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Russell Crowe

Benedict Cumberbatch

Head-to-Head Comparison

Russell Crowe

3 : 4

Benedict Cumberbatch

#31

Current Rank

#1

#2

Peak Rank

#1

33

Years Ranked

21

10

Years in Top 10

10

10 years

Longest Top 10 Streak

9 years

33

Years in Top 50

18

Thor: Love and Thunder $343.3 Million

Biggest Hit

Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million

$2.2 Billion

Career Domestic Box Office

$5.4 Billion

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Career Ranking History

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Filmography Comparison

Russell Crowe

43 theatrical releases • $2.2 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2025 Nuremberg $14.5 Million
2024 Kraven the Hunter $25.0 Million
2024 The Exorcism $4.5 Million
2024 Land of Bad $4.6 Million
2023 The Pope's Exorcist $20.0 Million
2022 Thor: Love and Thunder $343.3 Million
2020 Unhinged $20.8 Million
2020 True History of the Kelly Gang $33,817
2018 Boy Erased $6.8 Million
2017 The Mummy $80.2 Million
2016 The Nice Guys $36.3 Million
2015 The Water Diviner $4.2 Million
2014 Noah $101.2 Million
2014 Winter's Tale $12.6 Million
2013 Man of Steel $291.0 Million
2013 Broken City $19.7 Million
2012 Les Miserables $148.8 Million
2012 The Man with the Iron Fists $15.6 Million
2010 The Next Three Days $21.1 Million
2010 Robin Hood $105.3 Million
2009 State of Play $37.0 Million
2008 Body of Lies $39.4 Million
2007 American Gangster $130.2 Million
2007 3:10 to Yuma $53.6 Million
2006 A Good Year $7.5 Million
2005 Cinderella Man $61.6 Million
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World $93.9 Million
2001 A Beautiful Mind $170.7 Million
2000 Proof of Life $32.6 Million
2000 Gladiator $187.7 Million
1999 The Insider $29.1 Million
1999 Mystery Alaska $8.9 Million
1997 Breaking Up $11,690
1997 L.A. Confidential $64.6 Million
1997 Rough Magic $247,202
1996 For the Moment $121,548
1995 Virtuosity $24.0 Million
1995 The Quick and the Dead $18.6 Million
1995 The Sum of Us $766,464
1993 Romper Stomper $175,340
1992 The Efficiency Expert $179,469
1992 Proof $524,668
1991 Blood Oath $52,654

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