Top Money-Making Star of 2008

Quigley Publishing Company’s 77th Annual Poll resulted in Will Smith being voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2008 in  and is the second black American to win, since Sidney Poitier was first in 1968. Smith, who starred in “Hancock” and “Seven Pounds” in 2008, placed second to Johnny Depp last year. This is Will Smith’s eighth appearance in the Quigley Poll since 1997, when he came in fourth.

Three newcomers on the 2008 list — “Iron Man” Robert Downey Jr, “Batman” star Christian Bale, and Shia LaBeouf, the 22 year-old actor in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” — came in second, third and fourth places respectively.