Want to know the best Matt Damon movies? How about the worst Matt Damon movies? Curious about Matt Damon’s box office grosses or which Matt Damon movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Matt Damon movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Matt Damon (1970-) is one of the top forty highest grossing actors of all time. One of his first roles was a very small part in 1988’s Mystic Pizza …… which starred another newcomer…Julia Roberts. His breakthrough movie was 1997’s Good Will Hunting. Not only was Damon nominated as Best Actor for Good Will Hunting, he also won the Oscar® for best screenplay. He shared the Oscar® win with his good friend Ben Affleck who also co-wrote the screenplay.
Since his breakthrough, Damon has starred in box office blockbuster after blockbuster. Some of these hits would include Saving Private Ryan, True Grit, The Departed, the Bourne, all three Ocean’s 11 movies and The Martian. His movies are also well received by the Oscar® voters. To date his movies have picked 56 Oscar® nominations…winning 16 Oscars®. The highlight of that would be The Departed winning the Best Picture Oscar®.
His IMDb page shows 75 acting credits from 1988-2017. This page will rank Matt Damon movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Matt Damon Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Matt Damon 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 Matt Damon movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Matt Damon movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Matt Damon movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Matt Damon movies 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 Matt Damon movie received.
- Sort Matt Damon movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Matt Damon Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Check out Matt Damon’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Your posters illustrate that Matt, like Brad Pitt seemed to have a close and happy screen relationship with Gorgeous George.
Best POSTERS in your video [entries 40-21] 1/Suburbicon 2/two for Great Wall 3/Hereafter 4/foreign language [FL] one for Promised Land 5/Informant 6/two for Titan AE 7/FL for Bourne 2016 8/School Ties 9/FL Good Shepherd 10/FL Green Zone 11/1st one for Adjustment Bureau 12/Suburbicon 13/ Geronimo.
My Pick of the best STILLS [all entries] 1/Bros Grimm 2/Ocean’s 12 3/Bagger Vance 4/Bourne 2016 5/Ocean’s 13 6/Matt with ‘Mary Poppins’ 7/two for Elysium 8/Dogma 9/Bourne Supremacy 10/The Talented Mr Hirschhorn 11/Ocean’s Eleven 12/ Bourne Identity 13/The Martian 14/True Grit 15/Contagion
Best POSTERS [entries 1-20] 1/Behind the Candelabra 2/1st one for Contagion 3/Rainmaker 4/Invictus 5/Syriana 6/Bourne Identity 7/True Grit 8/2nd for Bourne Ultimatum 9/set for Martian 10/set for The Departed 11/Elysium 12/Courage Under Fire 13/Interstellar.
I could have gone on if I had given myself the freedom, but I like to be super-selective and need add only that overall I rated the video 98%. You and Bruce agree on 4 of Matt’s Top 6 reviewed movies. He has Thor and Ponyo in his 6 whereas you go for Good Will Hunting and Interstellar. I certainly support your ranking of ‘Will’ and though I know nothing about Ponyo I’ll support WH there as Northern Ireland’s Liam Neeson is in it!
1/Matt Damon has 17 movies that crossed the Cogerson $100 million barrier of adjusted domestic grosses.
2/Worldwide those 17 grossed almost an inflation adjusted $8.5 billion in total, an average of around half billion dollars per movie. Impressive!
3/Matt’s 4 Bourne films have a total adjusted worldwide gross of approx. $1.76 billion in the stats table above, an average of around $440 million per movie. 2012’s Bourne Legacy, which did NOT star Matt, is considered part of the franchise but didn’t do as well as any of Matt’s Bourne flicks. It’s adjusted worldwide gross was some $305 million. [In Bourne Legacy the lead actor was Jeremy Renner who plays a different character called Aaron Cross].
4/Matt himself is said to have a net worth of $160 million.
5/IMDB credits him with 36 acting awards and 143 nominations.
6/Matt didn’t make the cut for Bruce’s list of 25 greatest male legends 1950-2010 but he was one of those who Bruce says were closely considered for inclusion.
7/Nor did Matt make the cut in Bruce’s book profiling the 50 greatest stars of ALL TIME [both genders]. However Damon is among the further 25 male stars who are given “honorable mentions” in the book [at page 16]. Laddie too is on that list – hurray!
