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Joanne Woodward (1930-) is an Oscar® winning American stage, film, and television actress. She is best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1957’s The Three Faces of Eve as well as her many projects with her late husband Paul Newman. Her IMDb page shows 78 acting credits since 1952. This page will rank 29 Joanne Woodward movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her many television roles and her movies not released in North American theaters were not included on this page. This page comes from a request by Mike.
Joanne Woodward Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Joanne Woodward 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.
- Column One is the name of the Woodward movie and possibly the link for the trailer for that movie
- Sort Joanne Woodward movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Joanne Woodward movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Joanne Woodward movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Joanne Woodward 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 Oscar® wins each Joanne Woodward movie received.
- Sort Joanne Woodward movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Joanne Woodward
1. Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born in the Thomasville, Georgia in 1930.
2. When Joanne Woodward was 9 years old, Joanne traveled with her mother to Atlanta for the premiere of 1939’s Gone with the Wind. During the parade, she leapt into a limousine carrying Laurence Olivier and sat in his lap as she had a crush on him after seeing 1939’s Wuthering Heights. Years later when the two were working on 1977’s Come Back, Little Sheba, Olivier claimed to remember the incident vividly.
3. Joanne Woodward developed her craft at the Actor’s Studio. She was hired as an understudy for the Broadway play, Picnic. Any guesses who was the understudying the male lead?…..Mr. Paul Newman.
4. Third time is the charm. Joanne Woodward won her Oscar® for only her third movie…..1957’s Three Faces of Eve.
5. Joanne Woodward was nominated for 4 acting Oscars®. She received 10 Golden Globe® acting nominations (movies and television roles).
6. Joanne Woodward was married 1 time and had three children. She was married to Paul Newman from 1958 to his death in 2008.
7. Joanne Woodward’s favorite movies are 1939’s Gone with the Wind, 1939’s Wuthering Heights , 1940’s The Philadelphia Story and 1938’s Jezebel.
8. Joanne Woodward’s all-time favorite actress is Bette Davis and her all-time favorite actor is Laurence Olivier. Other major favorites of hers include John Garfield, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn and Clark Gable.
9. Paul Newman on his marriage to Joanne Woodward. “I don’t like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?”…one of my all-time favorite comments.
10. Check out Joanne Woodward’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Added Steve’s Woodward video to this page…our thoughts on the video and her career.
Hey Steve…..let’s see…I have seen 12 of these movies…many with her husband Paul Newman. #28 Harry and Son….actually saw this one in theaters…do not remember her part. #27 Rally Around Flag…silly movie. #25 A New Kind of Love…another silly movie. #23 WUSA….my least favorite Newman movie. #22 Winning….decent auto racing movie #17 The Drowning Pool…this ain’t no Harper #16 The End…has some funny moments #13 From The Terrace…ok drama #5 Age of Innocence…not my favorite Marty movie #4 Three Faces of Eve…great perfromance by her in this one #3 The Long Hot Summer….she and Newman at their peak #2 Philadelphia….strong support for Tommy Have not seen Rachel, Rachel. Good video. Voted up and shared at our Joanne page.
Hi Bruce, you and Flora are well ahead of me on the Woodward tally, I’ve seen just 2 – The End and A Kiss Before Dying, your tally 12 and Flora 16.
Thanks for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated. A link to your Joanne Woodward page – https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/joanne-woodward-movies/
Hello Bruce,
Very good page on a very nice and great actress of Hollywood 50 and 60;
She was with Paul Newman a « royal couple « in the same way than Carole Lombard and Clark Gable in the 30;
My film fav stay the long hot summer and i like very much Mr and Mrs Bridge;
To night we are going to change and start the new year 2018;
I wish you a very GOOD RÉVEILLON and a great party for to night , for you and all your family and of course all the commenters like lupino, Steve ,Bob, Flora , Laurent and the others because i read all the comments with great interest;
A Bientôt
Pierre
Hey Pierre.
1. Thanks for stopping by…..it has been a little while….you should check out our latest page….https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/umr-by-the-numbers-2017/ You, my friend, are mentioned in that one.
2. I like your description of Newman and Joanne Woodward…”Royal Couple”.
3. I have not seen Mr. and Mrs. Bridge….but I will one day…your high praise of that movie makes me want to see the movie.
4. Thanks for the GOOD RÉVEILLON greetings….and the same to you as well.
Thanks for all the visits and comments.
Hey Pierre,
It’s almost 3 in the morning here, just back from my New years eve party, dead tired but somehow not ready for bed ? so I checked in here for a moment…Happy New year to you, too ? Hope you had an awsome evening!
Hey Lupino…..like I mentioned in my return comment to Pierre….you should check out our https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/umr-by-the-numbers-2017/ too. As you have a mention in there as well. Happy New Year.
