Want to know the best Mark Wahlberg movies? How about the worst Mark Wahlberg movies? Curious about Mark Wahlberg’s box office grosses or which Mark Wahlberg movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Mark Wahlberg movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
When Mark Wahlberg (1971-) was becoming famous as “Marky Mark” the rapper…..who would have thought he would become one of the most influential players in Hollywood? Well that is what has happened. Wahlberg has become one of the biggest box office draws working, has produced Oscar® nominated films, and is involved in some of the best shows on television. He has been nominated for two Oscars® …..one for his performance in The Departed and one for producing The Fighter.
His IMDb page shows over 65 acting credits since 1993. This page will rank Mark Wahlberg movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Mark Wahlberg Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Mark Wahlberg 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 Mark Wahlberg’s co-stars of his movies
- Sort Mark Wahlberg movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Mark Wahlberg movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Mark Wahlberg 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 Mark Wahlberg movie received.
- Sort Mark Wahlberg 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.
Mark Wahlberg Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Mark Wahlberg
1. Mark Wahlberg was born in Boston and was the youngest of nine children.
2. Mark Wahlberg had some issues with the police in his youth….he even spent 45 days in jail…..but that turned out to be motivation to improve his life. Wahlberg has been married one time and has 4 children.
3. Mark Wahlberg was originally a member of New Kids on the Block, but left the band before they had their big break. He later found fame as the rapper “Marky Mark”.
4. Penny Marshall was the first director to cast Wahlberg in a movie role….1994’s Renaissance Man.
5. As successful as Mark Wahlberg has been at acting….his older brother, Donnie, has the family bragging rights for appearing in the biggest box office hit of their careers. Mark’s top grossing movie in worldwide adjusted for inflation dollars is Ted at $547 million. Donnie played Vincent Grey in The Sixth Sense….The Sixth Sense’s worldwide adjusted for inflation box office dollars is 1.05 billion….though Transformers IV could change that fact.
6. On September 11th 2001, Mark Wahlberg and several friends were due to take flight United 93 from his native Boston to Los Angeles. At the last moment, they decided to hire a charter flight to a film festival in Toronto. United Airlines flight 93 went on to crash in a Pennsylvania field as passengers fought to overpower four Al-Qaeda hijackers who intended to use the plane to attack Washington DC.
7. Mark Wahlberg turned down or was seriously considered for the following roles: Brokeback Mountain, Ocean’s Eleven, Feast, S.W.A.T., Cinderella Man, Infamous, and Pride and Glory.
8. Mark Wahlberg has executive produced three of the better HBO shows…..Boardwalk Empire, In Treatment and Entourage, Entourage is partly based on his experiences in Hollywood.
9. Mark Wahlberg is friends with Leonardo DiCaprio. They have appeared in two movies together….1995’s The Basketball Diaries and 2006’s The Departed. Completely unrelated fact….Wahlberg has a tattoo of Bob Marley on his right shoulder.
10. For more information on Mark Wahlberg check out this awesome Wahlberg site….http://markwahlberg.org/
Steve Lensman’s Mark Wahlberg You Tube Video
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Added Steve’s latest You Tube video to the page. Our thoughts on the video and Mark’s movies.
Good new video. I have seen 38 of the movies listed here. 39 overall. Favorites would include The Fighter (#4), Invincible (#9), Deep Water Horizo (#8), The Other Guys (#16) and The Big Hit (#28). His Transformer movies are horrible…thankfully he is done making those movies. I thought he was pretty good in Fear (#31)….an intense bad guy in that one. As for his number one movie….The Departed. I need to re-watch that one….especially since so many people love that one…..and I was “meh” on my first and only viewing. Voted up and shared.
Hi Bruce, your 38 beats my 31, Flora has seen 2 – Boogie Nights and The Perfect Storm.
The Departed is enjoyable, a great cast of actors, but it’s not among Scorsese’s greatest achievements in my opinion. But it’s well worth another look.
