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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Love you Babs
Thanks for stopping by Sergio.
Love her Music and Movies, but NOT her Misguided Politics.
Right there with you Barbara
Get over it
Hey Gene reed…..get over loving her music and movies?
It might have been the reference to “NOT her misguided politics….’
Being that there is an election soon in your country, maybe you will start getting lots of references to politics on pages of people who are outspoken in their politics.
Anyway, when I saw there were a bunch of comments on Babra’s page, I thought that it was because she was thinking about producing a remake (starring too? As Mom Rose?) of the musical Gypsy.
That musical is currently on stage where I live, but I don’t think I’ll be able to attend due to time conflicts.
Hey Flora…..yeah I figured that too…..I was pretty much picking back with Gene Reed….who obviously likes Barbra’s political views…..not saying I do or don’t….I just do not put much stock in any celebrity’s political views….either a Republican or Democrat.
Yesterday was her 74th birthday….and the page got a ton of views….with a few comments. I think she is thinking of making a Gypsy movie….could be interesting…her film career is only 19 movies…one more would give her a nice round number of 20.
TCM has has now put up at a Memorial Schedule for Omar Sharif. It is on Monday 21st and they are airing Dr. Zhivago, Funny Girl, and Funny Lady in that order.
Flora
Correction. That is September 21st.
Hey Flora….thanks for the news of the TCM Omar Sharif Memorial Schedule……too bad they did not include Lawrence of Arabia. I will put that on my Septemeber 21st schedule.
Great job you’ve done on Barbra. She’s starred in wonderful movies being YENTL one of my Top 5. She is incredible versatile either as a drama, action or comic movie. I must admit I didn’t quite enjoy her two last movies (TGT and Little Fockers) only because I am
a Southamerican guy and I am not involved enough in Jewish and American culture.
I want to thank to you for this big piece of information about her movies . Awesome.
Did I mention that I am a huge fan of her singing and acting career ?
@Edward….thanks for the nice words…..I did not like Little Fockers either….The Guilt Trip was better than I thought it was going to be.
I am currently around the music industry and I definitively say tha Barbra has broken all the records in comparison with her peers. I must admit that I am true fan of hers but also
like voices like Whitney, Mariah or Jennifer (natural, transparent, crystal clear voices).
Barbra has spanned her recording through different genders, like Bossa Nova, Dance
Music, Classical, Standards and so on. And she has done it incredible well. She is the one and only . Lastly, I do not quite like her 2 live concerts, partly for the sound quality and partly for her tired voice but what else can you ask for a 73 years old girl ? But she is still NUMBER ONE. She rules !!!
Hey edward…I agree with your comments. She is doing very well…even at 73..