Want to know the best Charlize Theron movies? How about the worst Charlize Theron movies? Curious about Charlize Theron’s box office grosses or which Charlize Theron movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Charlize Theron movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
After writing over 120 hubs on HubPages.com, this is my first movie page done for my very own web site. It comes from a suggestion from one of my wife’s co-workers who really likes Charlize Theron. The co-worker was shocked that I had not done a page on her. So to rectify that injustice, here you go a page….. that looks at the movie career of Charlize Theron.
Charlize Theron (1975-) is an Academy Award® winning actress who has appeared in over 30 movies since 1996. How she got her start in the movie business, actually sounds like a story from the 1930s. She moved to Los Angeles in 1993 at the age of 19. Despite not knowing anyone in the city, she was discovered standing in line at a bank on Hollywood Boulevard by an agent that gave her his card. This occurred after only two weeks of her arrival. After eight months in Los Angeles, she got her first part. By 1997 she was one of the most sought after actresses working. Sounds like the “legend” of how Lana Turner was discovered while sitting at a drug store counter.
Her IMDb page shows over 65 acting credits since 1995. This page will rank Charlize Theron 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.
Charlize Theron Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Charlize Theron Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Charlize Theron movies by her co-stars
- Sort Charlize Theron movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Charlize Theron movies by domestic box office rank by year
- Sort Charlize Theron movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Charlize Theron 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 Charlize Theron movie received.
- Sort Charlize Theron 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 Charlize Theron
1. Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, South Africa on August 7th, 1975. At the age of 15, her father was lawfully killed by her mother with a firearm. It was ruled as self-defense as her father was an abusive alcoholic who was threatening Charlize and her mother at the time of his death.
2. Her first language is Afrikaans. English is her second language. She always speaks Afrikaans with her mother, who lives 2 minutes from her in L.A. They have matching fish tattoos.
3. The path to Hollywood. First 16 years of her life she lived in South Africa. At 16 she got some modeling jobs in Italy. At 17 she moved to New York City to attend Joffrey Ballet School. A dancing injury ended her dancing career. At 19 moved to Los Angeles. Movie Star at 22.
4. Charlize Theron has been nominated for two Best Actress Oscars®. She won for Monster (2003) and was nominated for North Country (2005). She has three Golden Globe® nominations for her movie roles. She won for Monster and got nominations for North Country and Young Adult (2011). She also got a Golden Globe® for her television movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
5. Roles Charlize Theron passed on or was seriously considered for: Pearl Harbor, Moulin Rouge, Showgirls, Mercy, J. Edgar, and Atlas Shrugged Part 1.
6. Charlize Theron has never been married. She did adopt her son, Jackson, in March 2012.
7. When she won her Oscar® for Monster, she was the toast of South Africa. One of her highlights was meeting former South African President Nelson Mandela. She is the second South African-born person to win an Academy Award®. The South African-born cinematographer Ted Moore was the first.
8. Has her own charity called the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, which is committed to reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and sexual violence among African youth.
9. Her very first film she watched was Splash (1984). She fell in love with Tom Hanks and became jealous of Darryl Hannah while watching the movie. Hanks is still her favorite actor 30 years later. Not thinking she is still jealous though, especially after she appeared in the Tom Hanks directed movie That Thing That You Do!
10 Her role in Monster is one of the screen’s greatest transformations ever. She gained 30 pounds for the role and was almost unrecognizable in the role. A well deserved Oscar® win for her.
Check out Charlize Theron‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Charlize Theron You Tube Video
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Overall I have seen 34 of her movies…my page has 7 more movies ranked. Off the 35 shown in the video I have seen 30 of them. Favorites would be #2 Kubo…this animated movie also really impressed my kids…it was “add to DVD collection” when they saw it the first time. #15 Two Days In The Valley….a Quentin ripoff…but I like it. #31 Gringo…I know I am in the minority…but this one surprised me. #4 The Devil’s Advocate…..good thriller….good cast….like to rewatch it regularly. As for her Oscar winning movie…Monster (#5)….well done….great Charlize performance….but a one and done movie for me. Mad Max Fury Road (#1)….great action…but wish it had a little more story. Good selection…I will be sure to share this video on our website and with people I work with that love Ms. Theron. Voted up and shared.
