Want to know the best Barbra Streisand movies? How about the worst Barbra Streisand movies? Curious about Barbra Streisand’s box office grosses or which Barbra Streisand movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Barbra Streisand movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This Barbra Streisand (1942-) movie page comes from an e-mail request from KellyE1967 that we do more actress pages. We can now say that Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn have been completed per similar requests. Before Lady Gaga, Madonna and Oprah, Streisand had to be the most influential woman in the world (even if they did not have such titles back then). As a singer, Streisand has sold over 140 million albums and won 8 Grammy® awards. This page will look at her equally successfully movie career.
Streisand’s movie career started off with a bang. Her feature debut was in 1968’s Funny Girl. Funny Girl would be her second biggest box office hit of her career and win her the Oscar® for Best Actress. The peak of her movie career was from 1968 to 1979. She would appear in the blockbusters What’s Up Doc?, A Star Is Born, Funny Girl and The Way We Were. In 1983 she started to direct her own movies and had great success with Yentl and The Prince of Tides. After nearly a ten year break from movies, she appeared as Ben Stiller’s mom in 2004’s Meet the Fockers and 2010’s Little Fockers and most recently as Seth Rogen’s mom in The Guilt Trip (2012)
Her IMDb page shows only 20 acting credits from 1968-2012. This page will rank 19 Barbra Streisand movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her Sunday Night Live television appearance was not included in the rankings.
Barbra Streisand Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Barbra Streisand Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by Barbra Streisand’s co-stars of her movies.
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by how they were ranked by box office in the year of their release
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Barbra Streisand movie received.
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Barbra Streisand
1. Barbra Streisand was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
2. Since completing The Main Event….Barbra Streisand has only acted in 6 movies in the last 36 years….or one movie every 6 years.
3. Barbra Streisand is one of the few people to win/receive an Oscar®, a Grammy®, a Tony®, and an Emmy® award.
4. Barbra Streisand has received two Oscar® nominations for Best Actress (Funny Girl & The Way We Were), two Oscar® nominations for Best Song (A Star is Born & The Mirror Has Two Faces) and one Oscar® nomination for Best Picture (The Prince of Tides).
5. Barbra Streisand won Oscars® for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born.
6. Almost 50% of Barbra Streisand‘s acting performances have been nominated for a Golden Globe® award for Best Actress. Of her 9 nominations she won for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born. Streisand has been nominated for 2 Best Director Golden Globe® awards. She won for 1983’s Yentl.
7. Currently Barbra Streisand has 4 movies in the Top 200 Adjusted For Inflation Box Office Hits of All-Time: #134 Meet The Fockers, #171 Funny Girl, #186 What’s Up Doc and #196 A Star Is Born. A 5th movie The Way We Were just recently got knocked off that list. Pretty impressive, especially when you realize she only has 19 movies.
8. Although Barbra Streisand has appeared in only 19 movies, those 19 movies have been nominated for 44 Oscars®….or 2.44 nominations per movie. The 2.44 Oscar® nominations per movie is the highest average that I have found for any movie star. It barely beats out Clark Gable’s average of 2.42 nominations per movie.
9. Barbra Streisand has been married twice. Her first marriage (1963 -1971) was to actor Elliott Gould. They had one child together…Jason born in 1966. Her second marriage (1998 – present) is to actor James Brolin. She is the step-mother to actor Josh Brolin, as well two other Brolin children from his previous marriages.
10. Roles Barbra Streisand turned down….Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Cabaret, Chicago, Cinderella Liberty, The Exorcist, Julia, King Kong (1976), Misery, Oceans Twelve, Thelma and Louise and Titanic.
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Happy 76th birthday Ms. Streisand!
thanks Flora . Barbra best voice ever. great actress. number 3 on my favorites list. happy birthday
Today, Barbara Joan Streisand turns 76. A good opportunity to “revive” this UMR page by simply saying: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
(and wishing for one more movie as a worthy bookend to an astonishing movie career).
There is no other in the entertainment business that can compare Broadway, actress, recording star and so on……I am 57 years old today and watched the mirror has 2 faces fir the 10 th time….lets get Barbra’s old movies released in the theaters again….she knows how to tell a wonderful story in any movie she has done……love her love her love her
Hey Jeffrey. Thanks for checking out our Barbra Streisand page. I agree her success in all aspects of entertainment is truly impressive. From music to movies to her television specials. Just recently a Funny Girl played at my local theater for a few days….so maybe more of her classics will be doing the same. Good to hear you liked The Mirror Has Two Faces so much. Good comment.
