Want to know the best Ben Kingsley movies? How about the worst Ben Kingsley movies? Curious about Ben Kingsley box office grosses or which Ben Kingsley movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ben Kingsley movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Ben Kingsley (1943-) is an Oscar®-winning English actor. Although his acting career started in the mid 1960s it was not until he appeared in his first leading role in the early 1980s that he gained famed. Granted that first movie was 1982’s Gandhi….which won the Best Picture Oscar® as well as a Best Actor Oscar® for Kingsley. His IMDb page shows over 140 acting credits since 1966. This page will rank Ben Kingsley movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings. This was a request from yesteryear…from Hinton66 back in our Hub Page days.
Ben Kingsley Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ben Kingsley 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 Kingsley movies his co-stars
- Sort Ben Kingsley movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ben Kingsley movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Ben Kingsley 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 Kingsley movie received.
- Sort Ben Kingsley 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 Kingsley
1. Krishna Bhanji was born in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire in 1943.
2. Ben Kingsley took his stage name from his father’s nickname of “Benji” and his paternal grandfather’s nickname of “King Cloves”
3. Ben Kingsley has been nominated for 4 Oscars®. Besides his Best Actor Oscar® win for 1982’s Gandhi….he picked up nominations for: 1991’s Bugsy, 2000’s Sexy Beast and 2003’s House of Sand and Fog.
4. Speaking of Gandhi….in the movie, Gandhi, Ben Kingsley played Mohandas K. Gandhi between the ages of 23 (in 1893) and 78 (in 1948). Not as impressive as Dustin Hoffman’s 104 age span in 1970’s Little Big Man….but still impressive.
5. Ben Kingsley has been married four times. He has 4 children.
6. One of Ben Kingsley’s fondest memories? Watching his father go hysterical while viewing Danny Kaye as a car salesman in 1954’s Knock on Wood. After that his father often jokingly referred to him as the “Danny Kaye of the Family”.
7. Ben Kingsley has worked with eight directors who have won a Best Director Oscar®: Sir Richard Attenborough, Barry Levinson, Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, William Friedkin, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese and Robert Zemeckis.
8. Ben Kingsley has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: 1982’s Gandhi, 1991’s Bugsy, 1993’s Schindler’s List and 2011’s Hugo.
9. The highs and lows of Ben Kingsley at UMR.com. We currently have ranked 33,102 movies. Kingsley’s Schlinder’s List is ranked as the 4th best movie (that was the high). If you movie down 33,099 spots in our database you will find Kingsley’s BloodRayne…which is ranked as the 8th worst movie that we have ranked (that was the low). That is an UMR record….and one that will be hard to break.
10. Check out Ben Kingsley‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Ben Kingsley is the # 1 most connected actor of the 2010’s and the # 39 most connected of the 2000’s.
I count 31 Oscar winners That Ben has worked with;
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) – William Hurt, Meryl Streep, Robin Williams
Betrayal (1983) – Jeromy Irons
Collide (2017) – Anthony Hopkins
Dave (1993) – Kevin Kline
Elegy (2008) – Penelope Cruz
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) – Christian Bale
Gandhi (1982) – John Gielgud, John Mills, Daniel Day-Lewis
House of Sand and Fog (2003) – Jennifer Connelly
Iron Man 3 (2013) – Gwyneth Paltrow
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) – Morgan Freeman
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) – Robin Williams
Pascali’s Island (1988) – Helen Mirren
Romeo Juliet (1990) – Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith
Rules of Engagement (2000) – Tommy Lee Jones
Shutter Island (2010) – Leonardo Dicaprio
Slipstream (1989) – F. Murray Abraham
Sneakers (1992) – Sidney Poitier
Spooky House (2002) – Mercedes Ruehl
Stonehearst Asylum (2014) – Michael Caine
The Jungle Book (2016) – Christopher Walken, Lupita Nyong’o
The Last Legion (2007) – Colin Firth
The Triumph of Love (2001) – Mira Sorvino
Tuck Everlasting (2002) – William Hurt, Sissy Spacek
Turtle Diary (1985) – Glenda Jackson
War Inc. (2008) – Marisa Tomei
What Planet are You From (2000) – Octavia Spencer
Without a Clue (1988) – Michael Caine
Ben currently ranks #30 on the current Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the films where he has appeared with someone who ranks higher than him on the list.
