Want to know the best Woody Harrelson movies? How about the worst Woody Harrelson movies? Curious about Woody Harrelson’s box office grosses or which Woody Harrelson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Woody Harrelson 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.
My oldest son has been requesting a Woody Harrelson (1961-) movie page for awhile now. Since one of his previous requests (Pixar vs DreamWorks) turned out to be one of my most popular pages…I figured I would finally do a page on Woody Harrelson. Woody Harrelson is an Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, Emmy® nominated actor. He has now been a star for over thirty years. Harrelson seems at home in any type of movie genre. My personal Top 5 Woody Harrelson performances would be his comedy Kingpin, his drama The Messenger, his sports movie White Men Can’t Jump, his role in The Hunger Games and his bad guy role in Out of the Furnace (this was an Oscar® worthy supporting role that got no love at all).
His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1978. This page will rank Woody Harrelson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Woody Harrelson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Woody Harrelson 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 Harrelson movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Woody Harrelson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Woody Harrelson movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Woody Harrelson 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 Harrelson movie received.
- Sort Woody Harrelson 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.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Woody Harrelson
1. Woodrow Tracy “Woody” Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas.
2. Two of Woody Harrelson’s brothers are also actors…..Brett and Jordan. His father Charles was a hit man who died in prison.
3. Woody Harrelson’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. In 1983 he graduated from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana with a degree in theater. In 1985 he auditioned and won the role of Woody Boyd in the hit television series, Cheers. From 1985-1993 he appeared in 200 episodes of the show. During breaks from the show he started making feature films.
4. Woody Harrelson’s first movie to reach theaters was 1986’s Wildcats. In that movie, Goldie Hawn played a football coach. Two of her players were Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. Harrelson and Snipes would later star in two more movies….White Men Can’t Jump (1992) and Money Train (1995).
5. To date Woody Harrelson has been in 6 sports themed movies. White Men Can’t Jump (1992) basketball, Kingpin (1996) bowling, Play It To The Bone (1999) boxing, The Grand (2008) poker, Semi-Pro (2008) basketball, and Surfer, Dude (2008) surfing.
6. Woody Harrelson has been nominated for two acing Oscars®. His first Oscar® nomination was for 1996’s The People vs Larry Flynt. His second Oscar® nomination was for 2009’s The Messenger.
7. Woody Harrelson has been married two times. His first marriage was to Neil Simon’s daughter Nancy, from 1985 to 1986. His second marriage is to Laura Louie (2008-)…they have 3 daughters…which he refers to as his “Goddess trilogy”. Very cool as I have my own “Goddess trilogy”.
8. Roles Woody Harrelson turned down or was seriously considered for: American Beauty (Kevin Spacey role), A Time To Kill (Matthew McConaughey role), Assassins (Antonio Bandaras role).
9. From IMDb trivia: He climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and put up a sign that read, “Hurwitz. Aren’t ancient redwoods more precious than gold?” in protest of MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber CEO Charles Hurwitz, who once stated, “He who has the gold, makes the rules”.
10. Check out Woody Harrelson‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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As indicated in Part 2 to my eyes your Woody offering was a very high-quality video that was quite exceptional so that with my own limited skills I found it very hard doing the fine-tuning whereas usually that is not the case. Listing virtually EVERYTHING pleasing makes the selection process meaningless to an extent; so I’ve done my best to pick my TOP faves here. Anyway the video deserves 99% for the pleasure it gave me; and you and The Big Boy agree on 4 of Woody’s best reviewed 6.
MY STILLS SELECTION
1/Seven Pounds
2/Indecent Proposal
3/solo one for Midway
4/Rampart
5/Star Wars Solo
6/White Men Can’t Jump
7/Zombieland
8/EDtv
9/Natural Born Killers
10/War for Planet of the Apes
11/Thin Red Line
12/3 Billboards
13/Friends with Benefits
14/2012
15/NYSM
16/Again ALL the Hunger Games ones.
As always Bob, good breakdowns on Steve’s videos and the career of the subject. Long live Woody!
WOODY’s BEST POSTERS: Such was the high quality throughout your presentation that I found it difficult cutting my list down to an economical 20 or so entries; but here is my best shot.
1/two for Shock and Awe
2/Kingpin
3/Bunraku
4/two for Triple Nine
5/set for NYSM2
6/two for 2012
7Set for Midway
8/Star Wars Solo
9/The Highwaymen
10/two for 7 Psychos
11/Transsiberian
12/two for Scanner Darkly
13/Edge of 17
14/Welcome to Sarajevo
15/Zombieland
16/War for Planet of the Apes
17/Thin Red Line
18/first one for Larry Flynt – very racy!
