8. Leonardo DiCaprio

Box office return: $9.90 for every $1 paid

DiCaprio’s outsized paychecks for star vehicles such as The Revenant mean that even when the film performs well at the box office (grossing $533 million on a $135 million budget, in this case), his ROI does not seem as impressive. However, his last two films, The Revenant and Wolf of Wall Street, earned him Best Actor Oscar nods and wide critical acclaim—a different reward valued deeply by some investors. DiCaprio eventually won an Academy Award this year for the Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed feature.