Among the worldwide grosses listed by Box Office Watch, Man of Steel (2013) is Kevin Costner’s highest-grossing film, with a reported $668.0 million. The ranking below sorts the source’s reported worldwide totals—not domestic grosses—and is limited to films with a worldwide figure in its filmography table.
The 10 highest-grossing Kevin Costner movies
Box Office Watch lists 34 films from 1985 through 2024 in its filmography. The following are the ten highest entries with reported worldwide totals, ranked from highest to lowest. Figures are the source’s estimates, rounded to one decimal place in millions; they are not inflation-adjusted and may differ from totals in other databases. Box Office Watch filmography
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| Rank | Film | Year | Reported worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man of Steel | 2013 | $668.0 million |
| 2 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | $424.0 million |
| 3 | The Bodyguard | 1992 | $411.0 million |
| 4 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | $390.5 million |
| 5 | Waterworld | 1995 | $264.2 million |
| 6 | Hidden Figures | 2016 | $237.6 million |
| 7 | JFK | 1991 | $205.4 million |
| 8 | A Perfect World | 1993 | $135.1 million |
| 9 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | 2014 | $131.4 million |
| 10 | Message in a Bottle | 1999 | $118.9 million |
Why Man of Steel tops the list
Costner’s role as Jonathan Kent in the 2013 superhero film puts it well ahead of the rest of this source’s ranking: its reported $668.0 million worldwide total is $244.0 million more than Dances with Wolves, the second-place film.
How to read the ranking
Worldwide grosses are not domestic grosses
This list uses worldwide totals. A film’s domestic gross covers a different market and can produce a different ranking. For example, a 2005 Los Angeles Times list used domestic grosses and limited its scope to films in which Costner was the lead or a principal character. It included The Untouchables among its six entries, while the worldwide ranking above includes all filmography entries with a reported total. Los Angeles Times archive
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The figures are estimates, not a single definitive tally
Box Office Watch’s figures are one database’s reported totals, not immutable exact amounts. Differences between databases can reflect their reporting and treatment of releases. Guinness World Records, for example, gives Dances with Wolves a worldwide theatrical figure of $424,200,000 in a record published as of January 15, 2018, compared with Box Office Watch’s rounded $424.0 million. Guinness says, “Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online.” Guinness World Records
These totals are not adjusted for inflation
The values above are nominal reported grosses, not estimates of what each film would earn in today’s dollars. Guinness explicitly labels its cited Western-film takings as not adjusted for inflation, and Box Office Watch does not identify its filmography chart as inflation-adjusted. Comparing films across decades by these figures therefore compares reported dollar totals, not equivalent purchasing power. Box Office Watch filmography Guinness World Records
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Dances with Wolves in context
The second-place film is also a notable example of Costner’s work behind the camera: Rotten Tomatoes’ biography says he starred in, directed, and produced Dances with Wolves. Rotten Tomatoes biography
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