Yes it’s true I’m a fan of those ‘horrible’ Transformer films. You should hear how loud I put them thru my home theater system. [Bruce shakes head]
Thanks for the comment, vote and share, it is appreciated.
I have always tended to confuse Mark Wahlberg with Matt Damon. It may be that Mark and Matt have a similar ring to them, and names like Wahlberg, Damon and Cogerson are not the most common at times. Special people deserve special names of course– take for example a unique one like “Joel Damon or Joel Demon”
Anyway old habits die hard because when I looked at your video catalogue around tea-time yesterday and saw Mark was the last actor flagged up I thought “I’ve already commented on him.” I was again confusing Mark with Matt and was ready to go to bed when I realised my mistake. The confusion is also par for the course in a way because I have only ever seen one Walberg movie: The Basketball Diaries, of which DiCaprio was the main star.
Bruce’s book of 50 Greatest Stars totally ignores Mark as does WH’s 25’s Greatest Male Legends 1950-2010: not even an honorary mention, etc. However his diverse careers as an actor, rapper and model have generated him a net worth of a whopping $300 million, making him one of the very richest movie stars ever to exist on this planet; and IMDB credits him with 21 acting awards and 72 nominations. His appearance in 2001’s Planet of the Apes may well have made him a fave of yours!
Also, what Mark has missed out on in Cogerson love elsewhere he makes up for to a degree with good box office figures on this page in the stats table above. 15 of his movies crossed the Cogerson magical $100 million prestige line for adjusted US grosses and his Top 25 global hits grossed worldwide a total of 6.6 billion in adjusted dollars, a respectable average of $265 per movie.
BEST POSTERS WAHLBERG VIDEO
1/two for The Happening 2/set for Max Payne 3/two for Planet of the Apes 4/2nd one for The gambler 5/1st one for The Corruptor 6/foreign language one for The Yards 7/Fear 8/Rock Star 9/two for The Perfect Storm 10/set for Pain and Gain 11/ foreign language one for The Departed.
12/ The Lovely Bones 13/The Basketball Diaries 14/Two Guns 15/two for The Other Guys 16/ Two for Shooter 17/two for All the Money in the World 18/two for Invincible 19/two for Deepwater Horizon 20/Lone Survivor 21/1st one for Three Kings .
BEST STILLS
1/Max Payne 2/The perfect Storm 3/Date Night 4/Pain & Gain 5/Contraband 6/The Basketball Diaries 7/ Two Guns 8/The Other guys 9/Four Brothers 10/We own the Night – one quite raunchy 11/two for The Italian Job 12/Invincible 13/Lone Survivor 14/Boogie Nights 15/The Departed.
PLUS: All posters and stills for The Transformer films are also among my favourites – riveting stuff! There is in fact lots of magical art-work in this video for my money, and my scores add up to a 98.5% rating. You and Bruce agree on 4 of Mark’s Top 6 best reviewed movies. Among your top 6 he least agrees with you on Lone Survivor, which you have at No 5 and he at No 13. I am not going to attempt to break the tie having said in Part One that I have seen only Basketball Diaries among Mark’s flicks, but as always your presentations ideally complement each other and from 2 sets of ratings we can benefit from a spread to some extent of opinions about the movies reviewed.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Mark Wahlberg video. I very much appreciate the generous rating, info, stats, trivia and comparison.
Glad you enjoyed the picture gallery.
Ex-rapper and ex-model Mark Wahlberg aka Marky Mark surprised everyone when the Oscar nominations were announced 12 years ago and he was the only actor nominated for Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, a film which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Jack Nicholson.
On my movie forum I used to refer to Wahlberg as ‘the frowner’, which would tick off some of his female fans, but I’m not exaggerating he does look like he frowns a lot, even on the posters.
Two films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Boogie Nights and The Fighter. One scored 9 – The Departed. Six more scored 8 out of 10.
