3
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
$887 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.