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What We Know About 'Oppenheimer' Star Matt Damon's Net Worth

Plus how much he made for movies like 'Air' and 'Good Will Hunting.'

Matt Damon is back on the awards circuit! In Oppenheimer, his latest collaboration with Christopher Nolan, Damon plays Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project. Damon and Nolan had previously worked together on Interstellar where Damon had a top secret cameo appearance, but he's been upgraded to a much larger role here befitting his stature as a Hollywood A-lister. Matt Damon is one of Hollywood's highest earners and makes a sizable sum per movie. But he didn't start building his net worth that way. 

Growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of a stockbroker named Kent and an early childhood education professor named Nancy, Damon lived just two blocks away from his lifelong best friend and future professional partner, Ben Affleck. The duo developed their love of acting, writing and directing early on, then continued to pursue showbiz stardom after Damon dropped out of Harvard, where he majored in English, to head to Hollywood with his BFF. Damon made his big-screen debut at the age of 18 and has worked steadily since—breaking into the A-list ranks right alongside Affleck with their 1997 sleeper hit, Good Will Hunting.

After the heyday of "Matt and Ben" mania—plus Damon's high-profile relationships with Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder—Damon grew to appreciate a quieter life. He met wife Luciana while filming Stuck On You in Miami, and together they've raised four girls and largely remained out of the public eye. Damon credits his ability to keep his personal life private to simply not seeming interesting enough for the paparazzi to pursue him.

"They can try to stake me out, but they're always going to get the same story—middle-aged married guy with four kids," he previously told Esquire. "So as long as that narrative doesn't change too much, there's no appetite for it. If I'm not jumping up and down on a bar, or lighting something on fire, or cheating on my wife, there's not really any story to tell."

That's also because the 53-year-old Damon is busy telling stories on screen. He recently teamed up again with Ben Affleck to write and star in The Last Duel, and popped up briefly in Thor: Love and Thunder in a cameo. He produced and starred in Affleck's latest directorial endeavor Air, playing Sonny Vaccaro, the man behind Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, and will now appear in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.

The down-to-earth Martian star is one of the highest-grossing actors of his generation, but that doesn't mean he's the wealthiest or even the most bankable—and he's the first to admit it.

"Payments are changing a lot and the business has been carved up pretty good so all the salaries have taken a whack recently," Damon told The Telegraph in 2015. "My salaries are constantly changing and I don't know if that is because I'm running hot or I'm running cold. Careers are constantly changing, so you get paid based on how well you are perceived to be doing."

Here's hoping he doesn't sell himself short, because by all accounts, he's doing quite well. Keep reading to learn all about Matt Damon's net worth and how he made it!

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What is Matt Damon's net worth in 2024?

Matt Damon's net worth is an estimated $170 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

How much did Matt Damon make for Air?

While we don't know for sure how much Damon specifically made for Air, the film itself reportedly cost between $70 million-$80 million to make. While Damon is the lead and has made upwards of $25 million for other leading rolls, because this is an ensemble film with a lower budget, Damon's pay was probably closer to $10 million. However, he is also a producer on the film, which would have earned him a separate paycheck. 

How much did Matt Damon make for Oppenheimer? 

We don't know exactly how much Damon earned for Oppenheimer, but since he's not the lead of the film, it's probably somewhere in the seven figure range. 

How much did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck make for Good Will Hunting?

Damon and BFF Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting in 1997. It was Damon's first major role and the duo's first screenplay together, and it was a massive hit, grossing $225.9 million on a $10 million budget. Damon said he and Affleck sold the script for $600,000 and that he was paid an additional $350,000 for his star turn as the titular M.I.T. janitor and genius. The duo won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the project, and their celebration on the Academy Awards stage was full of pure, unadulterated joy.

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How much did Matt Damon make for Jason Bourne?

Damon's most commercially successful franchise has been the Jason Bourne movies, with Damon taking on the title role in 2002's The Bourne Identity, 2004's The Bourne Supremacy, 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum and 2016's Jason Bourne. It's been estimated that Damon raked in $26 million each for The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, plus another $25 million for Jason Bourne. (What, he wasn't good for that last million again?) Even more amazing, it was also estimated by Vanity Fair that Damon had only 25 lines of dialogue in Jason Bourne, meaning each one earned him a cool mil!

How much did Matt Damon make for The Martian?

Per Vanity Fair, Damon pocketed another $25 million for his Oscar-nominated starring performance in 2015's The Martian.

How much did Matt Damon get paid for Spirit?

If you've got kids who love horses—or you were such a kid nearly 20 years ago—then you've probably heard Damon's voice as the titular horse in the 2002 animated movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. That vocal-only performance reportedly raked in $2.3 million for the actor.

How much has Matt Damon made from other movies?

It's been reported that Damon makes an estimated $10 million per movie—but as he's said, there can be a lot of fluctuation surrounding that figure.

Damon began his career with a handful of small parts in films like Mystic Pizza, Chasing Amy, Courage Under Fire, School Ties, Glory Daze, as well as some TV projects.

Post-Good Will Hunting, he played Private Ryan in Saving Private Ryan, a massive global hit grossing $482 million worldwide on a $70 million budget. He followed with two cult classics: Rounders, which made $23 million on a $12 million budget, and Dogma (alongside Affleck, and the first time he'd play a version of a character named Loki!), which made $31 million on a $10 million budget.

The Talented Mr. Ripley was a major success, and Damon received critical acclaim for his role.

His next slate of projects, however, were commercial disappointments. Damon performed a voiceover role in Titan A.E. in 2000, which underperformed at the box office, making $37 million on a $70 million budget. Damon next appeared in The Legend of Bagger Vance, though he wasn't the marquee name on the film (that was Will Smith); it also underperformed, with just $39 million in ticket grosses on an $80 million budget. That same year, All the Pretty Horses made just $18 million from a $80 million budget.

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Damon bounced back with a small role in Finding Forrester, which took in $80 million on a $43 million budget, and a cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was a hit.

The first installment of the Oceans ensemble franchise, Ocean's Eleven, placed Damon with A-listers including George Clooney and Brad Pitt, and the film was a smash, raking in $451 million on an $85 million budget.

Damon laid low for the most part in 2002, doing some voice work but not trying his hand at leading man roles until The Bourne Identity. It was Damon's inaugural performance as Jason Bourne and a huge hit, making $214 million on a $60 million budget.

He followed with some under-performers and bit parts and cameos before reprising the role of Bourne in 2004's The Bourne Supremacy and starring in Ocean's Twelve, both of which were hits once more. The Brothers Grimm disappointed, but he saw box office and critical successes with Martin Scorsese's The Departed and when he appeared alongside pal Clooney once more in Syriana.

Pairing Damon with Angelina Jolie for The Good Shepherd seemed like a guaranteed blockbuster, but the film underperformed at the box office, taking in $100 million on a $110 million budget. However, like he had before, Damon rebounded in 2007 with Ocean's Thirteen and The Bourne Ultimatum, each making box office bank.

For the next several years, Damon's box office numbers were a rollercoaster once more: