Want to know the best Top 100 Westerns movies? How about the worst Top 100 Westerns movies? Curious about Top 50 Westerns box office grosses or which Top 100 Westerns movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Top 100 Westerns movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information…and a lot more.
Over the years we have received many requests to do Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) pages on genres. Besides writing a Sports Movie page many years ago we had pretty much ignored those requests until just a few months ago. Why you wonder? We will tell you….they are very very difficult to put together (we know, get us some tissue). People write entire books on the genres…while we are confined to one web page. Recently we wrote pages on Film Noir and Musical Movies. Both were very popular pages. They were so popular that Wife of Cogerson said….”You know people seem to really like the genre pages…maybe you should do more of them”. So taking her advice we went to our request Hotline and saw that Chris had requested a Western movie page. Very quickly we realized that movie makers have been making hundreds and hundreds of Westerns for over a 100 years. So we came up with some rules for this page.
Rules for this page: (1) No musical westerns were included in the page. So if you are looking for Rose Marie or Rhythm on the Range…you will not find them here. (2) No westerns that take place in modern time of their production were included….that kicked out movies like Brokeback Mountain, Bad Day At Black Rock and The Misfits (all of these movies were listed on lots of Great Western Movie lists). (3) Comedy westerns were included….we went back and forth on this one….but in the end….the comedies made the page. (4) We actually set up two pages for these genre. On this page you will get our Top 100 Westerns based on critic and audience ratings. On the second page you will get every single Western (over 250 movies) in our database…..those movies are ranked by UMR Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Top 100 Westerns 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 Top 100 Westerns movies by the stars of the movies
- Sort Top 100 Westerns movies by adjusted adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Top 100 Westerns movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Top 100 Westerns 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 Top 100 Westerns movie received.
- Sort Top 100 Westerns movies critic audience rating…we start with the 100th place movie and work our way down to the Top Western
Want more western movie information….then check out our even bigger movie page which has almost ever Western movie in our database. Ranking 252 Westerns.
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Where is Red River? That was a great film.
Hey Dave….I agree it is a great movie. It is sitting in 30th place….one spot behind Stagecoach…and one spot ahead of Seven Men From Now.
To me, The Number 1 Western is The Searchers (1956)
Hey Carlos…… The Searchers is a classic without a doubt. Easily one of Wayne’s greatest roles. I appreciate you visiting our newest page.
You damn right it is and next should be Lonesome Dove
Hey Anonymous ….good to see that The Searchers has such solid support….as well as Lonesome Dove. Thanks for the comment.
What happened to Red River and all the Tom Selleck Westerns? Monte Walsh with Selleck, Last Stand at Sabre River with Selleck, Crossfire Creek with Selleck?
Hey Louise……Red River sits in 30th place…..which is pretty good. As for the Selleck westerns….we only looked at movies that reached theaters. His westerns are very entertaining…..but got excluded because they were made for television. Thanks for the comment.
Job well done. Looks like a pretty detailed list. Glad to see John Wayne well represented.
Hey Levinthal…..thank you….Wayne pretty much owned this page with 17 movies in the top 100. Astaire owned the musical page….and Wayne this page.
Interesting list!
Thank you Carol.