Want to know the best Clint Eastwood movies? How about the worst Clint Eastwood movies? Curious about Bill Murray’s box office grosses or which Clint Eastwood movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Clint Eastwood movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Clint Eastwood is one of my favorite movie stars. Eastwood started appearing in movies in the mid 1950s, he gained his first notoriety playing Rowdy Yates on the television show Rawhide from 1959 to 1964. During a break from Rawhide, Eastwood agreed to star in a low budget western that was being filmed in Italy called A Fistful of Dollars (1964). The movie was a huge hit overseas, as result Eastwood became a star playing the “The Man With No Name”. He returned in two more spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone. My favorite Eastwood movie, the classic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) was the last of the trilogy.
In 1971 Eastwood played Detective Harry Callahan in the hit Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry turned Eastwood into a mega superstar. He would end up playing Harry Callahan in four sequels. During the 1970s and 1980s, Eastwood appeared in hit movie after hit movie. Having established himself as a solid investment, he talked Warner Brothers into letting him direct the movie Play Misty For Me (1971). The low budget movie turned into a success and the career of Clint Eastwood the director was launched. As Clint approached the age of 60, his movies were not receiving much box office success. Things looked like they were slowing down for him, when he starred, produced, and directed Unforgiven 1992. Unforgiven earned Eastwood his first Oscar® nomination for Best Actor, and Oscar® wins for Best Director and Best Picture.
Over the last thirty years, Eastwood has appeared in less movies and concentrated on directing. In 2004 he starred, produced and directed Million Dollar Baby. This female boxing movie earned Eastwood his second Best Actor nomination and won two more Oscars® for Best Director and Best Picture. His IMDb page shows over 90 acting and directing credits since 1955. This page will rank Clint Eastwood movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, uncredited roles, cameos, and a handful of his pre-A Fistful of Dollars were not included in the rankings.
Clint Eastwood Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Clint Eastwood 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 Clint Eastwood movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Clint Eastwood movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Clint Eastwood movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Clint Eastwood 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 Clint Eastwood movie received.
- Sort Clint Eastwood 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.
My Personal Top Ten Clint Eastwood Movies in Alphabetical Order
1. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)….the movie that turned a television supporting player into a superstar movie actor
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)….the last and best of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western trilogy
3. In The Line of Fire (1993)….I re-watch this one about every other year….Clint and John Malkovich get better with each passing year
4. Kelly’s Heroes (1970)….this is closing in on 50 years old…but it is still a fun and entertaining movie to watch
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)…the first time Clint demonstrated that he could direct a classic movie
6. Paint Your Wagon (1967)…..I am not much of a musical person…..but I love watching his Clint/Lee Marvin musical
7. Play Misty For Me (1971)…. Clint made Fatal Attraction years before Michael Douglas did
8. Space Cowboys (2000)…Clint, Tommy Lee Jones, the late great James Garner and a Kelly Heroes’ reunion with Donald Sutherland…what more could you want from a movie?
9. Sudden Impact (1983)….gotta include a Dirty Harry movie in this list…..my favorite of the 5 Dirty Harry movies
10. Unforgiven (1992)…. Clint’s masterpiece….gets better with each new viewing
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Clint has lots of duplicate movies. Is this something new or something going wrong?
Hey SteinHoF16……that issue has been fixed here……but it exists on other pages. WoC has created a program that goes and fetching information automatically from the internet and puts that information into the database/website. It is getting some awesome information….BUT…..it also brings a few little gremlins…..the biggest one seems to be movies in which an actor directed himself/herself…..all those extra Clint movies were those types of movies. I am sure Woody Allen, George Clooney and others are messed up like that too…..I have to manually fix those issues.
In some ways the database is becoming….”It’s Alive! It’s Alive!”……just hope we can control it better than Dr. Frank did….lol. Thanks for the headsup.
Sexy at any age.happy birthday,clint
Hey Debra…thanks for sharing your thoughts and birthday wishes on Clint…88 and going strong.
Hello,
One of my favorite actor, he si simply one of the best as an actor and as a director.
My fav film and for ever stay, The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
I have no idea for his age but to day he is a great name and by years become a legend;
So everything is perfect;
Happy birthday
Champagne
Pierre
Hey Pierre….I agree with your comment. Clint has been a star my entire life. I saw the re-runs of Rawhide on television growing up….Dirty Harry has always been a known character in my lifetime…as a teeenager he was the biggest star…and now that I am older….and he is much older….he is one of the greatest directors working today….what a career! Truly a living legend. Thanks for stopping by and commenting on his birthday.
Happy 88th birthday to Clint Eastwood. Happy to hear he is still making movies.
Right there with you Flora…..88 and still going strong….since 2010…even though he was in his 80s….he will have directed 7 movies….and appeared in 2 movies…when The Mule reaches theaters…..he is like the Energizer bunny…he just keeps going and going.
One in a million
I agree 100%…..88 and about to start filming another movie. The Mule with Bradley Cooper.