Want to know the best Dustin Hoffman movies? How about the worst Dustin Hoffman movies? Curious about Dustin Hoffman’s box office grosses or which Dustin Hoffman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Dustin Hoffman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information right here.
Dustin Hoffman (1937-) has been a movie star longer than I have been alive. That is a pretty impressive accomplishment especially when you consider that I was born in the 1960s. Over his close to fifty year movie career he has had great success both at the box office and critical acclaim.
His IMDb page shows 76 acting credits since 1961. This page will rank 52 of his movies from Best to Worst in four different sortable columns of information. Cameos, television appearances, straight to DVD movies and shorts were not included in the rankings.
Dustin Hoffman Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Dustin Hoffman 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 Dustin Hoffman movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Dustin Hoffman 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 Dustin Hoffman movie received.
- Sort Dustin Hoffman 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Dustin Hoffman Table
- Twenty of Dustin Hoffman’s movies crossed the magical $100 million mark. That is a percentage of 38.46% of his movies listed.
- An average Dustin Hoffman movie grosses $126.90 million in adjusted box office gross….his voice roles were excluded from the averages.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 35 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies are rated as good movies…or 67.30% of his movies.
- 21 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 40.38% of his movies.
- 9 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 17.30% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 26 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% of his movies.
- Dustin Hoffman has starred in 8 movies that have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar®…including 3 that wo n the Best Picture Oscar®: 1967’s The Graduate, 1969’s Midnight Cowboy it won, 1974’s Lenny, 1976’s All the President’s Men, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer it won, 1982’s Tootsie, and 1988’s Rain Man it won.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Dustin Hoffman
1. I am sure you know that Dustin Hoffman’s star making role was 1967’s The Graduate. But did you know he was already 30 years old when he played that part, and Anne Bancroft who played Mrs. Robinson was only 36?
2. Over his 45 year carerr, Dustin Hoffman has received 7 Academy Award® nominations (2 wins)….Kramer vs Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988). He has 9 Golden Globe® nominations (4 wins) for acting in movies.
3. In the 1980s, Dustin Hoffman only appeared in 4 movies. In 1982 he appeared in one of the biggest comedies ever…Tootsie. Then appeared in one of the biggest box office bombs ever….1987’s Ishtar. He rebounded in 1988 with his second Academy Award® for Best Actor in Rain Man. And finally he appeared in 1989’s Family Business.
4. Dustin Hoffman has been married twice. His first marriage was to Anne Byrne, it lasted from 1969 to 1980 and produced daughters Karina and Jenna. His second marriage is to Lisa Gottsegen, they were married in 1980 – they have four children, sons Jacob and Maxwell and daughters, Rebecca and Alexandra.
5. Dustin Hoffman is the only actor to have leading roles in three Academy Award® Best Picture winning movies Those movies are 1969’s Midnight Cowboy, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer and 1988’s Rain Man.
6. When Dustin Hoffman was a struggling actor, his roommate was none other than two time Oscar® winner Gene Hackman. It took them almost 40 years but they finally appeared together in one of Hackman’s last movies….2003’s Runaway Jury.
7. Roles Dustin Hoffman either turned down or was seriously considered for…..Blade Runner, Batman Returns(Penguin part), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gandhi, Get Shorty, The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Blade Runner, Misery, Superman (Lex Luther role) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
8. In the 1960s Dustin Hoffman used to “chase women” with Ben Affleck’s father, Tim Affleck.
9. Dustin Hoffman directed his first movie in 2013…..Quartet.
10. Check out Dustin Hoffman’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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LUPINO/STEVE/WORK HORSE
1 We have all probably been acquainted with situations where we are familiar with a person, place or thing, then we don’t come across the same for years until all of a sudden we seem to start almost tripping over the same encounter again.
2 I have always admired Dustin Hoffman and it’s is invariably a pleasure for me when for example to celebrate birthdays Bruce reminds of us the work of greats like Dustin.
3 Accordingly reading through again The Word Horse’s excellent profile of Dustin gave me the desire to look up on Wikipedia and IMDB coverage of some of Hoffman’s key movies to see how for example THEIR evaluations/ratings of those movies compared with Bruce’s critic/audience score and any other appraisals of WH.
