Jodie Foster Movies

Jodie Foster directing George Clooney in her latest movie....Money Monster
Jodie Foster directing George Clooney in her latest movie….Money Monster

Want to know the best Jodie Foster movies?  How about the worst Jodie Foster movies?  Curious about Jodie Foster’s box office grosses or which Jodie Foster movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jodie Foster movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences or which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

If CAWBAA (Child Actors Who Became Awesome Adults) had a Board of Directors….Joining Kurt Russell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ron Howard, Jason Bateman and Neil Patrick Harris on the board would be Jodie Foster.  When I was 16, I was proving that I was not mature enough to have a driver’s license.  By the time Jodie Foster was 16, she had 41 IMDb acting credits, had appeared in two Martin Scorsese movies, had hosted Saturday Night Live and was an Oscar® nominated actress.

Jodie Foster (1962-) is a two-time Best Actress Oscar® winner, director and producer.  She has been appearing in movies for over 50 years.  During that time, she has also won three Golden Globes®, three BAFTAs (British Oscars) and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.  She is one of the best actresses of not only her generation but of all generations.  So, when I was looking at my Request page, I saw three people (Michael, Wife of Cogerson and DP184) had requested a movie page her…. I realized a Jodie Foster UltimateMovieRankings page was way overdue.

Her IMDb page shows over 83 acting credits since 1969. This page will rank Jodie Foster movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances and movies not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.

Jodie Foster in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Jodie Foster 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 Jodie Foster movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Jodie Foster movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Jodie Foster movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Jodie Foster 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 Jodie Foster movie received.
  • Sort Jodie Foster movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score

Jodie Foster Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Jodie Foster in 1997's Contact
Jodie Foster in 1997’s Contact

Possibly Interesting Facts About Jodie Foster

1. Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los Angeles, California.  Her three siblings insisted on calling her Jodie….I think they got their way.

2.  Jodie Foster’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style.  At the age of three she was a model.  This led to commercials, including being the Coppertone girl.  By six she was appearing on prime-time television shows.  At nine she started appearing in motion pictures like 1972’s Napoleon and Samantha with Michael Douglas and 1973’s Tom Sawyer.  Martin Scorsese cast her in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and then he cast her in her star making role…..1976’s Taxi Driver.  And the rest as they say….is history.

3.  Jodie Foster put her acting career on hold to attend Yale University.  She majored in literature and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984. During her time at Yale was stalked by John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan to impress her.

4. Jodie Foster has been nominated for five acting Oscars®.  Her first nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in Taxi Driver.  She won two Best Actress Oscars®……first for 1988’s The Accused and then for 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs.  Her fourth nomination was a Best Actress nomination for 1994’s Nell.  Her most recent nomination was for 2023’s Nyad.

5. Jodie Foster has been married one time.  She married Alexandra Hedison in 2014.  She has two sons.

6. Jodie Foster was voted the 57th “Greatest Movie Star” of all time by Entertainment Weekly.    Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 “Sexiest Stars” in film history.  Her role in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs was ranked as “the 6th greatest hero” by the American Film Institute.

7.  Jodie Foster considers her role in Nell (1994) as her best performance. Her favorite actors are Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart. Her favorite actresses are Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Katharine Hepburn.  The Deer Hunter is her favorite movie.

8.  Roles Jodie Foster turned down or was seriously considered for:  Elizabeth Shue part in Adventures in Babysitting,  Julia Roberts role in Pretty Woman,  Elizabeth McGovern’s part in Once Upon A Time In America, Nicole Kidman role in To Die For, Molly Ringwald’s roles in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink,  Tatum O’Neal’s role in The Bad News Bears, and Meg Ryan role in Sleepless in Seattle.

