Want to know the best Barbra Streisand movies? How about the worst Barbra Streisand movies? Curious about Barbra Streisand’s box office grosses or which Barbra Streisand movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Barbra Streisand movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This Barbra Streisand (1942-) movie page comes from an e-mail request from KellyE1967 that we do more actress pages. We can now say that Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn have been completed per similar requests. Before Lady Gaga, Madonna and Oprah, Streisand had to be the most influential woman in the world (even if they did not have such titles back then). As a singer, Streisand has sold over 140 million albums and won 8 Grammy® awards. This page will look at her equally successfully movie career.
Streisand’s movie career started off with a bang. Her feature debut was in 1968’s Funny Girl. Funny Girl would be her second biggest box office hit of her career and win her the Oscar® for Best Actress. The peak of her movie career was from 1968 to 1979. She would appear in the blockbusters What’s Up Doc?, A Star Is Born, Funny Girl and The Way We Were. In 1983 she started to direct her own movies and had great success with Yentl and The Prince of Tides. After nearly a ten year break from movies, she appeared as Ben Stiller’s mom in 2004’s Meet the Fockers and 2010’s Little Fockers and most recently as Seth Rogen’s mom in The Guilt Trip (2012)
Her IMDb page shows only 20 acting credits from 1968-2012. This page will rank 19 Barbra Streisand movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her Sunday Night Live television appearance was not included in the rankings.
Barbra Streisand Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Barbra Streisand 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 by Barbra Streisand’s co-stars of her movies.
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by how they were ranked by box office in the year of their release
- Sort Barbra Streisand 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 Barbra Streisand movie received.
- Sort Barbra Streisand 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 Barbra Streisand
1. Barbra Streisand was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
2. Since completing The Main Event….Barbra Streisand has only acted in 6 movies in the last 36 years….or one movie every 6 years.
3. Barbra Streisand is one of the few people to win/receive an Oscar®, a Grammy®, a Tony®, and an Emmy® award.
4. Barbra Streisand has received two Oscar® nominations for Best Actress (Funny Girl & The Way We Were), two Oscar® nominations for Best Song (A Star is Born & The Mirror Has Two Faces) and one Oscar® nomination for Best Picture (The Prince of Tides).
5. Barbra Streisand won Oscars® for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born.
6. Almost 50% of Barbra Streisand‘s acting performances have been nominated for a Golden Globe® award for Best Actress. Of her 9 nominations she won for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born. Streisand has been nominated for 2 Best Director Golden Globe® awards. She won for 1983’s Yentl.
7. Currently Barbra Streisand has 4 movies in the Top 200 Adjusted For Inflation Box Office Hits of All-Time: #134 Meet The Fockers, #171 Funny Girl, #186 What’s Up Doc and #196 A Star Is Born. A 5th movie The Way We Were just recently got knocked off that list. Pretty impressive, especially when you realize she only has 19 movies.
8. Although Barbra Streisand has appeared in only 19 movies, those 19 movies have been nominated for 44 Oscars®….or 2.44 nominations per movie. The 2.44 Oscar® nominations per movie is the highest average that I have found for any movie star. It barely beats out Clark Gable’s average of 2.42 nominations per movie.
9. Barbra Streisand has been married twice. Her first marriage (1963 -1971) was to actor Elliott Gould. They had one child together…Jason born in 1966. Her second marriage (1998 – present) is to actor James Brolin. She is the step-mother to actor Josh Brolin, as well two other Brolin children from his previous marriages.
10. Roles Barbra Streisand turned down….Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Cabaret, Chicago, Cinderella Liberty, The Exorcist, Julia, King Kong (1976), Misery, Oceans Twelve, Thelma and Louise and Titanic.
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Happy Birthday Miss Streisand!
Still hoping for one last movie- and a few more albums!
I wish you health, and more than wealth….I wish you Love.
Very enjoyable movie. No one killed, no shots fired, no vile language, A nice way to start off the new year. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Hi all!! Thanks for sharing!! I have admired Barbra since 1971 and it has been a wonderful journey to see her career since. It was also another journey of her career to go along is her musical career in albums/CD’s, TV specials and concerts. The movies that I admires: Funny Girl, What’s Up, Doc?; Hello Dolly!; Yentl; The Way We Were; For Pete’s Sake; Prince of Tides; Funny Lady; The Mirror has two faces; Brief comments of each: 1- Funny Girl; Powerful musical debut, excellent esemble, nice production design as well as costume design and excellent songs and scoring with clever editing. It will be always #1 movie associated with Barbra.
2- What’s Up, Doc?; EXCELLENT Esemble and writing!! I love to watch it again and again and NEVER be bored of this movie. Shocked me that this movie was not nominated much for Golden Globes in Musical/Comedy categories?? Madeline Kahn should have been nominated for supporting actress….. oh well
3- Hello Dolly!; I remember as a boy watching it in the theatre and my jaw was open to watch the awesome dancing, huge production designs as well as costumes plus exploding songs. Right now in 2019, this movie will fit because more people are accepting age-gap of a couple.
4- Yentl; As a Streisand fan, we all are proud of Barbra doing the risky and devotion of this project. Beautiful in many ways….. cinematography…lighting…production design….music…songs….costume….acting…inter-singing/interpreting… should have more than 4 Oscar nominations…
5- The Way We Were; I enjoy the chemistry between very handsome Robert Redford and Barbra which is the draw of this movie…. Barbra could have won the Best Actress (Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class which I am trying to understand why Glenda won??)…. nice period movie…. powerful association of the song which is Barbra first #1 song in her career and the song was also #1 at end of the year charts which is remarkable achievement for Barbra as a singer…..Marvin Hamlish’s score…..
6- For Pete’s Sake; Once a while I watch it for fun as it is a good comedy to laugh and nice to see variety of esemble working with Barbra…
7- Prince of Tides; nice serious movie with excellent performances especially Nick Nolte and Kate Nelligan. I love the music scoring as well as their cinematography. Barbra should have been nominated for Best Director (shame on Academy Awards members during that time!!) Also too bad that Barbra decided not to release or use the beautiful song as part of the movie except part of the soundtrack album…..
8- Funny Lady; great musical aspects that I often skipped the non-musical scenes to listen and watch musical performances such as Great Day, Blind Date, How Lucky Can You Get?, ….. I think the studio Columbia Pictures and producers (re: Fanny Brice’s son-in law) rush the movie… the story could be better… make-up should be better….better marketing (released in March)….I bet Barbra was glad that the movie contract was done with Funny Lady as the last film. Look what happen to ‘A Star Is Born” success!! Butterfly concept for Barbra
8- A Star Is Born; same as Funny Lady that I skipped non-musical scenes to enjoy the musical parts….
Thanks and talk more soon I hope soon for Albums/CD’s discussion…..
Love this comment. She was a favorite of mine growing up. Good breakdowns of your favorite Babs movies. They make me remember watching those movies with my and grandmother. Look forward to reading more of your opinions in the future.
Hey Dann 4. I agree with Helakoski 100%….this is a wonderful comment. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to put all of this together. I love the mini-reviews on the 8 Streisand movies you talked about. I just recently watched Yentl for the very first time, only a couple of months ago. Glad to see you liked the ones I really like too…What’s Up Doc…is easily my favorite movie of hers. I agree 100% with you on the chemistry of Redford and Streisand in The Way We Were. A pleasure to read your comment….hope you will come back and re-visit our website. Great stuff!