Awkwafina Movies

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

Awkwafina (1988-) is an American actress, comedian and rapper. Her IMDb page shows over 33 acting credits since 2012.  This page will rank Awkwafina movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.

2021's Raya and the Last Dragon
2021’s Raya and the Last Dragon

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

The Farewell (2019)

Awkwafina 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 any way you want.

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

Ocean’s 8 (2018)

Possibly Interesting Facts About Awkwafina

1. Nora Lum was born in Stony Brook, New York, on Long Island in 1988. Her mother was a Korean immigrant, and her father is of Chinese descent. Her great-grandfather opened the restaurant Lum’s in New York.

2. At age 16, Nora Lum adopted the stage name Awkwafina, “definitely a person I repressed” and an alter ego to her “quiet and more passive” personality during her college years.  Her stage name is a play on the word awkward, which she felt best describes her.

3. Awkwafina is the first Asian-American actress to win a Golden Globe® award for acting in a feature film, which she won for her performance as Billi from The Farewell (2019).

4. Awkwafina rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song “My Vag” became popular on YouTube.

5. Most of Awkwafina’s lines in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon were ad-libbed and improvised, similar to Robin Williams when he voiced the genie in Aladdin (1992) and David Spade when he voiced Kuzco in The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

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

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5 thoughts on “Awkwafina Movies

  1. BRUCE: I initially got confused and posted the comments below in error to the Yearly Reviews page which I consult almost nightly [and in fact am rarely off! ] so apologies for the duplication.

    I have seen none of the movies listed but Bruce’s profile of her encouraged me to do some research and I am pleased to see that despite being very modern with a big-screen acting career beginning as late as 2016 as shown in Bruce’s tables above she has already amassed a net worth of $8 million from her work in various mediums and is credited with 11 acting awards and 56 nominations.

    And of course there is more to come with 5 new movies in the pipeline –
    3 films at post-production stage
    1 movie filming – a remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
    1 flick at pre-production stage.

    It’s good to see The Work Horse giving space the “new kids on the block” so this new page is welcomed with a “Vote Up”.

    1. Hey Bob….your Awkwafina comment is so good….it deserves to be in two places. She might go down as one of the first YouTube stars to become a mainstream star….she is off to a great start as your net worth and award observations note. I recently got criticized for not having enough Pacific Asian pages….so I have been trying to be more diverse…and Awkwafina seemed like a good UMR subject. Thanks for the vote up and the feedback. Last day of vacation…and then we are headed back home. Wow has this time gone super fast.

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