Want to know the best Bruce Dern movies? How about the worst Bruce Dern movies? Curious about Bruce Dern box office grosses or which Bruce Dern movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bruce Dern movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Bruce Dern (1936-) has had a wonderful movie career. Some Dern career highlights? He is a two Oscar® nominated actor. He has been in two Alfred Hitchcock movies. He shot John Wayne in the back in The Cowboys (1972). He was one of Tom Hanks’ crazy neighbors in The “Burbs (1986). He has worked with Jack Nicholson five times. His second ever movie starred Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland….just to name a few. Dern’s IMDb page shows 148 acting credits since 1960. This page will rank 56 Bruce Dern movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Drivel Part: (That is what my wife calls this part of the page). This weekend we have house guests. We have our granddaughter (Natalie) and daughter-in-law (Abby) from Alaska and my son’s mother-in-law (Erin) from New Mexico staying with us as they attend a family wedding in Virginia. Some how I got into a conversation with Erin about our website. Erin said …”Do you have a page on Bruce Dern?”. Well 6 hours ago when she poised that question the answer was no….but now the answer is yes!
Bruce Dern Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Bruce Dern 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 Bruce Dern movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Bruce Dern movies by adjusted actual box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort Bruce Dern movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Bruce Dern movies by either yearly domestic box office rank or trivia for that movie
- Sort Bruce Dern 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 Bruce Dern movie received.
- Sort Bruce Dern 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.
- Use the search and sort buttons to make this page very interactive.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Bruce Dern Table
- Eight Bruce Dern movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 14.03% of his movies listed. Django Unchained (2012) is his biggest hit.
- An average Bruce Dern movie grosses $44.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 29 of Bruce Dern’s movies are rated as good movies…or 50.87% of his movies. Django Unchained (2012) is his highest rated movie while The Haunting (1999) is his lowest rated movie.
- Eight Bruce Dern movie received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 14.03% of his movies.
- Six Bruce Dern movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.52% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking Score is 60.00. 20 Bruce Dern movies scored higher than that average….or 35.08% of his movies. Django Unchained (2012)) got the the highest UMR Score while The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Bruce Dern
1. Bruce Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois.
2. Bruce Dern’s grandfather was George Dern. George Dern was a former Governor of Utah & President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s first Secretary of War.
3. Bruce Dern is an alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh B. O’Brien, Virginia Madsen and Ann-Margret.
4. Bruce Dern has been nominated for two acting Oscars®. Dern earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1978’s Coming Home and a Best Actor nomination for 2013’s Nebraska.
5. Bruce Dern has been nominated for three acting Golden Globes®. Dern has earned two Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1974’s The Great Gatsby and 1978’s Coming Home and a Best Actor nomination for 2013’s Nebraska.
6. When Bruce Dern shot John Wayne in the back in 1972’s The Cowboys….Dern received death threats.
7. Bruce Dern has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: Coming Home (1978), Django Unchained (2012) and Nebraska (2013). Will The Hateful Eight join this list?
8. Bruce Dern has been married three times. His second marriage was to actress, Diane Ladd. They had two children. Their youngest child is actress, Laura “Jurassic Park” Dern.
9. Bruce Dern Is one of two actors to appear in movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. Rod Taylor is the other actor.
10. Check out Bruce Dern‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Hi, Bruce.
I have seen enough on Bruce Dern to comment although there is no point in me listing my total by ranking as the ones I have seen are all over the place.
Yes, working twice with Hitchcock is impressive. I prefer Family Plot to Marnie.
My favourite Dern movie is by far Support Your Local Sheriff. Although I enjoyed the sequel to it Support Your Local Gunfighter, I did not enjoy it as much. One reason may well be that Bruce Dern wasn’t in it.
Cheers,
Flora
Hey Flora….thanks for checking out my Dern page. Dern has made a nice career as a supporting actor. I prefer Family Plot to Marnie too. Dern was very funny in Support Your Local Sheriff. Dern was on a radio show the other day and he was sharing some funny Hitchcock and Nicholson stories. I imagine he has lots of stories to tell from his 50 plus year movie career. As always…greatly appreciate you stopping by.
This is awesome! I love Bruce Dern and now I have a whole list of movies to watch. Also, thanks to you and Debbie for putting us up. You’ll note I put movie passes in your thank you card. 🙂 Maybe you’ll use them on the new Bruce Dern movie…. It was a whirlwind weekend, but it was great to see you guys. Come visit New Mexico! Thanks again.
Hey Erin. Glad you liked your requested Bruce Dern page. Glad you stayed with us. It was a short but fun visit. I will be updating this Dern page as soon as The Hateful Eight opens up. Debbie was seeing how far Hollywood was from New Mexico….so we might be taking you up on your offer.
Whoa a lot more movies than I was expecting, Dern is a busy actor. One of the earliest films I remember him in was as James Garner’s prisoner in Support your Local Sheriff, where he was kept in an unfinished jail without bars or doors.
I liked him as the slightly mad spaceman determined to take good care of the domed forests in his spaceship in the classic sci-fi Silent Running.
I also liked him in Hitchcock’s last film, Family Plot. Hated him in The Cowboys. 🙂
I’ve seen… 16 of the 56 films you’ve listed, not impressive. I’ve seen Django Rides Again, sorry Django Unchained, but I haven’t seen Nebraska, Coming Home or They Shoot Horses Don’t They. A nice tribute to Bruce, Bruce. Voted Up.
Hey Steve. Dern has been indeed a very busy actor. This list does not include about 30 more movies that went straight to home entertainment. I figured Silent Running would be one of the ones you liked. Dern was very good in that one…..playing a guy who liked his plants more than his fellow crew members. Working with Hitchcock twice is pretty impressive…though his role in Family Plot was much bigger and important than his brief role in Marnie. I think everybody hated him in The Cowboys…though he said some Democrats in San Francisco loved him….lol. My tally is ….counting…32 Dern movies watched or 57.14% of the movies listed. As always thanks for stopping by and talking movies
I’ve enjoyed his movies for years.
Hey 234Cal….the man has been making movies for 55 years….and he stars in one of the biggest movies of the 2015 Xmas season….The Hateful Eight…that is a sign of a great career.!
Dern made and makes a great villian. I saw him shot the Duke in the back. I was so mad! But sending the man death threats is just crazy.
Hey Ian S. I agree with you 100%. Dern was a great villain. And yes it was crazy that people sent him death threats. Dern had a sense of humor about that at least. Thanks for stopping by.