Bloodrayne (2005) – 2 Michael Madsen, 13 Udo Kier
Bugsy (1991) – 5 Harvey Keitel
Elegy (2008) – 27 Dennis Hopper
Gandhi (1982) – 11 Martin Sheen
Iron Man 3 (2013) – 14 Joseph Oliveira
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) – 12 Morgan Freeman, 18 Bruce Willis
Romeo Juliet (1990) – 23 John Hurt
Rules of Engagement (2000) – 4 Samuel L. Jackson
Schindler’s List (1993) – 16 Liam Neeson
Shutter Island (2010) – 20 Max Von Sydow
Species (1995) – 2 Michael Madsen
Stonehearst Asylum (2014) – 10 Michael Caine ( a good sleeper movie)
The Assignment (1997) – 9 Donald Sutherland
The Jungle Book (2016) – 28 Christopher Walken
Una vita scellerata (1990) – 20 Max Von Sydow
Without a Clue (1988) – 10 Michael Caine
Hey Dan.
1. Wow….Sir Ben is that high on the list……that is surprising.
2. I would say 31 is less than average for a person with a plus 100 IMDb credit career.
3. So in looking at the Top 30 you listed….I now have UMR pages on 9 of them (10 counting DeNiro)…almost 33%….not too bad….not thinking I will ever do a Danny Trejo page….but you never know….maybe if Machette Kills in Space is massive….that tune will change.
4. I agree with you about Stonehearst Asylum…..a good sleeper movie….surprised it never saw theaters in North America…Kingsley is very good in the movie.
5. As always…thanks for sharing this information….it is greatly appreciated.
Hi
I once met Ben Kingsley in London coming out of a theatre. I was a bit starstruck and I congratulated him on Gandhi. Afterwards I felt really bad, how many times have people mentioned Gandhi to him?!
The fact he has appeared in many movies especially Schindler’s List and Bugsy, and yet Gandhi is one he’ll be remembered for the most. Nevertheless he is a fantastic character actor. I don’t think he was interested in stardom and don’t think he’ll ever be out of a job.
Hey Chris….very cool that you have gotten to meet Sir Ben. I would not be too concerned about bringing up Gandhi with him versus another of his movies. When I meet Richard Dreyfuss I thought it would be cool to mention Tin Men versus Jaws and Close Encounters…..the others around me brought up those two movies and Dreyfuss seemed more interested in talking about his bigger hits than his minor ones. It might have been the same way with him….either way….cool experience for sure.
I agree…the man will never be out of a job. Sometimes when I see him in a movie…I see Robin Williams….can you see that too? As always…thanks for the feedback.
Great start to his career. Seems he is almost in every movie made. I did not realize he was in his 70s.
Hey Helakoski….I think bald actors age the best…as the hair does not give away their age to easily. I agree he seems to be in everything….his Collide opens today. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Krishna Bhanji has been busy hasn’t he? 57 films since Gandhi is impressive.
Kingsley is a good reliable actor and charismatic too which is why he’s always working.
I’ve seen 32 of the 57 films listed, lots of favorites here including – Gandhi, Bugsy, Species, Iron Man 3, Sneakers, Hugo, The Jungle Book, Ender’s Game and Sexy Beast (Kingsley hilarious as a nasty and offensive gangster).
Schindler’s List is one of Spielberg’s greatest movies but it’s not a film I watch often and therefore not a favorite.
I haven’t seen Death and the Maiden or House of Sand and Fog.
Dev Patel recently and now Ben Kingsley, two UK-born actors of Indian heritage. Good work Bruce. Voted Up!
Hey Steve.
1. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
2. I have seen 37 of his movies…so I have you by 5 movies. My 37 represents about 65% of his movies.
3. Actually surprised I have seen so many of his movies.
4. As for your favorites….I have seen all of them except for Species….plus I was not a huge of Ender’s Game…I think that possible franchise did not take off.
5. House of Sand and Fog is good but just brutally to watch….and ends on a horribly depressing note. *Spoiler alert….let’s just say he has at least one thing in common with his character in Lucky Number Slevin.
6. I agree with you 100%….Schlindler’s List is not one I want to re-watch.
7. Glad you like our recent UK-born actors of Indian heritage pages