They had everything from Funny Girl to Yentl on the big screen in Manhattan’s quad cinema from june 30th till today…only 9 hours away by plane from where I live. Anyway, I caught The Way We Were in Manhatten at an open air screening 12 years ago on a warm summer night…people brough their blankets, talked back to the screen, booed Hubbel off the screen when he dismissed Katie…awfull to see a movie under these circumstances when you don’t know it, but as it was, a great experience!
Hey Lupino…thanks for that information….maybe Jeffrey was lucky enough to make it to Manhatten. I guess years after Redford’s peak…he lost a lot of the audience that understood his thinking in 1973. Streisand fans are very very loyal. Thanks for sharing that memory….good story.
i love barbara’s films…..she is totally underrated as an actress and director….having said that yentl is awful…..
Hey Christopher….I agree with you about Yentl and her being underrated. Not thinking many young people realize she was such a box office star in the 1970s. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Bruce raising up a storm…”.I agree with you about Yentl —“…well, Spielberg, the Golden Globe People, a legion of fans including Lupino don’t 😉
I always thought that the european reception of Streisands debut as a director was much more friendly than the american. To me, Yentl has a distinct european air about it, that really may explain why it was a great success over here (10th most successful film of the year in germany, first in some scandinavian countries). Maybe Yentl is what a good european musical would look like if that existed. Same goes for All Night Long, by the way- much closer to the european way of filmmaking than to the mainstream american.
Hey Lupino…..well…we can’t agree on everything. Granted I was a teenager when I saw Yentl for my first only viewing….but it bored me to tears….maybe now that I am older and wiser…I will see it in a different light…..but…I do admit….I have no plans to watch it anytime in the near or distant future.
Good points about the few Streisand movies that did not take off in North America….I never understood why All Night Long did so poorly….great cast….and Streisand was the biggest star working in movies….granted that movie helped take that title away from her.
Good feedback on Ms. Streisand.
As a member of Streisand’s “very loyal fanbase”, I still find it refreshing to disagree on her (as long as it is done in a civilized way- some comments on the old Imdb massage boards were so highly personal and hateful that I stopped going there). I think All Night Long must have had bad word of mouth in it’s day. It opened at number 1 in it’s first week and was gone by the second. It was a small movie, never intended for a “mainstream release”. But when Barbra, who was a friend of it’s french director’s (Jean-Claude Tramont) wife (talent agent Sue Mengers) replaced Lisa Eichhorn per Sue’s request, the budget went from 4 to 8 million Dollars (making Streisand the highest paid actress in the world). Gene Hackman, the only well known actor before Barbra’s involvement, suddenly had the greatest female box office attraction to act against and the studio (Universal), instead of sticking to their original marketing strategie, felt the need to cash in on the success of Streisand’s “zany comedies” …but a zany comedy this one wasn’t, more an “Art Film” in the french tradition, So, a supporting player got the salary equalling the whole movie’s budget, the original star was relegated to playing second fiddle in the advertising campaign, Streisand’s golden streak at the box office was finally broken, Lisa Eichhorn’s ego suffered a big blow, the studio a financial loss and the friendship between Streisand and Mengers came to a premature end. No winner in this story.
Hey Lupino. Whilst sharing my UMR links around…I have come across some pretty loyal fans….I would say the Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Doris Day and Barbra Streisand ones have been the most loyal. I remember when a Day group found my page…just destroying….but at the end of the day….it was a much better page…after I fixed all the issues they found.
Thanks for all the information on All Night Long….I barely remember when it came out…but back in my video store days…..it was a movie that got requested a lot…so I eventually checked it out (back then I could get two free movies a day….and I took advantage of that). Probably Streisand completists were the ones looking for the movie. 🙂
Barbra Streisand turns 75 today! No more word of Gypsy or Catherine the Great….Still hoping for another bookend movie than Guilt Trip to a marvelously successful and enduring movie career!
Hey Lupino….she might have one more classic in her. You are 100% correct having The Guilt Trip as your swan song is not the way you want to end a wondeful career. But with only 5 movies over the last 30 years……it might just be the final movie. Happy 75th birthday Ms. Streisand.
So sad as to what might have been, we can only be thankful for what we have. Life gets in the way and she deserved one too. Here’s hoping for a real kitchen sink drama and classic musical in her future.