19/two for No Country for Old Men
20/3 Billboards
21/Zombieland
22/PLUS – ALL Hunger Games splendid ones
.On top of his prolific big screen career [63 movies listed above by WH] Woody has appeared in 17 television productions from 1985 [in the TV sitcom Cheers] until last year; and has starred in 5 stage presentations 1985-2012.
I have seen 6 of his films and of course have watched him in most if not all of his Cheers episodes as well as all episodes of the 1st True Detective series. The 6 films concerned are LA Story; Doc Hollywood; Indecent Proposal; Anger Management; No Country for Old Men; and Rampart which impressed me the most.
He’s continuing to keep busy because in the pipeline for him are (1) 2 movies at post production stage (2) one further one filming (3) and at pre-production stage yet another movie and a TV series called The Most Dangerous Man in America with Woody in the title role.
IMDB credits Woody with 28 acting awards and a whopping 92 nominations and he reportedly enjoys a current net worth of $65 million. That compares very well with the apparent net worth of each of his old Cheers main buddies:
Ted Danson $80 million
John Ratzenberger $80 million ***
Kelsey Grammer $60 million
Rhea Perlman [real-life Mrs Danny DeVito] $50 million
George Wendt $45 million
Kirstie Alley $40 million
Shelley Long $15 million
***lucrative cinematic voice role career in franchises like Toy Story/Cars/Finding Dory. I like him
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating (ooh), info and trivia, always appreciated. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
As you say he is a busy actor and now a respected Oscar nominated actor too. I would never have predicted that back in the 1990s. Well if rapper Mark Wahlberg can get respect in that town why not Woody?
4 of Woody’s films score 10 out of 10 from my sources – Catching Fire, The Thin Red Line, Three Billboards and No Country For Old Men.
3 more scored 9 out of 10 – The Messenger, The People vs Larry Flynt and War for the Planet of the Apes. There are several scoring 8 including Natural Born Killers, Hunger Games and Zombieland.
Topping the bill at IMDB is Three Billboards, no.1 at RT is No Country For Old Men.
“Well for six years during Cheers, I couldn’t get another job. So I was getting to the mindset of, ‘Wow, so this is it. I thought the career was just starting and apparently it’s just over.’ Fortunately then, I got a role in Doc Hollywood and then White Men Can’t Jump. Those I was doing during my hiatus from Cheers, and then Indecent Proposal came out literally the day after we wrapped Cheers.”
Woody on his daughter going to college – “It was one of the single most difficult experiences of my life, when it was time to separate and she walked off to the dorm and we drove away. I bawled my eyes out.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback including quotes.
As I have touched on previously on this page Woody’s contrasting convincing performances as the comic almost ‘half-wit’ in Cheers and his foul-mouthed brutal policemen In the TV series True Detective and especially Rampart on the big screen have displayed an acting range that in my experience few of the recognised mega stars could duplicate.
Keep safe.
Woody gets a video. Overall I have seen 53 of his movies. 37 of the ones listed here….not too bad. He has been a very busy actor since Cheers ended. Favorites include #25 Now You See Me, #22 Out of the Furnace….he is amazing in that one….I thought his performance should have at least gotten some Oscar buzz….it sadly did not. #13 Edge of 17…..he played a good teacher. #8 Zombieland…fun movie…and I liked the sequel as well. #2 Three Billboards…I actually thought his performance was better than Sam Rockwell’s in that one. Sam won the Oscar, Woody did get a nomination. I like some of his higher rated movies, just not favorties. Good video. Voted up. Shared.
Steve’s Woody video added to the page.
Hi Bruce, you’ve seen 53 of Woody’s films overall and 37 out of the 40 on the video, whoa! Impressive. He must be a favorite of yours. Let’s see I’ve seen… 26 of the 40, not too shabby.
He was scary in Out of the Furnace, friendly in Three Billboards, fun in the Zombieland films. In the 90s critics sneered but he has become quite a respected actor. Thanks again for the share, vote and comment, always appreciated.
1 Woody’s earlier TV persona was in complete contrast to some of his later big screen roles. In the Cheers TV series he played a not too bright, upright character who was polite and deferential to others especially females.
2 However in for example the 2011 cinematic film Rampart he was a foul-mouthed, racist womanising bully. It is interesting that he was once in line for the McConaughey role in A Time to Kill as both of them starred in the hit TV series True Detective of which the pair were joint executive producers and in which they made a brilliant and cohesive acting team.
3 I welcome this as another fine profile of a most unusual and versatile actor. Well done WH.
Thanks for the thoughts on Woody, Bob. Sorry that this comment escaped me for so long. I agree he has come a long way since Cheers. I think he is getting better and better as time progresses. He and MM are friends. I imagine they might make another movie together. Good stuff. Wow three plus years since you did this comment…how is that possible?