Jeff Bridges Movies

Jeff Bridges in 1998's The Big Lebowski...it seems that the "Dude's" cult status grows every year
Jeff Bridges in 1998’s The Big Lebowski…it seems that the “Dude’s” cult status grows every year

Want to know the best Jeff Bridges movies?  How about the worst Jeff Bridges movies?  Curious about Jeff Bridges’s box office grosses or which Jeff Bridges movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jeff Bridges 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.

Jeff Bridges (1949-) is an Oscar® winning American actor and singer.  He is part of the Bridges acting family….as he is the son of the late Lloyd Bridges (High Noon) and the brother of Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys) .  The three Bridges have a total of 497 IMDb acting credits.  Jeff Bridges has been nominated for 7 Oscars® and 4 Golden Globes®….he won an Oscar® and a Golden Globe® for his role in 2010’s Crazy Heart.

His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1951. This page will rank Jeff Bridges movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, cameos and his straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Bridges in 2008's Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Bridges in 2008’s Iron Man

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

Jeff Bridges Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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Jeff Bridges in his latest movie....2014's The Giver
Jeff Bridges in his latest movie….2014’s The Giver

Possibly Interesting Facts About Jeff Bridges

1. Jeff Bridges was born Jeffrey Leon Bridges on December 4th 1949 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and the younger brother of actor Beau Bridges.

2. The three acting Bridges have a total of 477 acting credits on IMDB. Lloyd has 216 credits, Beau has 180 credits and Jeff has 81 credits.

3. After appearing with his father in some television and stage shows, Jeff Bridges starting appearing in movies in 1970. It only took him three movies before he received his first Oscar® nomination for acting. That movie was 1971’s The Last Picture Show.

4. Jeff Bridges has been nominated for 6 Oscars® for acting. Three times for Best Supporting Actor: 1971’s The Last Picture Show, 1974’s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and 2000’s The Contender. And three times for Best Actor: 1984’s Starman, 2009’s Crazy Heart and 2010’s True Grit. He won the Oscar® for Best Actor in Crazy Heart.

5. Roles Jeff Bridges turned down or was seriously considered for: Pretty Woman, Taxi Driver, Speed, Fatal Attraction, Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Jaws, 48 Hours, An Officer and a Gentleman, Escape from New York and 1982’s The Thing.

6.  Jeff Bridges has been married one time. In 1977 he married Susan Geston. They have three daughters: Isabelle, Jessica and Hayley.

7. Jeff Bridges is also a singer, cartoonist and photographer. His debut musical album was called Be Here Soon and was released on August 15th 2011. Be Here Soon debuted on Billboard’s 200 in the 25th position. His cartoon artwork can be seen in the movies K-Pax and The Door in the Floor. His photography is mostly taken on film sets and can be seen on his excellent website….http://www.jeffbridges.com/

8. Premiere Magazine ranked his performance as “The Dude” in 1998’s The Big Lebowski as the 90th Greatest Performance of All Time. Not too bad for a film that was quickly dismissed when it was first released. Time however, has been very kind to “The Dude” and The Big Lebowski as it has earned classic status over the last fifteen years.

9. Seven times Jeff Bridges has played a character named “Jack”. His personal favorite movies are 1993’s American Heart and 1993’s Fearless.

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

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Jeff, Lloyd and Beau Bridges...a combined 497 acting credits.
Jeff, Lloyd and Beau Bridges…a combined 497 acting credits.

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  1. Peter Hitchins of the British Mail on Sunday praised Jeff Bridges’ remake of True Grit. One of the things Hitchens most admired about Jeff’s movie was that every word spoken by the stars could be clearly heard whereas, Hitchens complained, many other modern actors often tended to be incoherent mumblers [Gee, now where have I heard that before? ! ]

    Best POSTERS in entries 50-26 in your Bridges video are I think – both for 7th Son, 8 million Ways to Die, the 1st one for King Kong [a real stunner] the racy one for Against All Odds [a remake of Mitchum’s Out of the Past aka Build my Gallows High] The Vanishing, The Giver[ I was surprised Jeff got billed above Streep given that in the past number of years she had got billed above stars like Hanks and Cruise] Winter Kills [with a strong supporting cast including artists like Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone and director John Huston] Tideland, Tucker, and American Heart.

