*Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting as he battles aphasia, a neurological condition that affects the ability to communicate. 3/30/2022
Want to know the best Bruce Willis movies? How about the worst Bruce Willis movies? Curious about Bruce Willis’s box office grosses or which Bruce Willis movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Bruce Willis movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.
I have followed Bruce Willis’ career since he hit the big time with his star making role as David Addison on Moonlighting. I still think the Moonlighting 3 episode story arc with Mark Harmon,was some the best television I have ever seen and the pinnacle of that series. Since Moonlighting, Bruce Willis has had a very busy career, making over 60 movies over the last 27 years. It has been a roller coaster ride…the highs….. movies like Pulp Fiction, most of the Die Hards, and The Sixth Sense…..the lows….movies like The Whole Ten Yards, Hudson Hawk, Bonfire of the Vanities and North. His IMDb page shows 145 acting credits since 1980. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks movies in 6 different sortable columns.
Bruce Willis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Bruce Willis 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 Bruce Willis movies by movie title and movie trailers.
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- Sort Bruce Willis movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
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- Sort Bruce Willis movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Bruce Willis movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Bruce Willis movie won.
- Sort Bruce Willis 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 Bruce Willis
1. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His dad was an American while his mother was a German.
2. Bruce Willis worked as a bartender when he was a struggling actor in New York City.
3. In 1984, Bruce Willis left New York City to audition for roles in Los Angeles.
4. Bruce Willis’ big break was getting the role in the television series Moonlighting (1985-1989). Glenn Gordon Caron had to fight with ABC to put Willis in the lead role having already signed Shepherd for both the pilot and series. Caron claims he tested Willis about a third of the way through testing over 2,000 actors, knew “this was the guy” immediately, and had to fight through twice as many more acting tests and readings while arguing with ABC executives before receiving (initial) conditional authorization to cast Willis in the pilot. ABC, according to Caron, did not feel that anyone viewing would think there could possibly be any “believable” sexual tension between Shepherd and Willis.
5. Although Bruce Willis was the 115th choice to play John McClane in 1988’s Die Hard….he was given an unheard, at the time, salary of $5 million dollars.
6. Bruce Willis was the only celebrity that attended Julia Roberts’ wedding to Daniel Moder. Their friendship is referred to in Ocean’s Twelve (2004), when he mistakes Tess Ocean for Julia Roberts, and asks her about ‘Danny’.
7. Bruce Willis was the first actor to ever “act” in a video game (Apocalypse (1998)). No one before had ever done voice work along with having their likeness and movements digitally added to the game, as well as receiving prominent billing on the game’s cover.
8. Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984), which went to Michael Biehn.
9. Bruce Willis has been married two times. He has 5 daughters. His first marriage was to Demi Moore. His current marriage is to Emma Heming.
10. Check out Bruce Willis’ career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Personal Top Ten Bruce Willis Movies
- Die Hard
- The Fifth Element
- Looper
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Nobody’s Fool
- Pulp Fiction
- Sin City
- The Sixth Sense
- Twelve Monkeys
- Unbreakable
Our You Tube Video that goes through the Rankings all of Bruce Willis’ movies.
My Letterboxd.com Bruce Willis Movie Reviews.
Steve Lensman’s Bruce Willis Top 50 Movies You Tube Video
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Not sure how you have Red2 ranked so low. I thought and so did everybody I saw Red2 with that Red2 was much better than Red1. And you have Red in his Top 20 and Red2 barely cracks his Top 40. Other than that I like the rankings of Bruce’s many movies.
Hey Tyler….Red2 was not received by critics or audiences as well as Red…plus it made about 40 million less than Red….and Red even picked up a Golden Globe nom for Best Picture….all those facts put Red higher ranked than Red 2. Glad you like my rankings. They make for good bar debates.
$200m in two weeks at the world box office? Some movies seem to be critic proof Bruce, I’ll catch Die Hard V on disc later in the year.
Red 2 should be good, liked the first one.
GI Joe the Sequel should be epic this summer, I’ll bet the snooty critics have already prepared their reviews. 🙂
Thanks for the update.
I agree it is pretty amazing how much money Die Hard 5 has made considering how bad the movie is….it joins sequels like Indy Jones 4, Karate Kid 3, Star Trek 5 and Caddyshack 2 for worst sequels ever.
I think Red 2 and GI Joe 2 have a chance to redeem Bruce pretty quickly…not to mention that he is coming back in Sin City 2….wow 4 sequels is one year…I wonder if that is a record.
Thanks for checking out my latest Bruce Willis update.
Very interesting information on one of my favorites.
Thank you….very glad to hear that.
Stopping by to say hello to Bruce and Bruce!!
Thank you Sunshine625…it is always a pleasure to see and hear from you….hope everything is going well in the sunshine state
How nice to be reminded of Moonlighting…I enjoyed that show and thought it should’ve lasted longer than it did. I was surprised at how many Bruce Willis movies I have actually seen!
This page, as with all of your pages, is so well put together and gives us so much information it really needs to be read twice! –
Hey tills….Moonlighting is what got me on the Bruce bandwagon….his David Addison character was awesome…..I was a huge fan of the show….but all the delays killed the show….it was not until recently that I watched the final two seasons….it has a very interesting final episode that nobody talks about….but it reminds me of the shows peak episodes.
As for his movie career…..the man has been a machine for almost 25 years now….4 movies this year already….3 more coming next year….and IMDB is showing 4 more projects for 2014…..then again he does have a newborn….and you know how expensive children can be…..lol. Thanks for the votes and the nice comment…they are both greatly appreciated.