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Ian McKellen

Benedict Cumberbatch

Head-to-Head Comparison

Ian McKellen

2 : 6

Benedict Cumberbatch

#40

Current Rank

#1

#3

Peak Rank

#1

42

Years Ranked

21

6

Years in Top 10

10

6 years

Longest Top 10 Streak

9 years

42

Years in Top 50

18

Beauty and the Beast $504.0 Million

Biggest Hit

Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million

$3.9 Billion

Career Domestic Box Office

$5.4 Billion

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Career Ranking History

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Filmography Comparison

Ian McKellen

41 theatrical releases • $3.9 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2024 The Critic $449,020
2019 Cats $27.2 Million
2019 The Good Liar $17.2 Million
2019 All Is True $1.2 Million
2018 National Theatre Live: King Lear $185,305
2017 Beauty and the Beast $504.0 Million
2015 Mr. Holmes $17.7 Million
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $255.1 Million
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past $233.9 Million
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $258.4 Million
2013 The Wolverine $132.6 Million
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $303.0 Million
2007 The Golden Compass $70.1 Million
2007 Stardust $38.6 Million
2006 Flushed Away $64.7 Million
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand $234.4 Million
2006 The Da Vinci Code $217.5 Million
2006 Doogal $7.4 Million
2005 Asylum $375,403
2005 Emile $5,799
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $377.0 Million
2003 X2: X-Men United $214.9 Million
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $339.8 Million
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $313.4 Million
2000 X-Men $157.3 Million
1998 Apt Pupil $8.9 Million
1998 Gods and Monsters $6.5 Million
1998 Swept from the Sea $397,020
1997 Bent $496,059
1996 Jack & Sarah $218,626
1995 Restoration $4.0 Million
1995 Richard III $2.7 Million
1995 Heaven's a Drag $27,455
1994 The Shadow $32.1 Million
1994 I'll Do Anything $10.4 Million
1993 Six Degrees of Separation $6.4 Million
1993 The Ballad of Little Jo $543,091
1993 Last Action Hero $50.0 Million
1989 Scandal $8.8 Million
1985 Plenty $6.1 Million
1983 The Keep $4.2 Million

Benedict Cumberbatch

35 theatrical releases • $5.4 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2025 The Roses $15.3 Million
2025 The Phoenician Scheme $19.6 Million
2025 The Thing with Feathers $171,832
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