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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Hey BRUCE BRUCE – interesting about Woody Allen films. I am not keen on him and his acting but another job well done. THANKS…
Hey thanks for checking out my latest….especially since you are not a big fan of his work. So based on his rules for creating a name….I guess your name would become….Judy Elsie…Judy for Garland…Elsie for your first name. Hope your day goes well Judy Elsie.
“My brain? That’s my second favorite organ.” Woody Allen finally gets the moviescore treatment. Not really a fan but I have managed to see 14 of the 52 films you’ve listed. I only have one of his films on blu-ray, Casino Royale. The only Woody Allen film I saw at the cinema was Antz, I enjoyed his voice acting in that one, Woody and the slightly larger Sylvester Stallone made a good team. Recent films I’ve enjoyed include Match Point and Midnight in Paris. As a big Star Wars fan I’ve always hated Annie Hall, you can guess why. 🙂 Top marks Bruce.
Hey Steve….14 Woody Allen movies for you….I actually triple your total…and have 3 movies to spare….as my tally is at 45….not sure that happens very often in our tally counts. Casino Royale is a huge mess of a movie….the power of James Bond in the 1960s even made that movie a huge box office hit. I liked Match Point as well….Midnight in Paris is a good one too…..but the next time I watch it…I am going to have my I-Pad so I can look up all the artistic references that went flying over my head the first time. I guess you feel the same way about Annie Hall…that I feel about Chariots of Fire….both of those movies robbed are favorite movies when it comes to the Best Picture Oscar. As always your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
That’s one heel of a job you have done there! Congratulations, that’s a fantastic tabulation and gives us a great sense of how Woody’s movies are received by the society at large. I am very happy to say that I have managed to watch each one of his movies. Annie Hall, Deconstructing Harry, Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine are personal favourites. Perhaps one of those extremely rare combinations of quality and quantity.
Hey Pratyay…Glad you liked it. I would like to think that there is nothing like this on the whole internet. I have not seen all of the movies on the table like you have….but I have seen 45 of the 52. Every time I write a page there is always a movie that moves up to the top of my must watch list. In this case it is Deconstructing Harry. I am not sure how that one escaped me. My Top 5 would be Take The Money And Run, Play It Again Sam, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters and Zelig. The only one that I really did not like was Interiors. I found that to be a brutally long boring movie….I will never watch that one again. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Hey Trent. Thanks for such a quick response. Deconstructing Harry is actually one of the few Woody Allen movies that I have not seen. I have never seen a DVD copy anywhere for me to buy, rent or borrow so I can watch it. I need to figure out a way to finally see it. Plus it is one of the few Robin Williams movies that I have not seen…..that is not acceptable….lol. Maybe I will join your small club when I finally see Deconstructing Harry. Thanks for the visit.
The 1st Woody Allen film I saw was Deconstructing Harry. I loved the surreal nature of it. This page has me thinking it is time to watch it again. Looking at your rankings it seems that I am in a small club of people that like Deconstructing Harry.