Want to know the best Ben Affleck movies? How about the worst Ben Affleck movies? Curious about Ben Affleck’s box office grosses or which Ben Affleck movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ben Affleck movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
When Ben Affleck (1972-) failed to get a Best Director Oscar® nomination for Argo, it became one of the biggest Oscar® snubs of all-time. The uproar of the snub seems to be one of the reasons that Argo was able to easily beat Lincoln and win 2012’s Best Picture Oscar®. Since the snub my mom has become a big Ben Affleck fan…..so I figured I would do a page on him for my mom….so here you go mom….a Ben Affleck page.
His IMDb page shows 64 acting credits from 1982-2017. This page will rank 41 Ben Affleck movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Cameos, television appearances, straight to DVD movies and shorts were not included in the rankings.
Ben Affleck Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ben Affleck 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 Ben Affleck movies by his co-stars
- Sort Ben Affleck movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost…(in millions)
- Sort Ben Affleck movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost…(in millions)
- Sort Ben Affleck 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 Ben Affleck movie received.
- Sort Ben Affleck 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 Ben Affleck
1. Ben Affleck (1972-) was born in California and raised in Massachusetts. His younger brother Casey Affleck is also an actor. Affleck is married to actress Jennifer Garner and they have three children.
2. Ben Affleck has won two Oscars® in his career. The first Oscar® was for writing the screenplay for 1997’s Good Will Hunting. The second Oscar® was for producing 2012’s Best Picture…Argo. His only major acting nomination was a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2006’s Hollywoodland.
3. Three of Ben Affleck’s movies have been nominated for Best Picture Oscars®. Argo (2012) and Shakespeare in Love (1998) won….with Good Will Hunting being the third film.
4. Roles turned down or seriously considered for…..Live Free or Die Hard, Brokeback Mountain, Cinderella Man, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Glory Road, and Runaway Bride.
5. Cogerson Movie Score® database has ranked over 7,000 movies….Argo is Affleck’s highest ranked movie…coming in at number 121….on the other end of the spectrum….2003’s Gigli is the 6th worst movie….as it is ranked 7,123 of 7,129 movies.
6. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been friends since little league baseball. Over the years they have produced, written or starred in 9 movies together. Their Good Will Hunting screenplay is probably the pinnacle of this friendship
7. Ben Affleck has appeared in 6 Kevin Smith movies….Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Clerks II, Jersey Girl and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Kevin Smith is one of the main reasons Good Will Hunting ended up at Miramax and Damon and Affleck were the stars of the movie.
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Nice new video. I have seen 32 of these movies. Only missing Triple Frontier, Pearl Harbor and Bounce. Favorites would include #25 Smokin’ Aces…what a cast. #13 Armageddon ….guilty pleasure…and a movie I re-watch regularly. #1 Argo…..though…I have only seen it one time. #30 Jersey Girl…I actually think it is one of his best performances….seems this one is connected with the disaster Gigli….even though Lopez is barely in this one. One of WoC’s favorite movies is #4 Good Will Hunting. Hard to see Shakespeare In Love and not remember how it robbed Saving Private Ryan out of the Best Picture Oscar. Voted up and shared
Hi Bruce, the sight of Shakespeare in Love still bothers you after all these years eh, it’s a good film but better than Saving Private Ryan? Come on, only if you hate war movies, or can’t stand Spielberg.
I enjoyed Argo but I thought it was a bit overrated. I’m sure there were better films that year.
Thanks for the vote, share and comment, much appreciated.
Ben is not among those who made the cut for Bruce’s 1950-2010 Legends lists. However he’s still going strong and in fact since 2010 has had 5 mega hits that both crossed well past the 100 million adjusted domestic barrier and earned massive figures abroad; and he has also won an Oscar and a Golden Globe [best picture/best director]. “When Brando died, we all moved up one,” said Jack Nicholson and fortunately nobody has to die for Ben and indeed other stars to move up under the carefully selected criteria by which WH assesses greatness.
In fact if WH does revise his lists at some future date -who knows?- the “new Brando” that Bruce has been looking for, a new Chuck, a new Sir Maurice, a new Al Leach, a new Willis [with hair] and even a new Nick and Asta Charles [this time with a dynamic Nora]could have emerged to take by storm even Bruce’s painstakingly-measured criteria. In the meantime Ben has in fact been doing exceptionally well for himself as it is:
1/14 of his movies have crashed the Cogerson magical 100 million barrier of adjusted domestic grosses and in the stats table above those 14 have a total worldwide gross of just over $6 billion, a whopping average of around $425 million per movie. His top 25 worldwide Cogerson grosses amount to over $7 billion with an average per movie of around $285 million.
2/With a net personal worth of a reported $130 million he is well into the 2nd tier of the richest movie stars in history – ie those with a current fortune of between $100 and $200 million – and of course as suggested above he’s hardly finished yet! – see also Part 2 about new projects.
3/IMDB credits him with a massive 73 acting awards and 108 nominations.
4/ He has appeared in 17 television productions/series between 1984 and now and he has co-produced many of them
Ben has 3 new films at post-production stage:
1/Jay and Silent Bob Reboot – cameo role. To be Released this year
2/The Way Back – star and producer. 2020 release
3/The Last Thing He Wanted -costarring with Anne Hathaway Release TBA
Ben is an activist for the US Democratic party, and he describes himself as “moderately liberal”. He is actively involved in humanitarian work and has written op-ed articles for the Washington Post about issues facing the Eastern Congo. He also does work associated with fundraising for child welfare.
