Donald Sutherland Movies

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

Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) was a Canadian actor.  For almost 60 years he appeared in blockbuster movies.  He has successful moved from being a leading man in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming a successful supporting actor in recent years.  The Canadian Michael Caine!  His IMDb page shows 200 acting credits from 1962 to 2024. This page will rank over Donald Sutherland movies.  Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.

Drivel part of the page:  (1) This Donald Sutherland page comes from a request by Hinto66 & Bern1960 (she’s a Canuck too). (2) For the first time ever….we are including stats for VOD (Video on Demand) grosses.  His The Calling (2014) earned $3 million in revenue through those outlets.  Wonder when a VOD revenue page will hit the internet?  (3) And finally….it took over 5 years to reach this mark….but this is our 400th UMR movie page….confetti falling from the ceiling.

Donald Sutherland in 1967's The Dirty Dozen
Donald Sutherland in 1967’s The Dirty Dozen

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

Donald Sutherland 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 Donald Sutherland movies by co-stars of his movies
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  • Sort Donald Sutherland movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Donald Sutherland 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 Donald Sutherland movie received.
  • Sort Donald Sutherland 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.

Donald Sutherland Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Donald Sutherland in 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Donald Sutherland in 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Possibly Interesting Facts About Donald Sutherland

  1. Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1935.

2. Donald Sutherland studied engineering and drama at Victoria College, University of Toronto.  He eventually decided to drop engineering and left Canada and went to England.  He then attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

3. Donald Sutherland’s first two credited movie appearances were in movies that starred the legendary Christopher Lee.  Sorry 1964’s Castle of the Living Dead (not released in America) and 1965’s Dr. Terror’s House of Horror (can’t find box office numbers) did not make the page.

4.  Donald Sutherland has never been nominated for an Oscar®….but he does have a 3 movie acting Golden Globe® nominations: 1970’s M.A.S.H., 1980’s Ordinary People & 1998’s Without Limits  He has received 5 more Golden Globe® nominations for his television work..he has won 2 Golden Globe®.

5.  Donald Sutherland might hold the record for most years between number one movies of the year.  In 1967 he starred in The Dirty Dozen…Variety’s Top Box Office Movie of 1967.  48 years later  he starred in the biggest hit of 2013..The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

6. Donald Sutherland has worked with 7 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar®: John Schlesinger, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Redford, Ron Howard, Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson, and Anthony Minghella.

7. Donald Sutherland favorite movie of all-time is 1946’s Great Expectations.

8. Donald Sutherland has been married three times. He has 5 children  Keifer Sutherland is one of his sons.

9. Donald Sutherland’s cumulative movie totals:  Adjusted domestic box office:  $5.77 billion.  His movies received 46 Oscar® nominations….winning 11 times.

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

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  1. WoC just shared the news of the passing of Donald Sutherland. Sad sad news. Mr. Sutherland has been a movie star my entire life. Seen 60 of the movies listed above.

    My personal Mount Rushmore of Sutherland movies would be MASH, The Hunger Games Catching Fire, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Kelly’s Heroes.

    His best performance in my mind was Ordinary People. How did he not get an Oscar nomination for that one?

    The movie I can watch over and over is Kelly’s Heroes….it will be bittersweet the next time I see his Oddball.

    His best supporting role….really like him in the comedies Animal House and Heaven Help Us.

    Best late in life role…..President Snow in the Hunger Game movies and The Leisure Seeker.

    The worst Sutherland movie I watched was 1987’s The Trouble With Spies.

    Rest in Peace.

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  2. HI ROBERT THE 2nd!

    Great hearing from you as always.

    It is also heartening to read your kind words about Brando given the way Joel Hirschhorn has been allowed to spread demonising stuff about Marlon all across the site. The moderators really SHOULD rein-in guys like Hirsch out of consideration for Brando’s legion of fans.

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  3. FLORA: Yes I knew that you are Canadian. Indeed because of that I hesitated about winding-up Bruce about “Canucks” in case you took me seriously and it offended you-but I decided that you would realise that I was only joking as I tend to do with Bruce. He’s a hard guy to take seriously!!!

    Regarding Raymond Burr and your liking for him – snap!: please see my further post to Bruce a few moments ago. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Raymond’s career:
    “Burr was originally too heavy for the role of Perry Mason but he went on a crash diet over the following month; he then tested as Perry Mason and was cast in the role. While Burr’s test was running it was watched by Mason’s literary creator Erle Stanley Gardner who reportedly stood up, pointed at the screen, and said, ‘That’s Perry Mason.’

    It was reportedly Burr’s brilliant courtroom scenes in 1951’s A Place in the Sun that first drew attention to him as ideal for the role of Mason. Although today he is most famous for the Perry role he is also valued by many film historians for his sterling work on the big screen.

    Look at his powerhouse performance in Rear Window for example; but in fact Burr appeared in more than 50 feature films between 1946 and 1957, creating an array of villains that established him as an icon of film noir.  

    Indeed film historian Alain Silver concluded that Burr’s most significant work in the genre is in ten films: Desperate (1947), Sleep, My Love (1948), Raw Deal (1948), Pitfall (1948), Abandoned (1949), Red Light (1949), M (1951), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Blue Gardenia (1953), and Crime of Passion (1957).”