9.  There is an asteroid named after her…..it is called 17744 Jodiefoster.

10.  Check out Jodie Foster‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Check Out Steve’s Jodie Foster You Tube Video

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28 thoughts on “Jodie Foster Movies”

  1. HI STEVE

    Thanks for the informative quote from Jodie May I just pick you up on a few other points-

    (1) I always have to guard against profanities, rude comments etc as they can slip out when talking about guys like John McClane who use them regularly. However as far as the English are concerned I always “tell it as it is” as The Donald is fond of boasting.

    SENIOR AIRCRAFTMAN HIGGINS “Sir, Senior Aircraftman Roy, who is typing up the memo you have drafted to the Station Commander thinks it would be better expressed in the manner that Roy has redrafted it.
    FLIGHT LIEUTENANT SHELLEY [Looking at the new draft] “Nonsense! But maybe that’s the way they would write things in Ireland.”.

    (2) Bruce’s “mind wanders (probably thinking of JH)” Is there ANY other person to think of?

    (3) I have my own Doris memorability so I didn’t get the Doris/Jodie trivia from The Work Horse. I do steal from him all the time but he probably would have mentioned something like the Doris trivia related to TV if Jodie had debuted on The Myrna Loy Show. instead of the Doris show.

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    1. Hey Bob……good additional Jodie comment. Not sure I understand your Doris/Trivia part….I did a “Doris Day” search and she is not mentioned at all on this page. Yep…to keep this website rated G…we have to have those rules….lol.

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      1. HI BRUCE

        Doris/Trivia

        Jodie made her acting debut on the 1969 Doris Day Show as Jenny Benson in an episode called The Baby Sitter. See Jodie’s IMDB page.

        I mentioned that in my post to Steve and he asked me if I had gotten that trivia from your pages.

        I told him that I hadn’t gotten the information from you and joked that you normally didn’t go too much into TV appearances [understandably as this is a movies site].

        However I joked that if Jodie had made her debut on The Myrna Loy Show [had there been one] you would probably have publicised that fact – but it was just a joke!

        Does that clarify matters for you?

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        1. Hey Bob….ok….I understand now. I kept looking for some Day trivia on the page. So yes…it completely clarifies the matter. Thank you.

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  2. Steve’s latest You Tube Video has been added to this page….our thoughts on his new Jodie Foster video.

    “New page on a two time Oscar winner. …sweet. Pretty sure I have seen #34 Foxes…but it has been a long time ago. #31 Sommersby….lived in Farmville, Virginia when that was filmed there….my babysitter got a part in the movie. #30 Hotel New Hampshire…good scenes but put together the movie does not work #28 The Beaver..depressing movie. #27 Freaky Friday…RIP Barbara Harris #24 Her Die Hard….I did not like this one #23 Stealing Home…barely in it #22 Money Monster….ok drama #20 Nim’s Island…better than I thought it was going to be. #16 Candleshoe…saw in theaters #15 Anna and the King…bored me #13 The Brave One…have a hard time buying her in action roles #12 Elysium..should have been better #11 Maverick…fun movie #9 Panic Room….decent thriller #8 Carnage….hard one to finish #7 Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane…Sheen is excellent #6 Contact..one of WoC’s favorites. #5 The Accused…Oscar performance #4 Inside Job….good thriller #3 Alice Doesn’t Live Here….her role is small #2 Silence of Hopkins….classic #1 Taxi Driver…classic but not a fun movie to watch. So that is 23 seen…..and I will be seeing Hotel Artemis soon. Good video…voted up and shared.”

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    1. Hi Bruce, great post, love the mini reviews. I was telling Flora that your tally will probably double mine and it has, I’ve seen 11 and Flora 6. We have the same top 5 on our charts which is cool and rarely happens. Taxi Driver is my favorite Scorsese movie and I agree its not a fun movie but than neither is Silence of the Lambs. Thanks again for commenting, appreciate the vote and share.

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      1. Hey Steve…glad to share your video here….yep…with the exception of Dan…I think I see the most current movies….in most cases….good stuff.

