As of the selected ranking year, Jessica Lange and Whoopi Goldberg form a comparison shaped more by career pattern than by any single credit. Commercial scale is another meaningful divider, with the career domestic box office measure giving Whoopi Goldberg the larger theatrical footprint.

The biggest-hit category sharpens the box office contrast, especially because Whoopi Goldberg's leading film creates the stronger single-release benchmark. Overall, the head-to-head score leans leans toward Whoopi Goldberg, but the strongest context comes from the categories where the gap is clearest.