Steve’s video is now on the page.
Hi Bruce, thanks for commenting on my Charlize Theron video, appreciate the vote and share.
30 out of 35 is pretty impressive, I’ve seen 20, Flora 1 – The Cider House Rules.
I haven’t seen Monster but I have read about it. Mad Max was pure action, not much talking, surprised everyone when it was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, Best Director too.
Best POSTERS in your video are in my opinion 1/The Road 2/Monster 3/first one for Mad Max 4/Last Face 5/two for Aeon Flux 6/Mighty Joel Young 7/Sleepwalking 8/two for Huntsman Winter’s War 9/Trapped 10/Snow White 11/ Atomic Blonde 12/Tully 13/Fate of Furious set 14/Prometheus set.
My pick of the STILLS in the video are 1/ with Depp 2/kicking butt! 3/the first of you bedroom scenes [Reindeer Games] 4/Million Ways to Die—–5/Joel Young among the cars – stupendous! 6/Snow White 7/two with Keanu 8/Atomic Blonde 9/Bagger Vance 10/The Italian Job 11/Cider House Rules [but where’s Sir Maurice?] 12/Mad Max 13/To the best of my recollection the raciest photoplay that I’ve seen yet in any of your videos [2 Days in the Valley] -do scenes like that combined with your opening quote from Charlize entitle her to be dubbed “Raunch Queen of Modern Actresses?
Almost perfect and very hard to cut down my selections to reasonable lengths so 99% rated. You and Bruce agree on 4 of Charlize’s top 6 best reviewed movies.
I hope you’re enjoying your weekend – but don’t be wasting it glued to repeats of old Columbo episodes. Who wants to keep watching THEM? However one would need to be going some to match the number of times that Howard Hughes is supposed to have watched The Duke’s Jet Pilot; or the frequency with which England’s greatest wartime leader apparently viewed One Hundred Men and a Girl in which “Little Miss Fix-it” secured employment for an entire orchestra of out-of-work musicians. Anyway try something different yourself – might I recommend 1981’s Zorro the Gay blade and 1993’s Robin Hood Men in Tights?
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and stats, it is appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters and stills.
Poor Charlize had to play ugly and evil to win that Oscar. I still haven’t seen Monster but I’ve seen clips and I’ve read about the real life events on wikipedia.
Earlier today someone commented on my channel, angry that Monster isn’t no.1 on the video since it was her best performance. I had to explain for the umpteenth time that the movies were rated not the performances. I’m not Joel Hirschhorn who has seen every film of every actor and rated each performance. Life is too short.
Only one film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Cider House Rules – I watched that film recently, good performances but overrated IMO. Did Caine really deserve an Oscar for playing an ether-addicted abortionist? He was barely in the film. They should have given the Supporting Oscar to the little kid from The Sixth Sense.
Charlize on growing up in South Africa – “I can remember, we’d have to travel an hour to the nearest drive-in cinema, and we’d go and never really knew what was playing. But once you got there, it was an hour’s drive back, so you may as well watch whatever it was. I was about eight or nine and Fatal Attraction was playing and mom didn’t want to turn all the way around, so she was like, “Well, this is as good a way for you to learn as any”.
This was my last video for a while. I need an extended break. But I’ll be back. ‘The world shall hear from me again’ as Dr. Fu Manchu would say.
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback including additional information and quote.
I would never dare say on this site that Sir Maurice didn’t deserve an award – even if I thought it! I see that whilst he has as you say a small role in the movie and is actually billed 5th, WH bills him first in the table above and ignores the movie’s top star Tobey Maguire, who I think used to play one of your super idols. I bet you that all of the cinemas that are within The Work Horse’s vicinity bill Sir Maurice first all the time – indeed have come to regard Sir M as almost a “local boy”!
Like you I have never seen Monster and in fact the movie that I most remember Charlize for [althoughit is c**p in my opinion – 47% rating from WH and a slightly better 55 % from you] is The Astronaut’s Wife because I saw it during my 3 week visit to the US in 1999, so it has nostalgic memories for me.
