James Woods Movies

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

James Woods (1947-) is an Oscar® nominated American actor.  Woods’s best-known roles are  Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Casino (1995), Nixon (1995), Contact (1997), and for providing voices in the Hercules (1997), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). His IMDb page shows over 145 acting credits since 1971.  This page will rank James Woods movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, videos, games, 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.

1986’s Salvador

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

1984’s Once Upon A Time In America

James Woods 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 James Woods movies by his co-stars
  • Sort James Woods movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort James Woods movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort James Woods movies by 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 James Woods movie received.
  • Sort James Woods movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
1995’s Casino

Possibly Interesting Facts On James Woods

1.James Howard Woods was born in Vernal, Utah in 1947.

2. James Woods was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, majoring not in the physical sciences but in political science. He also pursued acting, appearing in 36 plays at MIT, Harvard, and the Theater Company of Boston and also performed in summer stock at the Provincetown Playhouse. He dropped out of MIT during his last year to move to New York and pursue acting full-time.

3. Hades from the Disney franchise, Hercules,  is James Woods’s favorite role and he states that he’ll continue playing the character, whenever needed, until the day he dies because he loves the character so very much.

4. James Woods got his third television role, as Caz in Kojak: Death Is Not a Passing Grade (1974), after Richard Dreyfuss and Martin Sheen had turned it down.

5. James Woods is an avid poker player. He played in the WPT’s Hollywood Home Game series in 2004 for the American Stroke Association charity.  He placed in seventh place at the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the $3000 No-Limit Shootout event and a fifth place in the $1,500 Dealers Choice event at the 2018 WSOP.

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23 thoughts on “James Woods Movies

  1. I saw 14 including top 6 non anime. 10 and favorite contact. 10 not favorite the way we were. 9 not favorites Nixon, any given sunday. lots of eights. hidden gems:nixon, eyewitness, be cool. he seems to make every movie better.

    1. Hey bob cox….thanks for sharing your thoughts on James Woods and his movies. I agree with most of your ratings….with the exception of…..Be Cool. I really really did not like that sequel at all….I wish they had never made it. Chilli Palmer deserved so much better. I also agree that he makes every movie better. Good stuff as always.

    1. Hey Taylor. Very interesting. I liked The Hard Way but it has been years since I last saw…heck it might almost be 30 years since seeing it. Thanks for the feedback.

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