    On his sad death in 1993 Raymond is said by the Celebrity Net Worth site to have left behind a net worth of $15 million worth over $30 million in today’s money -ie in 2022. He has been ranked the 44th greatest TV actor of all-time.

    Raymond of course possesses one of filmdom’s greatest accolades: a Cogerson page! and on that page The Work Horse expands on some of the observations I have recorded above and as usual Bruce gives a fine statistical run-down of Raymond’s films – 58 of them in fact right from Raymond’s big screen debut in 1946 up until his final big screen year 1991. A comprehensive filmography indeed.

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    1. Hi, Bob. Thanks for the comprehensive reply on Burr’s career. I thought you were joking, but it is hard to tell online. I am indeed a big fan of both Perry Mason and film noir.

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  4. Hey Bob. Good thoughts on Sutherland, Brando and A Dry White Season. I am officially 25% Canadian. One grandparent was born in Manchester England (near Steve), one was born in Montreal, Canada, two were born in the United States (Portland, Oregon). Donald Sutherland never got an acting Oscar nomination…but does have a Honorary Oscar….he got that in 2017. Good stuff as always.

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      1. HI BRUCE: Your site is nothing if not educational: I had either forgotten or never knew that Donald is a Canuck. Pity about that as I have always liked and admired him professionaly a lot. Say, aren’t you part Canuck? – ah well nobody’s perfect!!!

        You told me once that you found some of my Brando anecdotes interesting. Donald said in an interview at the time of making A Dry White Season in 1989 that his 3rd and present wife Francine Racette was a great Brando fan

        Coincidentallly Donald and she married in 1972 when Godpop was released and going the rounds; and a further Dan-like coincidence is that I too married that year and went to see Godpop for the first time on my honeymoon in Dublin Ireland that November.

        Anyway Francine asked Sutherland if she could accompany him on location for Dry White Season so that she could watch her idol at work first hand and Donald agreed.

        Maybe Francine’s presence inspired Brando in turn because Marlon received a supporting Oscar nomination for his cameo in that movie – it was in fact his final brush with potential Oscar-love. He received too Golden Globe and the prestigious New York Critics Flim Circle nominations for his Dry White Season supporting role.

        The cameo in Dry White was in fact a “labour of love” for Brando as it was a critique of racial segregation in South Africa in 1976 [and a film after Donald’s own heart too] so Marlon demanded just “scale union salary” for his cameo and donated the money to an anti-racist charity organisation.

        Not quite the conduct of the notorius money-grubbing ‘bad boy’ of the Hirschhorn fables! Indeed Joel maybe would have been proud of The Great Mumbler if he had been aware of Marlon’s sacrificial jesture! Donald and Susan Sarandon should also be praised for their generosity as Wikipedia faithfully records:

        WIKIPEDIA: “Actor Brando was so moved by A dry White Season’s commitment to social change that he came out of a self-imposed retirement to play the academy award-nominated role of the human rights lawyer; he also agreed to work for union scale ($4,000), far below his usual fee. Sutherland and Sarandon also took reduced salaries in the name of the cause. Brando was particularly praised for his small but key role as the human rights attorney Ian McKenzie.”

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        1. Hey Bob. Good thoughts on Sutherland, Brando and A Dry White Season. I am officially 25% Canadian. One grandparent was born in Manchester England (near Steve), one was born in Montreal, Canada, two were born in the United States (Portland, Oregon). Donald Sutherland never got an acting Oscar nomination…but does have a Honorary Oscar….he got that in 2017. Good stuff as always.

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          1. HI BIG BOY Thanks for your reply and for explaining to me the % breakdown of your “roots”. We ‘statisticians’ sure know how to crunch the numbers!

            In fact I grew up with a guy, a Robert Brown, who was nickanmed “Quarter Brown/Quarter Montgomery.” because he explained part of his ancestry that way!

            I had actually thought that the only person who ever came from Manchester England was Steve!!!

            Coincidentally I have just been watching Raymond Burr in a 1958 Perry Mason episode television re-run. Raymond of course was a Canadian – only the “real deal”: 100%!!

            Bit of a Dan-like slender thread here because Raymond Burr and Brando were very friendly. I mentioned before Raymond is one of my very fave TV actors. Please see also my exchange of posts with Flora today on the subject of Burr– it’s always good to hear from her and read her stuff.

            Brando may not have converted his 1989 supporting Oscar nom for Dry White Season into an outright win; but he did receive one final posthumous award as late as last year: the Online Film and Television Association HALL of FAME award for the creation of the “character” The Godfather.

            Back in 2000 shortly before Marlon’s death that same organisation issued him an award for his career acting in its entirety. They mustn’t have read Joel’s book!!

        2. The Bob, great stuff. is it possible Brando was ,in some small way, responding to Joels criticism? if so or not, what an inspiring gesture from a complex legend

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        3. Hey, Bob, you do know that I am Canadian, right?

          My favourite Canadian-born actor is Raymond Burr

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