Wahlberg on David Beckham – “I’m not telling Beckham to take his family home. I’m just not sure why he came to America in the first place. Man, we don’t want your soccer. There’s no way Americans are going to buy the idea of 90 minutes of running around without much happening. Thanks for trying guys, but we’ll stick to baseball and basketball.”
Wahlberg on The Departed – “Marty and I were constantly in this struggle. I had problems with Marty. He was “I’m Martin Scorsese… da-dee-da.” He was pushing me in different ways. But it wasn’t just Marty. The whole time I was in the character so I was mad at everybody. It was Leo, Matt and Jack. F**k Jack too. We were able to laugh about it afterwards and we have a great relationship now and we’re going to do other stuff in the future.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for feedback.
Some very interesting trivia from you via a number of quotes. I appreciate you sharing it
I agree with Steve…good stuff Bob. Thanks for sharing this information.
Hey Steve…I can imagine you cranking up the volume on the Transformer movies….I do give Michael Bay credit….he knows how to make quality movies when looking at aspects behind the movie….if only he could have stories that match those qualities. Good stuff.
2 Guns (2013) – 361 Denzel Washington, 406 Ritchie Montgomery, 525 Robert James Burke, 698 James Marsden, 916 John McConnell
Boogie Nights (1997) – 34 Alfred Molina, 84 Philip Baker Hall, 93 Luis Guzman, 96 Burt Reynolds, 175 Julianne Moore, 177 William H. Macy, 218 John C. Reilly, 223 Greg Bronson, 263 Heather Graham, 266 Don Cheadle, 291 Philip Seymour Hoffman, 659 Allan Graf, 752 Jorge Cayne, 990 Thomas Jane
Broken City (2013) – 154 Elton LeBlanc, 221 Cynthia LeBlanc, 344 Russell Crowe, 384 Naeem Uzimann, 516 Jeffrey Wright, 540 Griffin Dunne, 838 Catherine Zeta-Jones, 915 J.D.Evermore
Contraband (2012) – 167 J.K. Simmons, 371 Giovanni Ribisi, 406 Ritchie Montgomery, 510 Lukas Haas, 954 Lance E. Nichols
Daddy’s Home (2015) – 221 Cynthia LeBlanc, 484 Will Ferrell, 797 Bobby Cannavale, 850 Jesse Yarborough, 902 Patrick Kearns
Date Night (2010) – 68 Ray Liotta, 111 James Franco, 250 William Fichtner, 311 Mark Ruffalo, 583 Paul Thornton, 680 John Cenatiempo
Deepwater Horizon (2016) – 22 John Malkovich, 357 Kurt Russell, 850 Jesse Yarborough, 902 Patrick Kearns
Entourage (2015) – 16 Liam Neeson, 69 Martin Landau, 131 Gary Busey, 193 Billy Bob Thornton, 208 Richard Schiff, 239 Jeremy Piven, 411 Jon Favreau, 480 Judy Greer, 485 Debi Mazar, 648 David Arquette, 729 Alan D. Purwin, 783 Nora Dunn, 844 Mindy Robinson, 870 Kelsey Grammer, 969 Frederick Keeve
Fear (1996) – 444 Rana Morrison, 999 Reese Witherspoon
Four Brothers (2005) – 539 Terrence Howard, 877 Chiwetel Ejifor
I Heart Huckabees (2004) – 124 Richard Jenkins, 129 Naomi Watts, 155 Dustin Hoffman, 224 Kevin Dunn, 273 Bob Gunton, 333 John Rothman, 374 Jude Law, 678 Jonah Hill, 824 Isabelle Huppert, 890 Jason Schwartzman
Invincible (2006) – 70 Mark Falvo, 390 Jack Kehler, 543 Lynn Cohen, 581 Elizabeth Banks, 713 Robert Bizek, 754 Greg Kinnear, 757 Charles Pendleton, 867 David Pearl, 941 Michael Rispoli
Lone Survivor (2013) – 169 Sergio Kato
Max Payne (2008) – 533 Donal Logue, 677 Beau Bridges
Mojave (2015) – 929 Walton Goggins, 946 Oscar Isaac