4 When I got to the 1976 All the President’s Men I came across the following information on Wikipedia’s page on the film and I’m sure that the irony and coincidence of my discovery will not be lost on any of you:
“In All the President’s MentThe billing followed the formula of James Stewart and John Wayne in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), with Redford billed over Hoffman in the posters and trailers and Hoffman billed above Redford in the film itself.”
5 I suppose we now need to do some detailed research into who got the billing in the TRAILERS for Trail of the Lonesome Pine! Anyway WH I much enjoyed your Hoffman “resurrection” and as Dustin seemed to be a pleasant, well behaved guy I’m sorry that I can’t titillate you by recounting some “bad boy” stories as I did in Mitchum’s case!
Hey Bob….thanks for checking out today’s birthday boy. Another great reaches 80. Good information on All The President’s Men….which is one of my favorite all-time movies. DoC (Dad of Cogerson) worked at the Washington Post when all the Nixon stuff was happening….his greatest complaint of the movie? The amount of work Redford and Hoffman do out in the general reporting area….he says the reality was….they (Woodward and Bernstein) were so paranoid….that they did all of their work behind closed doors….and certainly not in the open where so many scenes show.
Happy birthday Dustin Hoffman.
HI BRUCE
1 Fascinating stuff about your dad which interests me because Watergate is one of my favourite true-life events. It also holds a certain nostalgia for me as I had just got married when it broke and my first child was on the way.
2 Not surprised W & B were paranoid as the White House apparently kept an Enemies List and even tame people like Paul Newman were on it. As I’ve mentioned before the entry against Paul’s name went something like “Trendy Liberal. Needs watching.” So I don’t think that W & B were half as paranoid as Mr President.
3 On TV over here recently they played actual extracts from the Nixon Tapes and one gets the feeling that whilst his image to the US people was one of a hard worker in their interests he seemed to spend large chunks of his time in the Oval Office ranting about his perceived enemies who were “out to get” him and when he wasn’t doing that he was planning to “get” other people.
4 One of his conversations on the tapes that I heard with Bob Haldeman always makes me laugh when I think of it. Apparently the IRS were after Dr Billy Graham a close friend of the President for back taxes and when Nixon asks Haldeman if something could not be done to get the IRS off Billy’s back and Bob tells him the IRS do their own thing and the White House cannot interfere Rixhard reluctantly accepts that but then say to Haldeman “OK But there must be a Democrat somewhere whose actually fiddling his taxes. Can we not detect one and out him?”
Hey Bob…..another memory my dad has of those events…..his fellow co-workers had an idea something big was coming….but only a handful of people at the Washington Post knew how big things were…..he had to read about it in the paper like everybody else. Which is why he would always mention how Hoffman and Redford talking with people around them was so wrong. The rest of the movie was spot on in his mind.
How he got there was pretty amazing. His previous company fired him for his support of the newspaper’s worker’s union. The union had him shipped to DC while they sued his former company for wrongful dismissal…a case that took awhile….but my dad eventually won. So for awhile my dad was leaving in the Va Beach and working about 3 hours away in DC. Amazingly his pretty short time working at the Washington Post was when all the Watergate stuff broke. Ain’t life strange.
The entire Watergate situation is endlessly fascinating. I never took the time to listen to the tapes…but it sounds like there would be lots of great stories…like the one you mention between Nixon and Haldeman. Good feedback…as always.
BRUCE
1 I’ve been trying to get this post in for some time but you’ve been throwing so much new stuff including updates at us that my posts haven’t kept pace with you until now !! so please overlook the lateness.
2 Possibly Interesting Facts above provides a stunning list of the great movies that Dustin missed out on but nonetheless he has had his fair share of marvellous movies that showcased his talent for giving top class performances. It is ironic that Dustin turned down/was seriously considered for Godpop as I distinctly remember that one reviewer in 1972 referred to the fact that the diminutive and then young-looking Al Pacino was virtually unknown but then the reviewer added “However anyone who looks a bit like Dustin Hoffman is bound to do all right.” Boy wasn’t that an understatement !
