Hilary Swank Movies

Hilary Swank

Want to know the best Hilary Swank movies?  How about the worst Hilary Swank movies?  Curious about Hilary Swank box office grosses or which Hilary Swank movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Hilary Swank 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 and much more.

Hilary Swank (1974-) is a two-time Best Actress Oscar® winning American actress.   Her IMDb page shows 48 acting credits since 1990.   This page ranks 19 Hilary Swank movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information.  Uncredited roles, bit parts, television roles and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  This page comes from a request from bob cox.

Hilary Swank 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 Hilary Swank movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Hilary Swank movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Hilary Swank movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Hilary Swank movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Hilary Swank movie received.
  • Sort Hilary Swank movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Hilary Swank Table

  1. Two Hilary Swank movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 10.52% of her movies listed.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) is  her biggest box office hit.
  2. An average Hilary Swank movie grosses $35.10 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  8 Hilary Swank movies are rated as good movies…or 42.10% of her movies.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) was her highest rated movie while The Next Karate Kid  (1994) was her lowest rated movie.
  4. Three Hilary Swank movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 15.780% of her movies.
  5. Two Hilary Swank movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.52% of her movies.
  6. An “a good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00.  5 Hilary Swank movies scored higher than that….or 26.31% of her movies.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while Spark: A Space Tail (2016) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Hilary Swank won two Oscars in her first eight movies…not a bad percentage at all!

Possibly Interesting Facts About Hilary Swank

1. Hilary Ann Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1974.

2.  Hilary Swank’s mom (Judy Kay) was very supportive of her daughter’s desire to act.    In 1989, Kay moved with Hilary to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until she saved enough money to rent an apartment

3.  Hilary Swank’s film debut was 1992’s Buffy the Vampire SlayerHer first lead role was in 1994’s The Next Karate Kid.

4.   Hilary Swank played single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 and was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes.

5.  After “Possibly Interesting Fact #4” Hilary Swank was devastated.   This however allowed her to audition to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in 1999’s  Boys Don’t Cry.   Swank would win her first of two Oscars® for that movie.

6. Hilary Swank replaced Sandra Bullock as Maggie Fitzgerald in 2004’s Million Dollar Baby after Bullock dropped out for other commitments.  Swank won her second Oscar® for that role.

7. Hilary Swank, Vivien Leigh, Helen Hayes and Luise Rainer are the only actresses with a perfect track record at the Oscars®: Two nominations and two wins.

8.  Hilary Swank has been married one time.   She does not have children.

Check out Hilary Swank’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.

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