Kathy Bates Movies

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

Kathy Bates (1948-) is an Oscar® winning American actress.  Bates’ performance in the 1990 horror film Misery, marked her Hollywood breakthrough.  She won a Best Actress Oscar® for her role in Misery.  Her IMDb page shows over 125 acting credits since 1970.  This page will rank Kathy Bates movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, 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.

2019’s Richard Jewell

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

1990’s Misery

Kathy Bates 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 Kathy Bates movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Kathy Bates movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Kathy Bates movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Kathy Bates 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 Kathy Bates movie received.
  • Sort Kathy Bates movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Worldwide Box Office Numbers Were Not Available For All The Movies
1997’s Titanic

Best IMDb Trivia On Kathy Bates

1. Kathleen Doyle Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948.

2.  After moving to New York City, Kathy Bates worked several odd jobs as well as minor stage roles while struggling to find work as an actress. At one point, she worked as a cashier at the Museum of Modern Art.

3. Kathy Bates was the first woman to win an Academy Award® for Best Actress in a horror/thriller for her role as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990).  Overall she has received 3 acting Oscar® nominations.  Her performance in 2019’s Richard Jewell is getting some serious awards buzz.

4. Dolores Claiborne (1995) is Kathy Bates’  favorite film role.

5. Check out Kathy Bates’ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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