Want to know the best Woody Allen movies? How about the worst Woody Allen movies? Curious about Woody Allen’s box office grosses or which Woody Allen movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Woody Allen 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.
“I am not scared of death….I just do not want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen has had lots of funny one liners over the years but that is my favorite one. His IMDb page shows almost 200 writing, directing and acting credits since 1950. This page will rank Woody Allen movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and bit parts were not included in the rankings.
Woody Allen 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 Woody Allen movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Woody Allen movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Woody Allen movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Woody Allen 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 Woody Allen movie received.
- Sort Woody Allen 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Woody Allen Table
- Seven Woody Allen movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 12.96% of his movies listed. Casino Royale (1966) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Woody Allen movie grosses $40.16 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 43 Woody Allen movies are rated as good movies…or 79.62% of his movies. Annie Hall (1977) is his highest rated movie while Casino Royale (1966) is his lowest rated movie.
- Twenty-six Woody Allen movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 48.14% of his movies.
- Eight Woody Allen movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 14.81% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 27 Woody Allen movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% of his movies. Annie Hall (1977) got the the highest UMR while Scenes From a Mall (1991) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Woody Allen
1. Allen Stuart Konigsberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935.
2. So how did Allen Stuart Konigsberg become Woody Allen? As a teenager he started to call himself Woody Allen as a homage to the clarinetist Woody Herman. At 17 he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen. So Woody is for a clarinetist….and Allen was his first name that became his last name. So using that logic….my created name would be Bruce Bruce because my first name is Bruce and as a kid Bruce Springsteen was my favorite musical artist.
3. Woody Allen’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. His first early break was when he was hired to be a writer on the Sid Caesar television show “Your Show of Shows“. He then started attracting a following as stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village. After writing the Broadway stage hit, Don’t Drink The Water…he started appearing in supporting roles in movies like What’s New Pussycat and Casino Royale. In 1969 he wrote, starred and directed Take The Money And Run. Since then he has pretty much directed a movie every year.
4. Woody Allen is a passionate fan of jazz music. Jazz music is featured in many of his movies’ soundtracks. Allen has been performing with his clarinet since the late 1960s.
5. Woody Allen does not seem too concerned about Oscars®. That does not seem to bother the Academy Award voters as he has been nominated an incredible 24 times in different Oscar® categories. Allen rarely appears at the Oscar® show. The only year he attended was in 2002 following 9/11 when he thanked Hollywood for its support of his hometown.
6. Woody Allen has been nominated 16 times for a Best Screenplay Oscar®, 7 times for a Best Director Oscar® and 1 time for a Best Actor Oscar®. He has won 4 Oscars®…1 for Best Director, Annie Hall (1977) and 3 for Best Screenplay…..Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He was won 3 Golden Globes®.
7 Fourteen actors have received Oscar® nominations for their roles in Woody Allen movies. 7 of those performances won the Academy Award®. Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977), Dianne Wiest and Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Dianne Wiest in Bullets over Broadway (1994), Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (2013).
8. Roles Woody Allen turned down or was seriously considered for: Oh God! (John Denver role), Eyes Wide Shut (Sidney Pollack role) and Stuck On You (Will Smith and Allen were originally supposed to play the twins that ended being played by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear).
9. Woody Allen was voted the 19th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. He was ranked 43rd in Empire magazine’s Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. He has the most Screenplay Oscar® nominations in the history of the Oscars®. That is not a bad trifecta!
10. Check out Woody Allen‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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1 CLARIFICATION I was not challenging your figures when I indicated that Manhattan/Annie Hall were Woody Allen’s most successful 1965-1979 hits as I meant that within an all round context. He was not the TOP star in Casino Royale or What’s New Pussycat.and Hall/Manhattan were the two most commercially successful movies where he acted wrote AND directed.
2 It goes without saying that those two movies have become critical classics in the eyes of many buffs and along with Looking for Mr Goodbar helped Diane Keaton consolidate her success from the Godpop franchise [and I was surprised you didn’t give Diane credit for Manhattan in your Woody co-star links column.]. Also by the way I am pleased that you rated Midnight in Paris No 5 for critic/audience as it is possibly my fave Allen film. On the downside along with Bud and Jerry Lewis Woody is one of the 3 stars whom my father most detested. Still apart from Joan Crawford I suppose that not every movie star is adored by everybody.
Hey Bob….this is for both Woody comments.
1. I understand your thoughts about his big hits.
2. I agree his two monster hits from the 1960s are almost by somebody else….as they do not fit the Woody Allen that everybody knows now.
3. His total of only 7 $100 million hits…pretty much backs your argument.
4. I finally saw Cafe Society.
5. Too bad Bruce and Woody did not work out….I think that would have been a good role for Bruce.
6. Like you I was doing a mental checklist of all the stars mentioned in the movie….and how many have UMR pages….I feel the % is pretty good…..but Joan Blondell and Hedy Lamaar escaped me….but other than that I was pretty happy that every star they mentioned have been covered here.
7. The man is a machine…every year….he has a new movie….though I have not heard anything about his 2017 movie….wonder if his tv show is slowing him down?
8. I agree…his quotes are everywhere…..granted those quotes are now over 30 years old…..but they have had a lasting impression.
Thanks for the feedback.
HI BRUCE
1 Well you got Woody in a movie with ONE of your idols, Sir Maurice Micklewhite and it was a top 10 commercial hit for them both in the Woody Allen chart and also a great critical success so you can’t be greedy.
2 I think that was going to be your lot anyhow as I don’t think Woody and Mae West’s ‘protege’ would have been good chemistry, do you? We used to keep my dad going by telling him that Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis were planning a movie together and the thought of it would cause him to almost froth at the mouth. Anyway have a good weekend. BOB
Hey Bob….well….it is not too late…Jerry Lewis and Woody could still make a movie…..Lewis had two new movies recently…..maybe Woody, Jerry and Adam Sandler could re-make The Three Amigos. Yep….I will always be grateful for Woody getting Caine his first Oscar….that is one of my favorite personal Oscar moments. Good stuff.