    In your poster for the latter Jeff has joined the “Shirts Off Club” whose membership includes Jason Statham and Matthew McConaughey.On chat shows etc Matt Damon constantly pokes fun at his pal McConaughey’s habit of baring his chest in movies. I have never notice that in Mc’s case but during my fleeting glances at some of Statham’s movie I’ve seen him do it and I found it no laughing matter

    Superb STILLS 50-26 The opening family photo, with Kim Basinger, in RIPD, as Wild Bill, the lobby card for the Morning After, Jeff with his old dad, separate ones of Jeff with the lovely Jessica Lange and Sally Field, and Jeff with the young Arnie. The latter should be a collector’s item as there was no hint then[1976] of the mega movie stardom that awaited Arnold.

    Part 2 tomorrow

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    2. Hi Bob, where’s part 1 then? 😉

      The video is only 13mins long, you could have finished off your review, and here I am with some time on my hands. Bruce hasn’t got a new page out, slacker! 🙂

      Someone on my video channel was wondering why the studios never teamed Jeff with Kurt Russell, two cult favorites together. Missed opportunity. Snake Plissken and The Dude.

      Oh well let me browse my stamp collection while I wait…..

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      1. HI STEVE I usually go through your videos a couple of times to firm up my scores before going into print so however long one of your videos lasts I would often spend double or triple that amount of time on it.

        For example in Part One I highlighted the particular excellence of your 1st Kong poster in my estimation and after a 2nd viewing of the video I upped its individual score from 99% to 100% personal satisfaction rating and my overall marking for the entire presentation is 98.5% as I consider it one of your very best profiles of any star.

        Best POSTERS in entries 1-25 are for me all of the ones for the 2 Tron flicks, both ones for Kingsman, The Contender, Sea Biscuit, foreign language one for Thunderbolt/Lightfoot, Fat City, 2 for Only the Brave, Iron Man and Hell or High Water.

        I went to see that last one a few months back and at first I wrongly thought it was a remake of my Widmark’s cold war 1954 film Hell AND High Water. Jeff gets top billing in his film but his role is officially listed as a supporting one and it was in that category that he got his Oscar nom. Nonetheless I was mesmerized by his authoritive and charismatic performance as a Texas Ranger nearing retirement who is still determined to see justice done. What an actor and towering screen personality!

        Great STILLS in your Bridges treat are (1) Tron (2) lobby card for Jagged Edge with Jeff and Glenn Close [I went to see Glenn last night in “The Wife” her latest movie which is showing now at our local movie art house. It and she were great 75% rated by IMDB and an even better 78% from Work Horse] (3) Hearts of the West (4) Starman (5) with Clint, here he too is one of the “Shirts Off” boys!] (6) Fearless (7) True Grit and (8) The Big Lebowski

        Over a period of 70 years Jeff Bridges’ output has been prolific as demonstrated by the 65 movies listed in the above table and IMDB gives details of 46 acting awards and an astonishing 106 nominations acrosss the board that Jeff has earned. His personal net worth is said to be 70 million dollars.

        You and Bruce agree on 4 of the Top 6 best reviewed Bridges films and whereas you list Hell or High Water as your No 6 it tops The Work’s 6 so I am on the side of the bad guy on this one – sorry Steve.!

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        1. Hi Bob, sorry I rushed you, thanks as always for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and comparison, much appreciated.

          Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.

          Do you sometimes pause the video to have a good look at a poster or still or just let it run? To pause the picture all you have to do is tap the video screen with your mouse pointer, tap again to resume play.