Pain & Gain (2013) – 52 Peter Stormare, 294 Anthony Mackie, 493 Tony Shaloub, 844 Mindy Robinson, 852 Dwayne Johnson, 939 Jeff Chase, 941 Michael Rispoli
Planet of the Apes (2001) – 53 Paul Giamatti, 128 Tim Roth, 136 Kris Kristofferson, 247 Charlton Heston, 286 Chris Ellis, 309 David Warner, 370 Cory-Hiroyuki Tagawa, 397 Martin Klebba, 524 Nils Allen Stewart, 535 Erick Avari, 707 Helena Bonham Carter, 741 Michael Clarke Duncan, 863 Deep Roy, 943 Philip Tan
Renaissance Man (1994) – 132 Ed Begley Jr., 152 James Remar, 162 Danny Devito, 875 Jenifer Lewis, 914 Cliff Robertson
Rock Star (2001) – 296 Beth Grant, 358 Jason Flemyng, 422 Michael Shamus Wiles, 588 Timothy Spall
Shooter (2007) – 39 Danny Glover, 159 Rade Serbedzija, 197 Elias Koteas, 225 Ned Beatty, 379 Michael Pena
Ted (2012) – 371 Giovanni Ribisi, 383 Rosemary Howard, 703 John Franchi, 790 Patrick Warburton, 844 Mindy Robinson, 893 Ryan Reynolds, 935 Bill Smitrovich
Ted 2 (2015) – 12 Morgan Freeman, 14 Joseph Oliveiri, 16 Liam Neeson, 281 Slim Khezri, 302 David Boston, 371 Giovanni Ribisi, 398 Patrick Stewart, 603 Jay Leno, 703 John Franchi, 714 John Carroll Lynch, 790 Patrick Warburton, 796 Dennis Haysbert, 862 John Slattery
The Basketball Diaries (1995) – 195 Vincent Pastore, 362 Leonardo Dicaprio, 373 Ernie Hudson, 549 Juliette Lewis, 723 Michael Rapaport, 837 Michael Imperioli
The Big Hit (1998) – 58 Elliott Gould, 922 Lou Diamond Phillips
The Corrupter (1999) – 56 Brian Cox
The Departed (2006) – 11 Martin Sheen, 14 Joseph Oliveiri, 46 Matt Damon, 70 Mark Falvo, 76 Alec Baldwin, 204 Kevin Corrigan, 302 David Boston, 362 Leonardo Dicaprio, 491 Jack Nicholson, 591 Ray Winstone, 654 John Farrer, 680 John Cenatiempo, 703 John Franchi, 916 John McConnell
The Fighter (2010) – 14 Joseph Oliveiri, 70 Mark Falvo, 104 Christian Bale, 117 Jack McGee, 330 Melissa Leo, 547 Amy Adams, 691 Joseph Basile, 703 John Franchi
The Gambler (2014) – 36 John Goodman, 313 George Kennedy, 278 Simon Rhee, 281 Slim Khezri, 856 Domenick Lombardozzi, 984 Michael Kenneth Williams, 1000 Leland Orser
The Happening (2008) – 60 John Leguizamo, 713 Robert Bizik, 757 Charles Pendleton, 913 Frank Collison, 997 Brian Anthony Wilson
The Italian Job (2003) – 9 Donald Sutherland, 278 Simon Rhee, 450 Jason Statham, 451 Charlize Theron, 565 John H. Tobin, 630 Seth Green, 737 Edward Norton, 930 Olek Krupa
The Lovely Bones (2009) – 45 Stanley Tucci, 66 Susan Sarandon, 506 Rachel Weisz, 713 Robert Bizik, 837 Michael Imperioli
The Other Guys (2010) – 302 David Boston, 383 Rosmeary Howard, 384 Naeem Uzimann, 484 Will Ferrell, 528 Josef Sommer, 583 Paul Thornton, 621 Steven Weisz, 654 John Farrar, 666 Michael Keaton, 780 Steve Coogan, 797 Bobby Cannavale, 852 Dwayne Johnson, 928 Bill Walters
The Perfect Storm (2000) – 95 Michael Ironside, 107 Christopher McDonald, 188 George Clooney, 218 John C. Reilly, 250 William Fichtner, 273 Bob Gunton, 337 Diane Lane, 381 John Hawkes
The Truth About Charlie (2002) – 255 Tim Robbins, 507 Ted Levine, 945 Thandie Newton
The Yards (2000) – 43 James Caan, 134 Faye Dunaway, 419 Ellen Burstyn, 451 Charlize Theron, 555 Tomas Milan, 590 Victor Argo, 856 Domenick Lombardozzi
Three Kings (1999) – 188 George Clooney, 270 Doug Jones, 480 Judy Greer, 589 Holt McCallany, 783 Nora Dunn, 936 Mykelti Williamson, 938 Jose Rosete
