Want to know the best George Cukor movies? How about the worst George Cukor movies? Curious about George Cukor’s box office grosses or which George Cukor movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which George Cukor movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
George Cukor (1899-1983) was an American Oscar® winning film director. Cukor made films for over 50 years. He was a dialogue director in the early days of sound films. He earned his first major success with Little Women in 1933. He received an Academy Award® for My Fair Lady in 1964. His IMDb page shows 66 directing credits from 1930-1983. This page ranks 44 George Cukor movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. His short films, his television projects and his uncredited movies were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: We have to pat ourselves on the back. Our movie database is beginning to be pretty darn awesome. Why do we think this? Well….recently we got a request from Chris and Flora to do a UMR page on George Cukor. Well a quick search showed that Cukor had 48 movies that we would have to research to do his page. A quick look at our database showed that we already had 41 of his movies completed….or 85.41% ready to go! So only needing to research 7 movies…Mr Cukor’s movie page moved up the list of pages to do. Working backwards we quickly found box office information on 1969’s Justine and 1944’s Winged Victory. With only 5 movies to go we were already to 1931….when we ran into 5 Paramount/Cukor movies. Sadly we were only able to find box office information on 1 of those movies. Damn you Paramount! So the remaining Paramount movies were not included. Anyway….hope you enjoy your George Cukor page….Flora and Chris.
George Cukor 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 George Cukor movies by the stars of his movies.
- Sort George Cukor movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort George Cukor movies by yearly domestic box office rank or trivia
- Sort George Cukor 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 George Cukor movie received and how many Oscar® wins each George Cukor movie won.
- Sort George Cukor 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.
- Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above George Cukorl Table
- Twenty George Cukor movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 43.18% of his movies listed. My Fair Lady (1964) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average George Cukor movie grossed $115.90 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 32 George Cukor movies are rated as good movies…or 72.72% of his movies. The Philadelphia Story (1940) is his highest rated movie while Rockabye (1932) is his lowest rated movie.
- Twenty-one George Cukor movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 47.72% of his movies.
- Eight George Cukor movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 18.18% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 27 George Cukor movies scored higher that average….or 61.36 of his movies. My Fair Lady (1964) got the the highest UMR Score while Rockabye (1932) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About George Cukor
1. George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in 1899. His parents selected his middle name in honor of Spanish–American War hero George Dewey
2. George Cukor was directing Broadway plays in the late 1920s when Hollywood came calling. He signed a contract with Paramount and was co-directing movies by 1930.
3. George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn made 8 movies together. To see these 8 movies just type in “Katharine Hepburn” in the above search box…and they will pop right up.
4. George Cukor worked on 1939’s Gone With The Wind for two years. He was replaced as director because of constant disagreements with producer David O. Selznick over the script and direction. Cukor even filmed scenes that were left in the movie…but got no screen credit.
5. George Cukor directed 20 different actors in Oscar®-nominated performances: Basil Rathbone, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Hussey, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Angela Lansbury, Ronald Colman, Deborah Kerr, Judy Holliday, James Mason, Judy Garland, Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Maggie Smith. Stewart, Bergman, Colman, Holliday, and Harrison won Oscars® for their performances in Cukor’s movies.
6. George Cukor directed 7 movies that received a Best Picture Oscar® nominations. 1964’s My Fair Lady won the Best Picture Oscars®. Cukor was nominated 5 times for a Best Director Oscar®….he won for My Fair Lady.
7. George Cukor was voted the 18th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
8. George Cukor was often regarded as a “women’s director” because his films frequently are centered around strong female characters.
9. George Cukor’s 44 movies listed on this page grossed $5.05 billion in adjusted domestic box office grosses…..earned 67 Oscar® nominations…..and won 18 Oscars®.
10. George Cukor’s first film starred Cyril Maude (1862-1951)….his last movie starred Meg Ryan (1961-) in her film debut. That’s almost 100 years between when his stars were born….that seems pretty cool. Cukor also directed Jack Lemmon in his film debut.