          And don’t forget you can expand the picture to fill your screen. Let me know if you don’t know how.

          It’s been a while since I last watched Hell or High Water, I have it in the collection but I think I’ve only watched it once. Time to give it a spin and work out why Bruce has it at the top of Jeff’s chart. I saw similarities with No Country For Old Men that time I watched it.

          Two films scored 10 out of 10 on Jeff’s video chart – The Last Picture Show and The Fisher King. Two scored 9 – Bad Company and Fearless. There are 16 films scoring 8 out of 10 including Iron Man, Hell or High Water, True Grit and The Big Lebowski.

          Tops at IMDB are The Big Lebowski and The Last Picture Show, no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes is The Last Picture Show.

          Bruce and I agree with 4 titles in the top 6, but in different order. Surprised to see The Fisher King so low on his chart, it’s not a favorite of mine but it is highly rated, especially from my sources.

          Jeff on The Big Lebowski – “It’s kind of a masterpiece, man. It’s like The Godfather – I see it on the tube and I think I’m just going to watch a couple of scenes, but I end up watching the whole thing.”

          “I’m glad I survived the ’60s. They were dangerous. Fun, too. Everything in your life teaches you something.”

          “My father, unlike his father, was very supportive of all his kids getting involved in movies and acting in general. He loved what he did and wanted to turn his kids onto it. He thought it was a great way of meeting people, being creative, and traveling around the world and doing what you love to do.”

          “I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there’s some redundancy in that… I’m very pleased with my career, the stories I’ve told. I consider myself very lucky as to how it all came down. I don’t really care about having more fame than I have.”

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          1. Good stuff Bob and Steve on Jeff Bridges. Just added Steve’s video to this page. Our Jeff Bridges page has been one of our least viewed pages….we did our Bridges page back in our Hub Page days…hopefully Steve’s video will have more success than we have had.

          2. HI STEVE

            I like running through your videos two or three times for (1) the pleasure of the viewing itself (2) and to see if I rate each poster/still the same as I did the first time round after I have taken a bit of a break from watching the video and the mind can come at it fresh.

            I agree with you about The Fisher King and in fact I would probably put it in my top 3 all time Jeff Bridges movies.

            Funny how the the mind plays tricks on one about the passage of time When I wrote to you earlier I said I had watched Hell or High Water a few months ago, but if you look at my post of 29 Sept 16 [4.32 am] to Bruce just a few posts below you will see that THAT was the year when I watched Hell or High Water. Almost frightening how quickly time sees to pass.

            Anyway thanks for your comprehensive feedback and the quotes. Hope you are having a good weekend.

    1. Hey Laura…..glad you liked Hell or High Water…..it is getting some of the best reviews of his career….which is actually saying quite a lot for a man who’s career is now 50 years old. I can see him picking up a Best Supporting Actor nomination….Golden Globes come out next month…should be interesting.

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  3. MORNIN BRUCE

    1 Last night I saw Jeff in Hell or High Water a riveting male-duo Bonnie and Clyde type flick and it reminded me that I wanted to do a post after your recent Bridges update.

    2 Jeff’s father Lloyd was best known to my generation for his TV series Sea Hunt (1958-61) and for the stable fight scene in High Noon in which he attempts to put Cooper on horse and run him out of town.

    3 I never saw any of Jeff’s early 1970s movies when they were initially released and the first he came to my attention was in King Kong of 1976 but as the Big Guy was the star of that one and among the humans my focus was on the lovely Jessica Lang I did not really take Jeff under my notice.

    4 Boy could I not see the wood for the trees! As you have carefully articulated above Jeff has over the years generated a string of highly acclaimed performances picking up an Oscar in the process; and he has achieve the rare feat of remaking a classic movie that pleased the critics and in which he successfully reprised a character for which an All Time Great had won an Oscar-The Duke/ True Grit Indeed IMDB rates the Bridges version the more highly of the two.