I hope you enjoy your break and I look forward to your return. I go off myself to France for 10 days on 29 July.
IMDB credits Charlize with 61 acting awards and 110 nominations and she has a reported net worth of $130 million. Bruce ranks her 25th in his list of the 25 Greatest Actress Legends in the 60 year period 1950-2010.
For some reason WH no longer includes with his stats tables, that very helpful “ready reckoner” facility that he used to, so I have to do my own manual calculations at times. No doubt if I get it wrong he’ll take delight in rubbing my nose in it with a Spencer Tracy-type put-down “Don’t YOU try to out-stats ME!” My figures suggest that Charlize’s domestic box office was not vertiginous and that her foreign grosses were far healthier. For the 35 films for which we have been given global grosses -an excellent number out of the 42 listed-the breakdown is as follows in slightly rounded figures-
Overall adjusted worldwide gross $5.6 billion
Average per movie $160 million
Total adjusted domestic gross $2.2 billion
Average per movie $62.8 million
Overall adjusted foreign gross $3.4 billion
Average $97.2 million
Overall ratio domestic 39.3% foreign 60.7%
The healthier foreign grosses are largely due to the 5 of YOUR BELOVED superhero/action/sci-fi movies that head Bruce’s worldwide grosses column [three cheers for them!] especially The Rock’s one billion dollar + monster grosser. Charlize’s 30 other movies in that 35 seem to be almost evenly split between 52% domestic/48% foreign – a slight advantage for domestic.
Hey Bob and Steve
1. Good to see the two of you back on “friendly terms”
2. I will make sure to view, comment and share Steve’s Wednesday and Friday You Tube videos when we get home tomorrow night….we are actually only home for about 20 hours before we head out again.
3. Good stats from Bob on Charlize.
4. For awhile it looked like Charlize was going to beat the curse of 39….but after her monster hit “superhero/action/sci-fi movies”…her movies have under performed ….movies like Atomic Blonde and Long Shot…..but maybe she can bounce back….she has a voice in The Addams Family….and that looks like it is going to be 2019 Holiday blockbuster.
5. Hey Steve….I hope you enjoy your latest break…..good quote from Dr. Fu Manchu.
6. I hope your Theron video does well….she has been one of our more popular pages….she was the first Cogerson Movie Score page (our 2nd and failed website).
Good feedback from the both of you.
HI BRUCE 1 My keyboard still finds it difficult to get round the name of Charlize Theron first time as it once did Cogerson and more recently Hirschhorn!
2 We must hope that as a bottom line anyway your WW gross projection is correct because one of the unfair aspects of human nature is that we often want to see someone who already has a lot get more and Charlize was always one sexy lady with a fine acting range which earned her multiple Golden Globe/Oscar nominations and a win of both for Monster.
3 However her box office was seldom great until 5 years ago when since 2012 she has been in a string of large commercial hits as your table, comprehensive and up-to-date as usual, illustrates – Fate of the Furious, Mad Max: Fury Road, Snow White & The Huntsman, Prometheus and Huntsman: Winter’s War which whilst a low grosser in the states did well worldwide.
4 The versatile Charlize has 16 production credits to her name including Monster and Atomic Blonde and she claims that her commercial success in recent times paved the way for the coming to fruition of Atomic Blonde which she has spent 5 years developing. I like James McEvoy too so it’s good to see him as Charlize’s co-star.
5 Humorously when I first heard of Atomic Blonde I thought it was a biography of Debbie Harry the blonde lead singer in the rock group Blondie whose period of initial success was from 1974-82 and who had a big hit with the song Atomic. Indeed Debbie Harry may well have been in Theron’s mind when she developed her movie because with her blonde hair she looks like Debbie in the posters and I understand that the music in the film is 1980s music and the film is set in the 1980s [the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989] though Debbie’s Atomic is NOT in the soundtrack. Anyway helpful of you to keep these pages updated Bruce.
Fabulous. I love this Woman. Complete in Strength. But still vulnerable