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  3. I have always regarded Jodie Foster as more of a prestige actress in terms of acting skills than as a major box office star – ie one who can open a consistent run of movies at the box office.
    She HAS had big hits but they have often been sporadic, particularly in the last 20 years when as Bruce’s table above shows she has only had 4 movies that crashed the now legendary Cogerson magical 100 million mark in adjusted domestic dollars, and one of those, Inside Man, was actually a Denzel movie with Jodie just in support.

    Still (1) as Bruce points out in his excellent summary of her career she began acting at the age of 6 so she had done well to be getting lead roles almost half a century later though her release this year, Hotel Artemis, seems to have died at the box office and has not fared too well critically either [about $6 million US and a 58% rating in the Great Man’s chart above though YOU are a bit kinder with 63%] (2) always a very big plus in my book Jodie’s very first screen appearance of any kind was in my Doris’ The Doris Day Show in 1969 entitled The Baby Sitter! (3) I always find Jodie compulsive to watch and of course she is a double Oscar winner, a treble Golden Globe winner and a multiple nominee for both awards.

    Accordingly I love your video so a 97.5 % rating and a “Vote Up” [why does everyone keep using that saying since I invented it!] Best POSTERS for me are Catch Fire, Foxes, One Little Englander, 2 superb ones for Freaky Friday , Home for the Holidays, Money Monster [with my Julia – and Bruce and I are always glad to see any poster with Aunt Rosemary’s gorgeous nephew in it] Carny, Little Man Tate, foreign language one which I gather Captain
    Cosmopolitan too loves for The Brave One [a favourite film of mine among all her movies] the raunchy one for The Accused and a lush one for Silence of the Lambs.

    Your STILLS are up to your normal very high standard with the most pleasing for me personally being Panic Room, Jodie in bed with Gere, her in Nell, her in Flightplan [another of my own very fave Foster movies] lovely in white as Anna, solo from Elysium, with Hannibal, with the great Denzel and little Lamb Clarice Starling with two other legendary screen characters, TV’s Bret Maverick and Martin Riggs. For me a true collector’s item that last one taken in the good years before Martin Riggs’ screen creator went crazy..

    You and another guy who could well be getting there agree on all of Jodie’s Top 5 best reviewed and in the exact same order. Amazing!

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    1. Hey Bob
      1. Just checked out your AWOL comment.
      2. So….I assume this is Steve’s latest video….I will have to check it out in a few minutes before heading to work.
      3. Jodie Foster, Ron Howard and Kurt Russell are three examples of people that successfully navigated through the perils of being a child star and becoming even bigger adult thespians.
      4. Jodie (55 years old) Ron (64 years old) and Kurt (67 years old) have almost a combined 160 plus years of movie making history with very few scandals….a truly impressive accomplishment.
      5. Good review on Steve’s video.
      6. So Steve and UMR match all the Top 5 and in the right order…that has not happened too many times…if at all. Good to see Steve getting it right….for once….lol.
      Good feedback.

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      1. HI BRUCE

        Thanks for your feedback on my Jodie Foster post.

        Perhaps mentioned along with the worthy trio that you cite should be Jeff Bridges who debuted in 1951 in The Company She Keeps starring Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer and Dennis O’Keefe.

        Jeff was a 6 month old infant who was carried onto a train but I don’t think you have given him credit for its gross on your otherwise fabulously comprehensive Bridges page!

        Brother Beau Bridges and their mom Dorothy Dean Bridges also appeared in the film. Ironically Jeff co-starred with Jane Greer 31 years later in the 1984 Against all Odds. Puts a new slant on cradle snatching doesn’t it!

        If you do now give him credit for it I’ll have to check to see whether The Duke, Brando or any of my other top idols were carted about in movies as infants !.

        Certainly a bald baby Willis could be said not to have changed much over the years! But would Mikey have been jealous of Bruce’s earlier outing?

