Want to know the best Mel Brooks movies? How about the worst Mel Brooks movies? Curious about Mel Brooks box office grosses or which Mel Brooks movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Mel Brooks movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Mel Brooks (1926-) is an American Oscar®-winning writer, actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer and songwriter. His IMDb page shows over 50 acting credits since 1961. This page will rank Mel Brooks movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles, cameos, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings. Overall Mel Brooks has over 350 IMDb credits…the earliest was in 1949.
Drivel Part Of The Page: The other day I was reading the tributes to the late Garry Marshall who passed away on Tuesday. One of the condolence celebrity tweets I read was from Mel Brooks. That got me to think about three things: (1) Wow…..Mel Brooks is on Twitter! (2) I hope when I am 90 I am on top of the latest technological advancements like he is and (3) I should do a UMR page on Mel Brooks. So I decided to listen to myself….and here is a Mel Brooks UMR page.
Mel Brooks Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Mel Brooks 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 Mel Brooks movies by his co-stars
- Sort Mel Brooks movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Mel Brooks movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Mel Brooks 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 Mel Brooks movie received.
- Sort Mel Brooks movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Mel Brooks
1. Melvin James Kaminsky was born on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. After regularly getting being confused with the Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky….he took the name “Mel Brooks” as his stage name. His mother’s maiden was Brookman.
2. Mel Brooks was a corporal in the United States Army during World War II. He defused land mines.
3. Mel Brooks big break was being hired by Sid Caesar as a writer for the television show, Your Show Of Shows. Neil Simon and Carl Reiner were also on that writing staff.
4. Two of Mel Brooks’ movies are still listed in the Top 125 Biggest Box Office Hits (Adjusted) of All-Time: 1974’s Blazing Saddles is 51st and 1974’s Young Frankenstein is 124th. Now that is a good year.
5. Mel Brooks has been nominated for 3 Oscars®. He won a Best Screenplay Oscar® for 1967’s The Producers. He received two Golden Globe® acting nominations: 1976’s Silent Movie and 1977’s High Anxiety.
6. Mel Brooks’ favorite two movies are 1937’s La Grande Illusion and 1948’s Bicycle Thieves.
7. In 1982’s My Favorite Year the character of Benjamin Stone was based on Mel Brooks, while Alan Swann was based on Errol Flynn. Peter O’Toole got a much deserved Oscar® nomination for playing Swann in that movie.
8. Mel Brooks was married twice. He had three children with his first wife. His second marriage was to Oscar® winning actress, Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005. They had one son…Emmy® winner Max Brooks.
9. Mel Brooks was considered for the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in 1978’s Halloween.
10. Best friends with Carl Reiner. Both of them widowers, they hang out and watch movies together every night. I bet there are stories shared in that room.
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Love your work. You have two Mel Brooks movies listed twice.
Happy 93rd birthday to Mel Brooks!
Hey Flora….thanks for the Mel Brooks birthday wishes….WoC and were talking in the car about birthdays ….and she was telling me Mel and John Cusack were born yesterday….and now…I read your comment. Great minds thinking alike.