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – 25 Richard Riehle, 36 John Goodman, 45 Stanley Tucci, 138 Diezel Ramos, 481 Thomas Lennon, 870 Kelsey Grammer
Traveller (1997) – 24 Rance Howard, 300 Bill Paxton, 407 Robert Peters, 570 James Gammon
We Own the Night (2007) – 71 Robert Duvall, 334 Paul Herman, 582 Antoni Corone, 713 Robert Bizak
Boogie Nights (1997) – 456 Jack Riley
Four Brothers (1995) – 955 Kenneth Welsh
The Basketball Diaries (1995) – 722 Bruno Kirby, 728 Josh Mostel
The Corrupter (1999) – 900 Kim Chan, 983 Beau Starr
The Gambler (2014) – 831 Jessica Lange
Denzel Washington, Julianne Moore, Phil Seymour Hoffman, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, J.K. Simmons, Martin Landau, Reese Witherspoon, Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Cliff Robertson, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo Dicaprio, Jack Nicholson, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Jessica Lange, George Kennedy, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, George Clooney, Tim Robbins, Faye Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn, Robert Duvall 26
Okay testing . Top list for Mr. Wahlberg is every co-star currently on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. Mark is currently #295 and was not on the list in 2000. @nd list is people he has appeared with who have fallen off the original list followed by 26 Oscar winners he has worked with. Sorry for this but it didn’t stay after 3 attempts to post (though a shorter comment went up). Also have switched carriers from Verizon to Time Warner and am having problems with TW.
Hey Dan…you are correct….that is a long list for sure.
Hey Dan….very cool so Wahlberg is at 295th….I am thinking based on how popular he is….and how many movies he is generating…that he will be steadily moving up the rankings.
Current list: Wow Entourage is loaded with people….too bad the movie was so bad. Rance Howard is 24th? Not sure I realized that….but I actually like that…..a few years ago…I was adding up the combined credits of Ron, Clint and Rance…and I was shocked that Rance easily outdistanced the two sons. Mojave? Never heard of that one…and yet I see it earned some money at the box office….so based on my rules…I need to add that one to the page….thanks for the additional work….lol. I see the Departed is also loaded.
Oscar list: 26 Oscar winners is pretty good….though his career is probably at the halfway mark. I recently read that when he first got the script for Deepwater Horizon….they said they wanted to do a young guy old guy story…..Wahlberg….said…great I will contact some of the older actors I know….like Nicholson and Freeman…..and they said….no..”We were thinking you could play the old guy part”. That had to make Wahlberg think…lol.
Glad it looks like your internet changeover worked….thanks of the comment….and information.
Only 71 million dollars for Deep Water Horizon???? That seems low; I saw the movie in a packed house on Sunday and everybody loved it. Fear is awesome. Marky Mark was truly scary in that one.
Hey Vance….unless it has great “legs”….$71 million might be a reach. I also enjoyed it….but my theater was only about half full. I agree that Fear is pretty good….he has not played the bad guy much…but he was very believable in that role. Thanks for the visit and the comment.