Want to know the best John Goodman movies? How about the worst John Goodman movies? Curious about John Goodman’s box office grosses or which John Goodman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which John Goodman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
John Goodman (1952-) is an American actor. He first gained fame for playing Dan Connor on the television show, Rosanne, from 1988 to 1997. Over the last 30 years he has become of the busiest and best character actors working in movies. His IMDb page shows an incredible 145 acting credits since 1983. This page will rank 75 John Goodman movies. Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: This John Goodman page comes from a request by Dan. When researching this page I was very surprised to see that 1984’s C.H.U.D. was one of his movie credits (no memory of his part at all). C.H.U.D. is a movie me and my sons have always enjoyed even though it is a truly horrible movie. Never heard of C.H.U.D.?…well maybe if I tell you that it stands for “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller” might help. Still not helping? Well just know it was a proud day when we were finally able to include C.H.U.D. on our movie website.
John Goodman 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 John Goodman movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort John Goodman movies by actual domestic box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort John Goodman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort John Goodman movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort John Goodman 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 John Goodman movie received.
- Sort John Goodman 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 John Goodman Table
- Fifteen John Goodman movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 20.00% of his movies listed. Monsters Inc. (2001) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average John Goodman movie grosses $58.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 35 of John Goodman’s movies are rated as good movies…or 50.00% of his movies. Monsters Inc. (2001) is his highest rated movie while The Flintstones (1994) is his lowest rated movie.
- Thirteen John Goodman movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 18.57% of his movies.
- Three John Goodman movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 4.28% of his movies.
- An good Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 24 John Goodman movie scored higher that average….or 33.33% of his movies. Monsters Inc. (2001) got the the highest UMR Score while Masked and Anonymous (2003) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About John Goodman
- John Stephen Goodman was born in Affton, Missouri in 1952.
2. John Goodman earned a football scholarship to Missouri State University. After an injury ended his college football career, Goodman, left Missouri and headed to New York City with the hopes of becoming an actor in 1975. By 1983 he was appearing in movies…and the rest is history.
3. John Goodman has appeared in 6 Joel & Ethan Coen Movies: 1987’s Raising Arizona, 1991’s Barton Fink, 1994’s The Hudsucker Proxy, 1998’s The Big Lebowski, 2000’s O’Brother, Where Art Thou? and 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis.
4. John Goodman has never been nominated for an Oscar®….but he does have a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1991’s Barton Fink. He did receive 4 more Golden Globe® nominations for the television show Roseanne…he won the Golden Globe® in 1993.
5. John Goodman has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: 2011’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2011’s The Artist and 2012’s Argo. The Artist and Argo won the Oscar® for Best Picture.
6. John Goodman and Bruce Willis are very good friends…yet despite over 140 movies between them…they have never appeared in a movie together. Goodman did however appear on an episode of Willis’ television show, Moonlighting, in 1987.
7. John Goodman is one of the favorite hosts on Saturday Night Live. He has hosted the show 11 times.
8. John Goodman has been married one time. He has been married to Annabeth Hartzog since 1989. They have one child.
9. John Goodman has worked with 8 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar®: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Barry Levinson, Michel Hazanavicius, and Robert Zemeckis.
10. Check out John Goodman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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John Goodman, is the # 51 most connectible actor of the 2000’s, and the # 52 most connectible of the 2010’s.
Makes sense to me. Just checked our database….we have 7 of his movies in our database. Hope you track down Argo in the near future.
Popular John Goodman gets his movie page. What was the first film I saw him in.. let me think… it must have been Always, or Sea of Love, which came out first?
I’ve seen 36 of the 70 films listed, I must have beaten Bruce’s tally let me check… damn it, lost again. My fault for watching the same 1000 films over and over again in rotation. 🙂
Favorites include – Arachnophobia, Sea of Love, Monsters Inc, The Big Lebowski (not one of Bruce’s favorites) Speed Racer and the sublime Transformers Dawn of Extinction, or is it Age of the Fallen? I can never remember these titles.
Movies I’ve not yet seen – Inside Llewyn Davis, Punchline and Beyond the Sea.
Most recent Goodman movie I’ve seen was 10 Cloverfield Lane, which was interesting but not a great movie, Goodman was very good in that though. I also saw Trumbo, I liked it because I knew about Dalton Trumbo and the communist witchhunts, but again not a great movie.
Good work as always Bruce. Voted Up.
Hey Steve.
1. Raising Arizona was the first movie I noticed him in….but looking at the movies listed here…I had already seen him in 4 other movies before seeing that one…hard to believe that I never noticed him.
2. Tally count…me 42….Steve 36….actually pretty close…Flora 5…..pretty soon you will be able to sing our National Anthem….lol. Don’t worry there is a Robert Taylor page in which you will destroy my total.
3. Yep…no matter how many times I watch The Big Lebowski….it just does not register with me….but Goodman’s character is actually pretty good in that one…..crazy as hell…but pretty good.
4. Punchline is ok at best…..Inside Llewyn Davis was also pretty average….I have not seen Beyond the Sea.
5. Thanks for the mini-review on 10 Cloverfield Lane….glad to know that Goodman is good in that one….though not surprising at all….when is he not good in a movie.
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