    5 In Hell or High Water Jeff was riveting and it’s amazing how since his debut 65 years ago and after all his great success as an actor he continues to improve even further. I say 65 years because of course he made his debut at the age of 2 as a ‘cameo ‘baby’ in a 1951 B movie starring Lizabeth Scott called The Company She Keeps [Good job Bud debuted the year before or Jeff’s publicists would be saying “Before Brando there was Jeff’s Bridges”! ] .

    6 I think that I’ve said before that the beauty of your site is that it not only – deservedly – recognises the Great Box Office Stars down the years but also tips its hat to actors who have contributed to the cinema a fine body of artistic work, so please my appreciation of your page on Jeff.

    NB: Double feature night ! Got home and then watched With Savage Intent a TV movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery and performing a small cameo in it was an elderly lady who as a young woman became Tarzan’s definitive mate !

    BOB

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    1. Hey Bob.
      1. Thanks for the mini-review on Hell or High Water…it is getting great reviews and has done pretty well at the box office….I look forward to seeing it.
      2. Yep…his dad…who was the number 1 dad on an Seinfeld episode was one of the ones that did not help Coop in High Noon….no matter how many times I see that movie….I always hope the Bridges will change his mind and help….lol.
      3. I think King Kong is when I first noticed Jeff Bridges…I saw that one in a packed theater…..and Kong was a huge hit…I even had a Kong board game…ah…childhood memories.
      4. I think you are not the only one that failed to notice the career of Jeff Bridges…his 6 $100 million hits is one of the lowest totals for people with UMR pages….he seemed to peak a few years ago with Iron Man, Tron Legacy and True Grit….but since then it was been one box office disappointment after another.
      5. I am glad that Hell or High Water is doing so well….as I like him….and he is getting up there in age….so not thinking he has too many great performances left….maybe he will sneak out a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this movie….that would be very cool.
      6. Thanks for the kind words….this page has never been one of the big view getters…..but I think when people do find this page….his career really jumps out at them.
      Sounds like you watched a great double feature…with my trip….it has been almost 2 weeks since I watched a movie…that is one of my longest droughts in the last 5 years.
      As always thanks for the comment and the visit.

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  4. I do not know if I ever wrote on the Jeff Bridges page or not.

    The Last Picture Show comes to mind right away because of your interview of your father-in-law.

    I am, of course, a big fan of Lloyd Bridges too.

    I recently saw Jeff B. in a film with an old Robert Ryan. It was about feuding families. And by this time Robert Ryan was working non-stop because his wife had recently died and it was his way of dealing with his grief.

    Jeff and Robert were on opposite sides.

    The nme of the film was Lolly Madonna XXX and the title *sounds* like it is a rating of adult violence and revenge, and it is certain a film of vengence. But the title refers to the inscription on the back of a photo of a young woman who is meant to be sent to a family who will take care of her and one of the male characters will marry her – ie a mail order bride, so to speak.

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    1. Hey Flora….a quick check shows that you commented on this Jeff Bridges page during the HubPages days….and your tally then (in 2011) was 13. You are right the Tiger theater would have fit in very nicely in the town in The Last Picture Show. Bridges and Ryan actually made two movies together….Lolly Madonna and The Iceman Cometh. Thanks for explaining the meaning of the title of the movie……seems that they picked a pretty bad title for a movie. Thanks for returning to this Jeff Bridges page.

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  5. Just saw Thunderbolt and Lightfoot today–maybe my favorite with The Last Picture Show. I could watch any of his movies anytime. I think the role he played in Ironman was my least favorite. Enjoyed Against All Odds, 8 Million Ways to Die and True Grit. Cogerson–you’ve got this genre nailed. What other challenge are you gearing up for? Can’t wait.

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    1. Hey ajwrites57. The Last Picture Show is a classic. Sorry you did not like Iron Man. Thanks for the nice words….as for what is next….just keep on writing about various movie stars and all of their movies…closing in on 250 performers…enough for a book?…..now that would be cool.

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