Veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones is to sue the makers of last year’s Academy Award victor, “No Country for Old Men,” for allegedly breaking an understanding they had concerning his paycheck.

Tommy Lee Jones made an exception with Paramount Pictures’ “No Country for Old Men” film and accepted a smaller salary than usual to participate in the project. The studio however promised him “significant box office bonuses” in the event the movie fared well. Jones never received this compensation.

The whole story appears black on white in court papers filed in California on behalf of the 61-year-old actor, reports E! Online.

Tommy Lee Jones is requesting that an auditor be involved in the upcoming proceedings, in order to look at the production accounts and subsequently establish the amount he is owed.

The amount Jones is presently considering is $10 million. At least.

The actor further claims that his contract with Paramount contained errors which were not removed when he solicited it.

“No Country for Old Men” made more than $160 million upon its release and enjoyed hyperbolic praise from movie critics. It also won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture (beating fellow nominees “Atonement,” “Juno,” “Michael Clayton” and “There Will Be Blood”), Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem).

Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, who chases the assassin portrayed by Bardem.

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony also saw Jones receive a nomination in the Best Actor category, for his performance in “In the Valley of Elah.” He lost to Daniel Day Lewis in “There Will Be Blood.”

Jones does have a golden statuette of his own though, received for his supporting role in 1993’s “The Fugitive.”