3 Some years ago Dustin wrote a forward to a historical book about movies and listed some of the actors whom he admired; but concluded that no forward by him would be complete without reference to an actor who had greatly inspired every actor of Dustin’s generation. The person to whom Dustin was referring was one whom Steve Lensman has recently hailed as historically attracting the idolisation of young actors.
4 My favourite Hoffman movies are Outbreak, Marathon Man Tootsie, Straw Dogs, All the President’s Men and of course The Graduate. I remember reading an article in which a historian criticised what he saw as the snobbishness connected with the English acting profession because of its theatrical tradition and the fact that so many of its great actors/actresses had been knighted etc. The historian went on to emphasise that the greatest of American artists were as good as the best of the English greats For my money in holding his own with the brilliant Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) Dustin proved that point.
Best Wishes BOB
Hey Bob.
1. No problem….before I did these posts….nobody knew when I updated a page.
2. I think at his peak…Hoffman was pretty picky about which movies he would make….which is probably why he made so few movies in the 1980s. That reviewer got that one right for sure.
3. See….Steve makes good points….lol.
4. I like your favorite Dustin movies….but of those…All The President’s Men is my favorite….it was one of my Top 50 movies back in 1988…and would still be on the list in 2016….it is a great movie.
5. I actually re-watched Marathon Man a few months ago…the acting is good….but I found the story to be lacking on my most recent viewing…and the dentist scene did not seem nearly as horrific as I remembered.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mr. Hoffman
1 Robert Redford must have had some element of production control over All the President’s Men because I can remember his being interviewed when it came out in 1976 and he took credit for Dustin being in it and for “giving Dustin’s career a renewed boost.” I’m sure that in the long run the Hoffman career would not have needed much assistance to keep his career on track.
2 Given who Robert’s most iconic screen partner was it It was somewhat ironic that Bob was in All the President’s Men because it was revealed during the Watergate scandals that the Watergate Burglars had a secret political “Enemies list” and high up on it was the entry “Paul Newman – trendy but dangerous.”!
3 I took the grandchildren yesterday to see the latest version of Pete’s Dragon and to some extent I was sad to see a very old Robert Redford in an undemanding role in a children’s film in which he played 4th fiddle to a dragon and a couple of kids . However I suppose the positive side is that after a film career that began with an uncredited role in Jane Fonda’s Tall Story way back in 1960 he’s still making movies and probably lending his name to that film was lucrative enough for him; and initially the film seems to be OK box office taking over $76 million worldwide in 17 s days – any long-term projections?
3 Anyway down through the years both Robert and Dustin have given us much entertainment.
BOB
Hey Bob.
1. Redford has a lot to do with the making and success of All The President’s Men…he bought the rights to the story almost immediately. He pretty much put the entire movie together….at the point he was the biggest star in Hollywood….so he had lots of clout for sure.
2. Interesting about Newman being….”trendy but dangerous”.
3. I think Pete’s Dragon will top off around $70 million in North America….and maybe that overseas…..so I think it will be in the $130 to $140 range….but since it is Disney….they will gets lots of mileage out of that movie for sure. I need to add that movie to Redford’s page….my work is never done….lol.
4. I agree 100% with comment #3
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Just finished watching The Graduate on TCM as part of the evening of guest programmer. odd how as you age your sympathies change to the older characters.
Every time you re-watch a classic….it changes….but it is not the movie that changes it is the view from your eyes that change…..lol.
RUNAWAY JURY one of t=his worst movies showing his support for gun control oviously worst
Hey Bird of Paradise….thanks for checking out my Dustin Hoffman hub…..I thought Runaway Jury was ok…but I am a huge John Cusack fan….although it was cool seeing Hoffman and Hackman in the same movie….thanks for stopping by.
Cogerson – awesome page. You are just the BOMB (yes, I just said the Bomb) at making these movie charts. I have to say that I really do like Dustin Hoffman, favorite having to be Kung Fu Panda! 🙂
Hey kittythedreamer…thanks for great compliment..it is greatly appreciated. Kung Fu Panda is a part of my house…my little girl loves the movie and loves playing the game on XBox 360. Thanks for checking out my Dustin Hoffman page.