Hello Lupino,
A very great evening and i never stopped to drink but now it is finished and to morrow it is a back to work
Happy New Year and see you for another comments
Pierre
Very cool.
I am a little disappointed in myself here…I really like Joanne Woodward, yet I have only seen 15 of the movies listed…always wanted to see Glassmenagerie and Rachel, Rachel, but no luck yet. My faves are From the Terrace, Philadelphia, No Down Payment, The long, hot Summer, Big Hand for the little Lady and Summer wishes, Winter dreams, though maybe Miss Sidney is responsible for this ? I have seen her AA winning performance as Eve, but its been a long time and I dont remember having been that impressed back then. Anyway, a great career, an even greater marriage or so it seems. As always, an interesting page on a lady well deserving her own UMR recognition ?
Hey Lupino
1. Well you might be disappointed…but your 15 Woodward movies is the most in our tally contest.
2. You 15, me 12, Flora 10 and Steve at 2.
3. When I got to Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams…my first thought was….”that is going to be a hard movie to find”….but then I saw it was S.S.’s Oscar nominated movie role…and I thought cool it is already done….thanks to Lupino.
4. Of your other favorites…I liked Philadelphia and The Long Hot Summer too.
5. Newman and Woodward’s last work together was the television mini-series…Empire Falls…..they give wonderful performances….I have it on DVD….and all of these Woodward talk has me thinking it is time to watch it again.
6. Not a fan of Tenn. Williams movies at all….so watching The Glass Menagerie is far down my list of things to do….but I want to see Rachel Rachel.
7. Thanks for sharing your Joanne Woodward Movie thoughts.
1 Probably not even the most die hard Joanne Woodward fan would argue that she was ever as big a star as her husband but the latter became such a legend and megastar that she could have been completely overshadowed by him whereas in my opinion that was not the case and I agree with Bruce that Newman/Woodward together were one of Hollywood’s most successful screen couples of all time.
2 Especially in the years between 1957 and 1969 Joanne not only shared several highly successful collaborations with her husband in which she was his leading lady [and even his star in Rachel Rachel which he merely directed and she was billed alone above the title] but was in a number of other movies in which she was either THE star or one of them – Three Faces of Eve, No Down payment, The Sound and the Fury, The Fugitive Kind, A Fine Madness and A Big Hand for the Little Lady [aka Big Deal at Dodge City]. In flicks like these she was able to command star billing alongside prominent males of the time such as Brynner, Connery, Brando and Hank Fonda.
3 Accordingly I feel that Joanne fully merits her own Cogerson page which I welcome. My personal favourite Woodward roles were in A Kiss before Dying where I thought Robert Wagner too was at his best, Count Three and Pray with Van Heflin and Big Deal at Dodge City as it was called over here. I remember seeing it while on holiday in the British Channel Islands in the summer of 1966 and found Joanne a joy to watch in that particular movie and I loved the surprise ending to the movie.
Hey Bob
1. I agree with you…Woodward was a great actress…..but her hubby was a superstar.
2. I remember taking a class in college that dealt with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs…we had to pick some who had reached the “self-actualization” level of the pyramid. I picked them….at the time Newman’s Own was just getting started….this is a long winded way of saying…I am glad you agree with me about them being the most successful screen couples of all-time.
3. The fact that almost everybody but Newman got an Oscar nomination for Rachel, Rachel…really shocked Newman….he got a Best Producer nomination….but he did not get Best Director nomination…which back then almost every Best Picture nominated movie got a Best Director nomination….but not Newman.
4. I agree her run from 1957 and 1969 was truly impressive.
5. I have not seen A Kiss Before Dying…..but I want to…..before doing my Wagner page….I was not even aware of that movie.
6. Thanks for sharing your summer of 1966 Woodward memories.
Happy New Year.
Not an actress I’m familiar with movie-wise. I’ve only seen two films from the chart – A Kiss Before Dying and The End. Only knew her from her marriage to Paul Newman.
Married to Newman from 1958 to his death in 2008. In comparison Liz Taylor got married a dozen times during that period. tsk tsk 🙂
There are no films here that I’m dying to see, well maybe Winning, Newman’s big racing film. Garner had Grand Prix, McQueen Le Mans and Cruise Days of Thunder.
Vote Up!
Hey Steve.
1. Thanks for stopping by.
2. Tally count….me at 12…Flora at 10….and you at 2?…..wow you are not much of a Newman fan at all.
3. Her Hollywood marriage is a great goal for all actors that get married….Brad and Angelina only broke up 39 years early.
4. Hmmmm…..which ones can I recommend to you….Winning was ok…..Robert Wagner is pretty good in that one…..but I would say Philadelphia (Plus you get Hanks), Three Faces Of Eve (Her Oscar winning role) and The Drowning Pool (Newman as a detective) are worth watching.
5. Avoid WUSA at all costs….easily the worst Newman movie that I have ever watched.
Good feedback as always.