Julie Andrews Movies

Julie Andrews in 1964’s Mary Poppins

Want to know the best Julie Andrews movies?  How about the worst Julie Andrews movies?  Curious about Julie Andrews box office grosses or which Julie Andrews movie picked up the most Oscar nominations? Need to know which Julie Andrews movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information and more.

When it is time to pick out the next subject for one of our movie pages we do two things.  The first thing we do is look at our Request Hotline page.  The second thing we do is try to figure out how much work will be required to write and publish that page.  Thankfully as our database has grown over the years, it generally has been easier to write a movie page.  Nowadays about 50% of the latest subject’s movies are already done and need no further research.  Well….when looking at the career of Julie Andrews (1935-) we saw that we had an amazing 85% of her movies already in our database and only needed to research 4 movies.  So given the fact that a few people had requested an Andrews page and that almost all the work was done….we decided to do a Julie Andrews Ultimate Movie Rankings page.

Julie Andrews is an English film and stage actress, singer, author, theater director and dancer.  During her entertainment career she has won an Oscar®,  a BAFTA, five Golden Globes®, three Grammys®, two Emmys®, the Disney Legend honor and the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2000, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.  Andrews has not one but two iconic movie roles….1964’s Mary Poppins and 1965’s The Sound of Music.  50 plus years later and both of those movie performances are still talked about today!

Her IMDb page shows over 48 acting credits since 1949. This page will rank Julie Andrews movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  Cameos and television roles were not included in the rankings.  Her numerous voice only roles have been given their own separate table.

Julie Andrews in 1965's The Sound of Music

Julie Andrews in 1965’s The Sound of Music

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

Julie Andrews 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 any way you want.

  • Sort Julie Andrews movies by co-stars of her movies.
  • Sort Julie Andrews movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Julie Andrews movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Julie Andrews 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 Oscar® wins each Julie Andrews movie received and won.
  • Sort Julie Andrews 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 button to make this page very interactive.

Julie Andrews Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

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Julie Andrews provided the voice of Queen in three Shrek movies

Possibly Interesting Facts About Julie Andrews

1. Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on 1 October 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.  Her last name of Andrews comes from her step-father.

2. Julie Andrews rise to stardom..Cliff Notes style.  Started performing as a child in music halls.  At 19, she made her Broadway debut in The Boyfriend.  Had huge success on the stage playing the lead in My Fair Lady and being featured in the television musical Cinderella.  Audrey Hepburn replaced her when My Fair Lady was turned into a movie because Andrews did not have box office drawing power.  Walt Disney then offered Andrews the lead role in Mary Poppins (1964).  Andrews would win an Oscar® playing the “perfect nanny”.  In 1965, she starred in one of the biggest box office hits of all-time…1965’s The Sound of Music.  She has been a star ever since!

3.  Julie Andrews has been nominated for 3 Best Actress Oscar® nominations.  She won for 1964’s Mary Poppins.  She got nominations for 1965’s The Sound of Music and 1982’s Victor/Victoria.

4.  Julie Andrews has been nominated for 9 Best Actress Golden Globe® nominations….or 42.85% of all of her live action movie roles.  3 won three times….Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria.

5.  Julie Andrews starred in the biggest box office hits of the year three years in row.  Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Hawaii (1966).  Poor Hawaii a movie that hardly ever gets mentioned.

6.  Julie Andrews’ The Sound of Music is the 3rd biggest hit of all-time when looking at adjusted box office grosses.  Gone With The Wind (1939) and Star Wars (1977) are the only two movies in history to sell more movie tickets.

7.  Julie Andrews was married two times.  Her first marriage was to Oscar® winning set designer Tony Walton from 1959 to 1967….they had one child…actress Emma Walton.  She was married to director Blake Edwards from 1969 to his death in 2010…..they had two children.

8.  Julie Andrews appeared uncredited in two Pink Panther movies.  In 1976 she provided a singing voice in The Pink Panther Strikes Back.  In 1982 she appeared as Charwoman in The Trail of the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther movies were directed by her husband Blake Edwards.

9.  In 2002, Julie Andrews was ranked number 59 in the BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

10.  Roles Julie Andrews turned down or was seriously considered for:  Angela Lansbury parts in Beauty and the Beast and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Liza Minnelli role in Cabaret, Barbra Streisand part in Hello Dolly!, Maggie Smith’s Oscar® winning role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,  Audrey Hepburn role in Wait Until Dark, Petula Clark‘s roles in Finian’s Rainbow and “Good-bye, Mr. Chips and roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Oliver and Camelot.

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

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