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#3,885 All-time worldwide
#74 2021 releases

Movie profile

Nomadland

2021 · 108 min · Cor Cordium Productions

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $39.5M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget $34.5M
ROI 7.89x

Domestic gross

$19.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$19.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Nomadland ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #3,885 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2021 releases #74 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2021. Primary genre #1,440 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#3,882 Nobody's Fool 1994 · $39.5M #3,883 Recep Ivedik 4 2014 · $39.5M #3,884 The Legend of Bagger Vance 2000 · $39.5M #3,886 Agora 2009 · $39.5M #3,887 Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 2001 · $39.4M #3,888 Halloween II 2009 · $39.4M

Quick answer

How did Nomadland (2021) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Nomadland (2021) earned a reported $39.5M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $34.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 7.89x. In this database it currently ranks #3,885 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #74 among 2021 releases.

Worldwide gross
$39,458,207
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$34,458,207
ROI
7.89x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 29, 2021
Production
Cor Cordium Productions, Hear/Say Productions, Highwayman Films
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyCor Cordium Productions Release year chart2021 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2021, Nomadland is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Cor Cordium Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $39.5M, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is $34.5M, ROI is 7.89x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,885 all-time in the current chart set and #74 among 2021 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.