Best POSTERS in your video according to my scoring: 1/1st one for Jersey Girl 2/Daredevil 3/Extract 4/Suicide Squad 5/Live by Night 6/2nd one for Paycheck 7/1st one for Justice League 8/foreign language one for Justice League 9/two for Batman v Superman [whose side were you as a superhero connoisseur on?] 10/two for Armageddon 11/The Accountant 12/Chasing Amy 13/Gone Baby Gone 14/Shakespeare in Love 15/Gone Girl.
My personal pick of the STILLS 1/Forces of Nature 2/Wild Christmas 3/two for Daredevil 4/with my Morg 5/two for Paycheck 6/Justice League 7/BM v SM 8/Dogma 9/Armageddon 10/with Russell Crowe 11/Changing Lanes 12/Good Will Hunting 13/Gone Girl.
Excellent:97.5% rating. You and WH agree on 5 of Ben’s Top 6 best reviewed, you going for Good Will Hunting and WH plumping instead for Dazed and Confused in the Top 6. I back you for Good Will Hunting but as you have both rightly included included Shakespeare in Love I too will be Shakespearean and say “A plague on both your houses” for including The Town as I found it totally uninteresting.
Hey Bob….good breakdown on Mr. Affleck. I actually think he is slowing down….I know his Batman movies made decent money…..but not thinking many people loved them….plus he got removed as Batman….as he was replaced by Mr. Twilight…Robert Pattinson. Glad Steve and I agree on most Ben’s Top 6. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the feedback. If your own misgiving are correct [and you ARE good at assessing such things] I may have to stand corrected about BEN advancing too much further and we will be depending upon,to crack and upset the Cogerson Legends tables, some new Willis type – this time with as said hair but without the baggage of a ‘spoiler’ spouse/ex.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, box office info and trivia, much appreciated. Glad you liked the posters and stills.
Superman was the more sympathetic of the two in Batman v Superman. Bruce Wayne started hating Superman after a colleague of his was killed in a collapsing skyscraper during a battle between Supes and General Zod (the climax of Man of Steel). So for much of this film a grim-faced angry Bruce Wayne is planning out how to kill Superman.
I watched The Town again recently, it’s overlong but it kept me interested. It’s been a while since I last watched Gone Baby Gone. I thought that was well directed by Affleck, ditto Argo.
Gone Girl was directed by David Fincher and was highly rated, looking at Bruce’s chart it was successful too. I might give that another spin too.
I didn’t include Dazed and Confused because Affleck wasn’t in the first 5 or 6 credit names and I had used that poster recently for another actor.
I did cheat by including Suicide Squad on the video, Affleck has a couple of uncredited cameos as Batman in that. That film will turn up again on my videos some time next week. This time for a leading role.
Two films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Argo and Shakespeare in Love. Three more scored 9 out of 10 – Gone Girl, Gone Baby Gone and Good Will Hunting.
No.1 Affleck film at IMDB is Good Will Hunting, Argo is tops at Rotten Tomatoes.
“I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.”
“I was a nobody auditioning, and then I was seen as this young, emerging talent, writer, Oscar-winner, and then I was seen as this blockbuster actor, and then I was seen as this train-wreck actor, and then I was seen as this resurgent director. And now I think I’m kind of seen as just somebody in Hollywood who works.”
“I feel like fame is wasted on me.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for the detailed reply, complete with the rundown on the SM v BM conflict. Just as I rely on WH to be my box office grosses guru I regard you as my superhero Oracle to consult.
I loved the “dudes in underwear” quote. I wonder what Ben thinks of Jace taking off his shirt and if Ben saw Jace taunting the ladies with his posterior in The Meg.
I remember watching a B movie years ago in which the whole cast were young show-off ‘dudes’ who looked as if they had been recruited from Arnie’s movie Pumping Iron. In one scene, two of them stalk each other in slow motion around a hall of mirrors with their muscles gleaming in each panel of glass they passed.
It was supposed to be a thrilling confrontation but was in reality a 15 minute posing session with the guys showing off their ‘meat’ in the way that the ladies got the opportunity to show off their legs in the old musicals and western saloons in dance sequences. “See what they boys in the backroom will have!”
I laughed heartily at the antics of some of the characters in the body-vanity film Perfect starring Travolta, an underrated flick I always thought. Anyway take care.
Happy Belated birthday to Ben Affleck. Don’t see his latest movie listed.
Triple Frontier is the one movie missing. I saw that one a couple of weekends ago.
P.S. Argo, The Town, and Gone Baby Gone are all listed twice.
Ben has his ups and downs…surprisingly not the worst thing about BvS or Justice League. On to the data…
Seen: 26/45 or 57%
Favorite Top 10: Gone Girl, this movie is very good, although I refuse to watch it with my wife.
UMR Snub (Too High/Too Low): I could say BvS or Justice but Daredevil sucked way too high and The Accountant was surprisingly decent, needs to be higher.
Guilty Pleasure: Pearl Harbor, not sure if this still holds up, but I could watch it over and over as a kid.
The bar tending, drug dealing, pimp in Extract is another guilty pleasure.