Tom Cruise

Benedict Cumberbatch

Head-to-Head Comparison

Tom Cruise

4 : 4

Benedict Cumberbatch

#12

Current Rank

#1

#2

Peak Rank

#1

43

Years Ranked

20

24

Years in Top 10

9

23 years

Longest Top 10 Streak

8 years

43

Years in Top 50

17

Top Gun: Maverick $718.7 Million

Biggest Hit

Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million

$5.3 Billion

Career Domestic Box Office

$5.4 Billion

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Filmography Comparison

Tom Cruise

46 theatrical releases • $5.3 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One $172.6 Million
2022 Top Gun: Maverick $718.7 Million
2018 Mission: Impossible - Fallout $220.2 Million
2017 American Made $51.3 Million
2017 The Mummy $80.2 Million
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back $58.7 Million
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $195.0 Million
2014 Edge of Tomorrow $100.2 Million
2013 Oblivion $89.1 Million
2012 Jack Reacher $80.1 Million
2012 Rock of Ages $38.5 Million
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol $209.4 Million
2010 Knight and Day $76.4 Million
2008 Valkyrie $83.1 Million
2008 Tropic Thunder $110.5 Million
2007 Lions for Lambs $15.0 Million
2006 Mission: Impossible III $134.0 Million
2005 War of the Worlds $234.3 Million
2004 Collateral $101.0 Million
2003 The Last Samurai $111.1 Million
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember $213.3 Million
2002 Minority Report $132.1 Million
2001 Vanilla Sky $100.6 Million
2000 Mission: Impossible II $215.4 Million
1999 Magnolia $22.5 Million
1999 Eyes Wide Shut $55.7 Million
1996 Jerry Maguire $154.0 Million
1996 Mission: Impossible $181.0 Million
1994 Interview with the Vampire $105.3 Million
1993 The Firm $158.3 Million
1992 A Few Good Men $141.3 Million
1992 Far and Away $58.9 Million
1990 Days of Thunder $82.7 Million
1989 Born on the Fourth of July $70.0 Million
1988 Rain Man $172.8 Million
1988 Young Guns $45.7 Million
1988 Cocktail $78.2 Million
1986 The Color of Money $52.3 Million
1986 Top Gun $176.8 Million
1986 Legend $15.5 Million
1983 All the Right Moves $17.2 Million
1983 Risky Business $63.5 Million
1983 The Outsiders $25.7 Million
1983 Losin' It $1.2 Million
1981 Taps $35.9 Million
1981 Endless Love $31.2 Million

Benedict Cumberbatch

32 theatrical releases • $5.4 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2024 The Book of Clarence $6.1 Million
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411.3 Million
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home $804.8 Million
2021 The Mauritanian $836,536
2021 The Courier $6.6 Million
2019 1917 $159.2 Million
2019 Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million
2019 The Current War $6.0 Million
2018 The Grinch $271.7 Million
2018 Avengers: Infinity War $678.8 Million
2017 Thor: Ragnarok $315.1 Million
2016 Doctor Strange $232.6 Million
2016 Zoolander 2 $28.8 Million
2015 Black Mass $62.6 Million
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $255.1 Million
2014 Penguins of Madagascar $83.9 Million
2014 The Imitation Game $91.1 Million
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $258.4 Million
2013 August: Osage County $37.7 Million
2013 The Fifth Estate $3.3 Million
2013 12 Years a Slave $56.7 Million
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness $228.8 Million
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $303.0 Million
2011 War Horse $79.9 Million
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy $24.1 Million
2011 The Whistleblower $1.1 Million
2010 Four Lions $304,616
2010 Creation $341,323
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl $26.8 Million
2007 Atonement $50.9 Million
2007 Amazing Grace $21.3 Million
2007 Starter for 10 $216,839