Faye Dunaway Movies

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

Faye Dunaway (1941-) is an Oscar® winning American actress.  Dunaway’s career began on Broadway in the early 1960s. She made her movie debut in 1967’s The Happening.  Her third movie in 1967 was Bonnie and Clyde.  Bonnie and Clyde was a massive hit and made Dunaway a star.  Faye Dunaway’s IMDb page shows 110 acting credits from 1965-2016. This page will rank 41 Faye Dunaway movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  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.

Drivel part of the page:  A few months ago we wrote a page that listed the Top 25 Actress From 1950-2010.  On that page we ranked Dunaway as the 18th best actress from that time frame.  Since we think so highly of her, we figured it was way past due to write a Faye Dunaway UMR page.

Faye Dunaway 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 Faye Dunaway movies by co-stars of her movies
• Sort Faye Dunaway movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Faye Dunaway movies by domestic box office rank by year
• Sort Faye Dunaway movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort Faye Dunaway movies by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received.
• Sort Faye Dunaway movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
• Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Faye Dunaway Table

1. Eleven Faye Dunaway movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 26.82% of her movies listed. The Towering Inferno (1974) is her biggest box office hit.
2. An average Faye Dunaway movie grosses $72.00 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  18 of Faye Dunaway’s movies are rated as good movies…or 43.90% of her movies.  Chinatown (1974) is her highest rated movie while The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) is her lowest rated movie.
4. Eleven Faye Dunaway movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 26.82% of her movies.
5. Five Faye Dunaway movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 12.19% of her movies.
6. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00.  11 Faye Dunaway movie scored higher that average….or 33.33% of her movies. Network (1976) got the the highest UMR Score while The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) got the lowest UMR Score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Faye Dunaway

1. Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida in 1941.

2. Faye Dunaway gave up a Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London to join the original training program at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York.

3.  Faye Dunaway has been nominated for 3 acting Oscars®.  She won for 1976’s Network.

4.  Faye Dunaway is one of only four actresses, along with Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Liza Minnelli, to win both the Academy Award® for Best Actress (Network) and the Razzie Award® for Worst Actress (Mommie Dearest).

5.  Faye Dunaway has been married two times.  She has one child.  Her first marriage was to Peter Wolf.  Wolf was the lead singer for the J. Geils Band.  Their song Centerfold is one of our all-time favorite songs.

6.  Lead roles turned down by Faye Dunaway:  1969’s Paint Your Wagon, 1976’s Taxi Driver, 1976’s Family Plot, 1977’s Julia, 1977’s Fun With Dick and Jane and 1979’s Norma Rae.

7.  Faye Dunaway and James Bond.  Dunaway was considered for a role in 1965’s Thunderball and 1983’s Octopussy. 

8.  Faye Dunaway’s performance as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in 1974’s Chinatown is ranked number 36 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

9.  Faye Dunaway’s cumulative totals:  Adjusted domestic box office:  $2.95 billion.  Her movies received 49 Oscar® nominations…..winning 11 Oscars®.

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

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