GROTON, Mass., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Hanks has been voted the Top
Money-Making Star of 2004 in Quigley Publishing Company's 72nd Annual Top Ten
Money-Making Stars Poll. Hanks, who appeared in three films in 2004, has won
the poll five times and has placed in the Top Ten eleven times. He finished
ahead of all time box office champion Tom Cruise, who has appeared on the list
seventeen times and has won six times, the most of any actor since 1932.
Tom Cruise finished second to Hanks with his performance in "Collateral."
Leonardo DiCaprio who first appeared on the list in 1997, finished in third
place. He has held this position twice and a ranking of #5 once. Nicholas Cage
ranked fourth overall. Surprisingly, this is the first time Cage has been in
the Top Ten. Jim Carrey, who won the 2003 Poll slipped to #5.
The rest of the Top Ten in order were: Denzel Washington #6, Julia Roberts
#7, Will Smith #8, Brad Pitt #9 and Adam Sandler #10.
The Quigley Poll, conducted every year since 1932, is an annual survey of
motion picture exhibitors, which asks them to vote for the ten stars that
generated the most box-office revenue in the preceding year for their
theatres. Long regarded as one of the most reliable indicators of a
Star's box-office draw, the Quigley Poll has been cited in hundreds of
publications and appears annually in Quigley Publishing Company's
International Motion Picture Almanac.
To date, Tom Cruise has been voted number one six times. Tom Hanks, Clint
Eastwood, Burt Reynolds and Bing Crosby have all won five times. John Wayne,
Doris Day and Shirley Temple each finished first four times, but John Wayne
was voted one of the Top Ten Money-Making Stars an astounding 25 times from
1949 to 1974.
Exhibitors were also asked to name the Stars of Tomorrow for 2004: one
actor and one actress who they feel will be Top Money-Makers in the years to
come. The 2004 winners are Jamie Foxx who starred in "Ray" and was in
"Breakin' All the Rules" and "Collateral" and Scarlett Johansson who was in
"The Perfect Score" and "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie." Johansson was also
a Star of Tomorrow in 2003, the only person to be so named in consecutive
years.
Top Ten Money-Making Stars of 2004
1. Tom Hanks
2. Tom Cruise
3. Leonardo DiCaprio
4. Nicholas Cage
5. Jim Carrey
6. Denzel Washington
7. Julia Roberts
8. Will Smith
9. Brad Pitt
10. Adam Sandler
Stars of Tomorrow
Scarlett Johansson
Jamie Foxx
Quigley Publishing Company was founded in 1915 and has published the
International Motion Picture Almanac annually since 1930 and the International
Television & Video Almanac since 1955. Historical data on the Top Ten Money-
Making Star Poll dating back to 1932 is available in the 2005 edition of the
International Motion Picture Almanac. More information is available on our
web site: http://www.quigleypublishing.com
SOURCE Quigley Publishing Company
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