David Fincher Movies

David Fincher has quietly become one of the most successful directors working today.

David Fincher has quietly become one of the most successful directors working today.

Want to know the best David Fincher movies?  How about the worst David Fincher movies?  Curious about David Fincher’s box office grosses or which David Fincher movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which David Fincher 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.

David Fincher (1962-) has been nominated two times for a Best Director Oscar®.  That is pretty impressive when you realize he has only directed 10 movies.  Fincher seems to be going with the thought process of “Quality vs Quantity”.  That thought process is working well for Fincher….as most of his movies have gotten stellar reviews and since 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button all of his movies have been box office hits.  

His IMDb page shows 26 directing credits from 1984-2015. This page will rank 10 David Fincher movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, videos and documentaries were not included in the rankings.

David Fincher's The Social Network is ranked as his best movie.

David Fincher’s The Social Network is ranked as his best movie.

David Fincher Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

David Fincher 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 David Fincher movies by the stars of his movies.
  • Sort David Fincher movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort David Fincher movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort David Fincher 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 David Fincher movie received.
  • Sort David Fincher 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 David Fincher Table

  1. Seven David Fincher movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 70.00% of his movies listed. Se7en (1995) is his biggest hit.
  2. An average David Fincher movie grosses $117.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  9 of David Fincher’s movies are rated as good movies…or 60.00% of his movies.  The Social Network (2010) is his highest rated movie while Alien 3 (1992) was his lowest rated movie.
  4. Seven David Fincher movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 70.00% of his movies.
  5. Three David Fincher movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 30.00% of his movies.
  6. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking Score is 39.86.  10 David Fincher movies scored higher than that average….or 100.00% of his movies.  The Social Network (2010) got the the highest UMR Score while Alien 3 (1992) got the lowest UMR Score.
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in 1999's Fight Club.

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in 1999’s Fight Club.

Ok the elephant in the room. We can hear people all over the world screaming at their computers, I-Pads and smart phones…..”Fight Club ranked 8th of 10 Fincher movies?….are they out of their minds?…don’t they know that IMDb has Fight Club ranked 10th of ALL movies ever made?”  So even though the first and second rules of Fight Club are not to talk about Fight Club…I am choosing to break those rules and talk about Fight Club.

The rankings in this page are not personal preferences.  The rankings are based on the statistics a movie earned when the movie was in theaters.  There are three main statistical groups: box office grosses, reviews and awards.  Fight Club performed the best in the review category….but critics and audiences still rate Fight Club as Fincher’s 4th best movie.   When looking at the award category….Fight Club only earned one Oscar® nomination (sound effects) and no other major awards or nominations….sorry we do not think a MTV “Best Fight” nomination falls in the major awards category.  That gets us to box office grosses.  Of the 10 Fincher movies…Fight Club sits in 9th place….only Zodiac earned less money at the box office.

Put all of those stats together and you see 7 Fincher movies performed better statistically than Fight Club.  We like Fight Club and think it is a good movie….and a movie that begs for repeat viewings…..just statistically it is Fincher’s 8th best movie.  So invoking rule #7 of Fight Club…..”Fights will go on as long as they have to”…..we stand by our rankings and we are ready for challengers.

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