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ABSOLUTELY LOVE GEORGE CUKOR!!!!! 🙂 Out of the forty four films listed on this page, i have seen eighteen of them with THE WIZARD OF OZ, DINNER AT EIGHT, LES GIRLS, THE WOMEN, and IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU being my favorites among his movies. Both his major musicals, MY FAIR LADY and A STAR IS BORN are good films but both suffer from being too long and for being a bit slow as well in my opinion although Cukor deserves credit for getting some truly incredible performances out of some of the cast members of both films. Judy Garland was FABULOUS in A STAR IS BORN while Rex Harrison was ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC in MY FAIR LADY. Love Audrey Hepburn but she was totally miscast as Eliza in MY FAIR LADY in my opinion. Other Cukor films I have enjoyed include HOLIDAY, GASLIGHT, PAT AND MIKE, ZAZA, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, CAMILLE, and THE MARRYING KIND. In closing, allow me to state that I think George Cukor should won the Oscar in 1957 for his work on the movie known as LES GIRLS. LES GIRLS is an utterly brilliant film which features a magnificent performance from the late, great Kay Kendall that should of won the lady an Oscar. Enough Said.
Hey Greg.Tally count…Flora 31, you 18, me 15 and Steve 12. The Wizard of Oz is an all-time classic movie. There are parts of The Women that I really enjoy….but there are also parts that are now very dated. Good points about the length of My Fair Lady and A Star Is Born. Cukor was loved by his leading ladies. Vivien Leigh thanked him win she won her Oscar for Gone With The Wind. Cukor worked with her, even after he was fired from that movie. I originally did not like The Philadelphia Story but over time it has become one of my favorite movies. Les Girls gets no attention these days. So I am glad you brought it up. Good feedback on Cukor. Thanks for the comment and the visit.
No comments here for over a year, so I thought instead of just reading this page I might as well write something on Mr. Cukor’s page. I have seen 35 of the movies mentioned here, and I found many favourites. Two of his Hepburn collaborations (Little Women and Holiday), Dinner at Eight (love Harlow’s and Marie Dressler’s scene together.
Harlow:”I read a book the other day.”
Dressler: “Read a book?”
Harlow: “Yes,it’s all about civilization or something; a nutty kind of book. You know the guy says machinery is going to take the place of every profession.”
Dressler gives Harlow a quick look-over and says “Oh, my dear. That’s something YOU need never worry about….”), The Women, A Woman’s Face (BOB, I think Joan is great here!), Born Yesterday, David Copperfield, A Double Life, The Model and the Marriage Broker (another great performance by Thelma Ritter), A Star is Born and My Fair Lady. Although not really a good film, I’ve seen Let’s make Love so often that there must be something special about it…and I have a hunch it’s not Yves Montand lol!
Hey Lupino…..thanks for the first Cukor comment in over a year. 35 Cukor movies watched is pretty impressive.
I am sure your Joan compliment will make Bob happy. I thought Joan was easily the best part in The Women.
Thanks for sharing your favorite scene from Dinner At Eight. I think Marilyn Monroe might have something to do with the repeat viewings of Let’s Make Love.
Good feedback.
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By chance I tuned into TCM yesterday and what was on, only Cukor’s David Copperfield. It truly is a fantastic movie and anybody who loves Dickens will love this movie. He captures the whole essence of the story brilliantly. The entire cast are brilliant, Basil Rathborn, W C Fields both stand out. Even the look of it has really stood up well, they’ve probably given it a new print. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
Hey Chris….thanks for the mini-review on David Copperfield. That is one that I want to watch. I need to get into a habit of checking TCM more. David Copperfield was one of the biggest hits of the 1930s….hard to believe that it is already 80 plus years old.
Give me A Double Life and Gaslight. Two classics that almost seem forgotten.
Hey Wetriy…..both are good movies…and both got the lead actors an Oscar. Thanks for stopping by.