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        1. HI GUYS
          My previous post about Jeff Bridges debut as a infant gets us back into “Steve and release dates” territory because when the film was released in the States in Jan 1951 Jeff was around 1 year and 1 month old whereas when shooting of his scene in The Company She Keeps took place he was just 6 months old [Overall production started in March 1950 when Jeff was about 4 months]

          The consequence of this is that as he was born in 1949 and the film was released in England some time in 1951 [the Brits won’t come clean on precisely when] the Lensman-type sites, which are not interested in doing statistical calculations, will tell you he was a flat 2 years old in the film whereas the stats-perfect Cogerson-type sites quote the correct date of 6 months.

          As we didn’t have saturation releases in those days I think it was round 1953 before we got the movie over here [we Irish have always been back of every queue!] so that if they got the movie in Timbuktu and Shangri-La that year local movie magazines probably quoted Jeff as being 4 years old in the film!

          Anyway they required baby Jeff to cry in the arms of his screen mother Jane Greer so to get him to do that his real life mother allowed them to covertly pinch him. Jeff himself laughed when –years later as an adult of course – he told that story on TV IMDB gives the movie a 64% rating.

          Despite the Irish sounding name Dennis O’Keefe was a Yank so maybe we’ll get a Cogerson page on his prolific career some time. I always thought he was a poor amn’s Golden Holden

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          1. Interesting info Bob, thanks. What I was wondering is why Lloyd Bridges young children were in this film? Was he friendly with the director or the people in it? Was he loaning out his infant babies to various studios? 🙂

        2. Interesting about the Bridges and their early movie appearances …..I am sure there are lots of roles played by the stars’ children……probably not going to be including them in the tables…but they make for some good trivia. Other notables. Charlie Sheen in his dad’s Apocalypse Now, 3 Bruce Willis daughters in The Whole Nine Yards, Wyatt Russell in Kurt Russell’s Soldier. Good stuff.

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          1. HI BRUCE

            Thanks for the additional “offspring” information – didn’t know any of it.

            You’re getting almost as good as Lupino in providing extra trivia at the moment!

    2. Hi Bob, I saw your previous post and wondered why it wasn’t getting thru. I was going to suggest you check your comment again and see if there was any hidden profanity, slurs against the English, weird links, rude poems. naughty limericks, that sort of thing.

      Luckily it did get thru and good on you for making back ups, always the right thing when writing a lengthy comment, anything can happen. Bruce regularly loses his comments on my video channel because he gets tempted to open other links before he could submit the comment, his mind wanders (probably thinking of JH). 😉

      Thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and comparison, good to see you’re a Jodie fan. I liked Flightplan too, disappointed it wasn’t rated higher.

      I didn’t know her very first appearance was on the Doris Day show in 1969, is that in Bruce’s trivia box? No I can’t be bothered to look, too lazy. [Stop it Steve!)

      It’s amazing I have the same top 5 with Bruce and in the same order. How often does that happen? Nice.

      There are two Jodie Foster films scoring 10 out of 10 from my sources, Taxi Driver and Silence of the Lambs, no surprises there.

      One movie scored 9 out of 10 – Alice No Longer Lives Here, one of the few Scorsese films I haven’t seen. I should give it a go.

      There are 16 films scoring 8 out of 10, impressive stats for our little Jodie.

      No.1 at IMDB is Silence of the Lambs, and Taxi Driver is tops at Rotten Tomatoes.

      Jodie on Taxi Driver – “At first I didn’t want to do the part, but only because I was afraid my friends would tease me afterward. I thought, “Wow, they’ve got to be kidding.” It was a great part for Melanie Griffith, but I couldn’t believe that they were offering it to me. I was a Disney girl. I grew up three blocks away from Hollywood Boulevard and saw prostitutes like Iris every day. I spent four hours with a shrink trying to prove I was normal enough to play a hooker. Does that make sense?”
      De Niro rehearses and rehearses until you get the feeling that for the time you’re with him he is the character. It’s so real it’s frightening.”

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