There are plenty of box office milestones to attach to Timothée Chalamet’s name. Over 3 billion bucks in overall box office take? He did it in 2025. Leading the top-two domestic box office winners in the space of eight months? He did it in 2024. Giving A24 its highest-grossing film of all time? Happened just this weekend, when Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” crossed $147 million at the global box office.
There’s little doubt that the actor and three-time Best Actor nominee is a major box office draw, but Chalamet’s resume is dotted with not just films in which he’s very much the lead (“Marty Supreme,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wonka,” the “Dune” franchise), but features that boast quite starry ensembles.
Just how big is Chalamet’s own star power as a leading man, we wondered? Not to worry, Chalamaniacs, it’s still quite big: over 2 billion bucks in global returns. Yes, we did the math.
While box office tracking site The Numbers counts 13 films in which Chalamet is the lead, we hewed down the list to nine titles in which he’s easily and obviously the lead or co-lead (in five of those films alone, he plays the titular character).
That means we didn’t count films like “Little Women,” “Lady Bird,” “The French Dispatch,” “Don’t Look Up,” “A Rainy Day in New York,” or “Hostiles,” in which the actor is one part of a big ensemble and couldn’t reasonably be considered the lead (yes, we’re sure there will be arguments that rebuff this thinking, and we’re open to them).
But that still means that in films that most people would call “a Timothée Chalamet” movie, the just-turned-30-year-old has helped pull in over 2 billion dollars at the box office. We even made a chart!
| Film Title | Global Box Office Gross |
| “Marty Supreme” | $147,000,000 (still in theaters) |
| “A Complete Unknown” | $140,427,693 |
| “Dune: Part Two” | $715,206,195 |
| “Wonka” | $634,681,815 |
| “Bones and All” | $15,237,477 |
| “Dune” | $429,550,066 |
| “The King” | $127,937 |
| “Beautiful Boy” | $17,326,032 |
| “Call Me by Your Name” | $41,561,140 |
And this total will only go up (duh) and fast, as “Marty Supreme” has yet to open in a number of international markets, and Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated “Dune: Part Three” is gearing up for a December release (a slot that has previously earned the prior two “Dune” films over a billion dollars alone at the box office).
And while this 2-billion-dollar take doesn’t yet place Chalamet in the tippy-top tier of his money-making acting brethren, consider this: of the current crop of top 10 earners, nine have made major money in traditional superhero roles (save for Tom Cruise, though we could all make the argument for Ethan Hunt as his own brand of superhero). Chalamet has yet to go that route, and still made plenty of money (and earned the kind of accolades that don’t need to be sparked by Marvel or DC gigs) along the way.