Want to know the best Samuel L. Jackson movies? How about the worst Samuel L. Jackson movies? Curious about Samuel L. Jackson’s box office grosses or which Samuel L. Jackson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Samuel L. Jackson 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.
Samuel L. Jackson (1948-) is an Oscar® nominated American actor. Goodness gracious has he been busy since 1988…as he has appeared in 91 movies that were released in theaters. When we got a request to do a movie page on Jackson, we had know idea that it would turn out to the page that ended up with the most movies for one performer. Jackson pushed aside Michael Caine and Robert DeNiro to be able to make that claim.
His IMDb page shows over 190 credits since 1972. This page ranks Samuel L. Jackson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos, shorts, video games and movies not released in North America and many of his movies that barely made a dent at the box office were not included in the rankings.
Samuel L. Jackson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Samuel L. Jackson 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 Samuel L. Jackson movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Samuel L. Jackson movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Samuel L. Jackson movie won.
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Samuel L. Jacksonl Table
- Twenty-five Samuel L. Jackson movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 26.04% of his movies listed. Jurassic Park (1993) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Samuel L. Jackson movie grosses $94.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 54 Samuel L. Jackson movies are rated as good movies…or 56.25% of his movies. Pulp Fiction (1994) is his highest rated movie while Twisted (2004) is his lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Samuel L. Jackson movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 18.75% of his movies.
- Seven Samuel L. Jackson movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 7.29% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 43 Samuel L. Jackson movies scored higher that average….or 44.79 of his movies. Pulp Fiction (1994) got the the highest UMR Score while The Return of Superfly (1990) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Samuel L. Jackson
1. Samuel L. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2. Samuel L. Jackson has been nominated for 1 Oscar®….he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1994.
3. Samuel L. Jackson has been nominated for 4 Golden Globes….he was nominated for 1994’s Pulp Fiction, 1996’s A Time To Kill and 1997’s Jackie Brown. His 4th nomination was for a television movie: 1994’s Against the Wall.
4. Samuel L. Jackson has been married to LaTanya Richardson since 1980…..they have one child.
5. Sameul L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino have worked together on 6 movies.
6. Sameul L. Jackson and Spike Lee have worked together on 6 movies.
7. Samuel L. Jackson has the rare distinction of having played characters that have been eaten by both a shark and a dinosaur.
8. Samuel L. Jackson rates very high on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time tables.
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Samuel L. Jackson, is the # 1 most connected actor of the 1990’s, the # 2 most connected of the 2000’s and the # 11 most connected of the 2010’s.
Saw this news story earlier, a Spider-Man movie poster blunder has Nick Fury with an eye patch on the wrong eye and Sam Jackson was not amused – you can see the two posters in the link below –
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/samuel-l-jackson-not-pleased-error-spider-man-far-home-poster-1220538
Hi Bruce, nearly missed your comment. You just beat my tally, I saw 42 of the 50. I’m sure I’ve seen a bunch more from your expanded UMR chart. Not sure why I left Fresh out, must have just slipped thru the net, sorry about that, it wasn’t intentional, I swear your honor! 😉
I left out some of Jackson’s briefer Nick Fury roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He should appear at least twice more as the character next year, Captain Marvel and probably a guest appearance in Infinity War 2. Thanks again for the comment, vote and share, much appreciated.
Epic video. SLJ has over 100 movies ranked at UMR….so far the only actor that can make that claim…but DeNiro and Caine are closing in on that mark too. I have seen 43 of the movies listed here and 79 of the 103 listed at UMR. Favorites would include…#1 Pulp Fiction…all-time classic. #15 Unbreakable…looking forward to Glass. #7 The Kingsman…part 3 is coming. #16 Coach Carter and Fresh (not listed…why why why?). I of course also like him as Nick Fury….but that is the same performance in almost single movie. Another one that I found interesting is Meet Evil….a low budget movie that is surprisingly good. Nice video. Voted up and shared.
Steve’s video has been added to the page. Our thoughts on his video.