The Biggest Discrepancies in Box Office/Quality Movie Success

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  • Highest Grossing Movie-------Best Movie
  • Robert De Niro: Meet the Fockers: $352 million The Godfather II: $202 million, Goodfellas: $88 million
  • Leonardo Dicaprio: Titanic: $1 billion, Blood Diamond: $68 million or The Departed: $160 million
  • Christopher Walken: Batman Returns: $312 million, The Deer Hunter $166 million
  • Geoffrey Rush: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: $403 million, Shine: $62 million
  • Jon Voight: Transformers: $369 million, Midnight Cowboy: $251 million
  • Ralph Fiennes: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Pt 2: $382 million, Schindler's List: $183 million
  • Nicholas Cage: National Treasure: Book of Secrets: $248 million Leaving Las Vegas: $58 million
  • Willem Dafoe: Spider-Man: $553 million, Platoon: $282 million, The Boondock Saints: $45 thousand
  • Liam Neeson: Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace $675 million, Schindler's List: $183 million
  • Edward Norton: The Incredible Hulk: $149 million, Fight Club: $58 million, American History X: $11 million
  • Eddie Murphy: Shrek 2: $566 million Trading Places: $228 million
  • Tommy Lee Jones: Men in Black:$435 million, No Country for Old Men: $84 million
  • Denzel Washington: The Pelican Brief: $193 million, Malcolm X: $92 million
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All earnings are courtesy of Boxofficemojo.com and reflect only domestic sales adjusted for inflation.
No complaints for the likes of Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump, Harrison Ford and Star Wars