Want to know the best Julia Roberts movies? How about the worst Julia Roberts movies? Curious about Julia Roberts’ box office grosses or which Julia Roberts movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Julia Roberts movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information and much more.
Julia Roberts (1967-) was born in Smyrna, Georgia. She is a four time Oscar® nominated actress (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, and Erin Brockovich). Roberts won the Oscar® for her performance in Erin Brockovich. She is also a eight time Golden Globe® nominated actress. She has won the Golden Globe® three times (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich).
Her IMDb page shows over 70 acting credits since 1987. This page will rank Julia Roberts movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
When we first started writing movie web pages back in January 2011, the first pages we wrote were on my favorite two current actors, Bruce Willis and Tom Hanks, and on my wife’s favorite actress, Julia Roberts. Since then her page has moved to new website providers and has been updated many times over the years.
Julia Roberts Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Julia Roberts 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 Julia Roberts movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Julia Roberts movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Julia Roberts movies by adjusted worlwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Julia Roberts 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 Julia Roberts movie received.
- Sort Julia Roberts 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.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Julia Roberts
1. Julia Roberts is the sister of actor Eric Roberts of Runaway Train and The Dark Knight fame. She is also the aunt of Emma Roberts of Nancy Drew, Scream 4 and We’re The Millers fame.
2. Julia Roberts has been named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” a record tying eleven times.
3. Julia Roberts has a production company called Red Om Films. That is her husband, Daniel Moder, name spelled backwards.
4. One of Julia Roberts first television appearances was as a juvenile rape victim in the initial season of the series Crime Story in 1986.
5. Meg Ryan was initially under contract to play Shelby, the Julia Roberts role in Steel Magnolias, but the producers let her out of it to play Sally in When Harry Met Sally. It turned out well for both of them ….Harry was a huge hit for Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts got an Oscar nomination for playing Shelby.
6. The very next year Disney did not want to use Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman…..they instead wanted to use….you guessed it…. Meg Ryan in the role of Vivian. Daryl Hannah also turned down the role that would make Julia Roberts a household name.
7. Three of Julia Roberts biggest box office hits were directed by Garry Marshall….they were Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and Valentine’s Day.
8. When Julia Roberts won the Academy Award® for best actress for her role as Erin Brockovich, she famously forgot to thank Brockovich in her acceptance speech. Afterward she was quoted as saying, “It doesn’t bring out the Einstein moment that you hoped it would.”
9. Movies Julia Roberts has turned down over the years….Sleepless in Seattle, Shakespeare in Love, The Blind Side, Godfather 3, While You Were Sleeping and Basic Instinct.
10. Check out Julia Roberts‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Fabulous tribute to a great woman. I have to say Mystic pizza and Erin Brockovich are my favourites.
Thanks for stopping by Ddraigcoch, and thanks for the compliment. I love Erin Brockovich as well….so glad she won the Oscar for that role. I liked Mystic Pizza much better when it first came out….I watched it a few years ago and did not think it aged very well….but it was cool seeing Matt Damon in a small part.
Cogerson – Wow! How detailed are you. I can’t help but to love your charts that you create for movie stars. Julia Roberts is one of my all-time favorite actresses, she is very unique from most of the other actresses of today. Voted up and awesome!
Thanks for the compliment kittythedreamer….and I agree 100% that she is a very unique actress…not only of today but from all generations. Thanks for stopping by.
Very well researched and written page. I enjoyed most of Julia Roberts’ movies. She is a very talented actress who knows how to act out very simple scene that catches audience attention.
Thanks for the compliment Ingenira, I agree with you and your thoughts on Julia and her acting style….I might give my wife a hard time when she wants to watch a Julia Roberts movie….but I know that I enjoy them as well…thanks for checking my Julia page.
Before I delete the old horrible Julia Roberts page forever…I figure I should copy and paste the comments that the old hub received….back then I did not return comments….so my witty return comments were never written.
1. Makingsense wrote 6 months ago “Thats a pretty impressive body of work. Thanks for the page”.
2. From Russell 6 months ago “Mystic Pizza is a favorite movie from the late 80s.”
3. no name 6 months ago wrote “Hook is a terrible movie”.
4. Da Wife 6 months ago wrote “Julia Roberts is my all time favorite! Thanks so much for this!!!!”
5. BOBRules 5 months ago wrote “Great Top 10 for Julia put out by the formula. I love it.”
6. YankeesRule 3 months ago wrote “Still sexy 20 years later. Good list, my wife loves Julia, her favorite is Pretty Woman also. Thanks for posting”
7. Kara 3 months ago wrote “She is the best, thanks for sharing all this great info”
8. hinton1966 2 months ago wrote “The Mexican with her and Brad Pitt was horrible and a waste of time”
9. BERN 1960 2 months ago wrote “Enjoyed seeing Julia Roberts get her oscar…that was a good movie. Thanks for all the info”. Editor’s note..the old page had a you tube showing her win the Oscar…not in the new page.
And finally 6 weeks ago…ruffridyer wrote…”I am a guy but really loved Steel Magnolias. Every female lead did an excellent job.
Just saw Sleeping with the enemy. Julia did a fantastic job as the abused woman taking her life back.
I think people forget Pretty Woman began with the police standing over a dead hooker. A good hub.
And I responded “Hey ruffridyer…..Julia is my wife’s favorite actress so I think I have seen each of her movies at least twice…Steel Magnolias is too sad for repeat viewings according to my wife….during a tour of Hollywood they took us to the block where they filmed the opening scenes of Pretty Woman…….my favorite is Notting Hill…thanks for stopping by.
So now the old Julia Roberts pages goes to a better place.
Good idea to paste the original page comments.
Yep Flora, I was about to delete it forever, when I thought I should save the comments people were nice enough to leave on the page.
Pssst….I haven’t heard back from Julia yet. Anything from your side? 🙂
Not yet Sunshine, but it has to be coming soon…I will let you know as soon as I hear.