Top-earning actor
Robert Downey Jr.
$75,000,000
ForbesReported
About $102 million in 2025 dollars
Iron Man 3 crossed $1.2 billion.
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2014
Top-earning actress
Sandra Bullock
$51,000,000
ForbesReported
About $69.4 million in 2025 dollars
About $70 million over time from Gravity, which she carried almost alone.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2014
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Transformers: Age of Extinction
$1,104 million
- 2
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
$962 million
- 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
$773 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.