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and comparison, always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters and stills.
Bruce has Ponyo and Thor in his top 6, well I don’t even have them in my top 40!
[cue gasps] Damon had a joke cameo in Thor and I nearly failed to spot him. Ponyo is a Japanese anime, I rarely include them even though I’m a fan because the original voice dubbing was Japanese, and sometimes there are various alternate English soundtracks (Akira for example).
My imagination or is Matt’s filmography a cut above his pal Ben’s in quality? Let’s add up my video ratings for their top 20s and compare- Ben Afflecks top 20 total is 146, an average of 7.3 per film. Matt Damon’s top 20 total is 154, an average of 7.7 per film. Not a huge difference I suppose.
How do they compare to a Hollywood legend like Humphrey Bogart? His top 20 total is 166 by my ratings board, for an average rating of 8.3 per film.
One film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources and that was Saving Private Ryan. Four more scored 9 – Syriana, The Departed, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Ultimatum.
“They should give the Oscars out 10 years later, like the way they do the Hall of Fame in baseball. They do it in five years, but if you did 10 years later, if this year (2010), we were voting on what was the best picture of 2000, I think it would be much more honest. It’s like, when you pick up great old movies and you go, why the hell didn’t Brando win the Oscar for this one? Who won that year? Whatever the sizzle was about that year. 50 years later you’re looking at a movie and going, this is a historic cinematic performance.”
“James Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks martinis and cracks jokes. Jason Bourne is a serial monogamist whose girlfriend is dead and he does nothing but think about her. He doesn’t have the support of gadgets, and he feels guilty for what he’s done. I just think fundamentally they’re just very different things.”
“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day. “Here’s Matt at home learning his lines. Here’s Matt researching in his local library”. A few hours of that and they’d go home.”
HI STEVE Thanks for the feedback. I leave assessments of comparative QUALITY of movies as reflected by ratings to you and WH. However ON PAGE 16 OF HIS BOOK Bruce lists Matt [but NOT Ben] among the “honorable mentions” ie those who did not make the Top 50 cut but were probably in the next 50 all- time greats. WH also says that Matt was one of those closely considered for inclusion in the Cogerson Top 25 male actors 1950-2010 though again he did not make the final cut. Once more Ben was apparently not even considered for inclusion.
I would therefore take it that Bruce’s system would see Matt as the more important star and indeed the box office stats would also support that conclusion. Bruce no longer provides a ready reckoner but my own quick tallies suggest that Matt’s adjusted domestic grosses are about $1 billion greater than Ben’s and that Damon’s worldwide adjusted grosses are also much better than Affleck’s-Matt Top 30, $10.5 billion/Ben’s Top 30, $7.2 billion
Interesting point about 10 year Oscar cycles and of course I like the quote “Why the hell didn’t Brando win the Oscar for this one?”. Many moviegoers must have wondered that at various stages down the years – take Joel and me for instance!
By the way Lens Steveman sounds much more iconic and macho than Steve Lensman so you should use the former in future. Lens! – it reminds me of the ‘rugged’ stage names in old Hollywood such as Rock [Hudson] Race [Gentry] Tab [Hunter] Rick [Jason] Whip [Wilson] Lash [Larue]Lloyd “Crash” Corrigan and Clarence Linden Crabbe 2nd aka “Buster” Crabbe.
Mind you Bogie used to sneer at the actors who adopted such Christian names and he would often ridicule Hudson in particular at social gatherings about “Rock” saying to him openly at one function “Would you not have been better calling yourself Dung Heap than Rock Hudson?”
Hi Bob, good reply thanks, last paragraph made me laugh. 🙂
I like ‘Lens Steveman’ too, it’s unique, I googled and the only entries were from this site.
There’s an American director called Len Wiseman, sort of similar. He directed the Underworld films and was married to Kate Beckinsale for a while, lucky bugger.
HI LENS
Some wannabe movie star somewhere waiting for an audition could be looking at these exchanges and saying to himself “Lens! That would suit me. I must suggest it during my audition.”
I think that the reasons Bogie taunted Rock so much was (1) he didn’t think much of Hudson’s acting or the type of movies he made (2) Humph was homophobic.
For a second I thought this was a new page, wondering how you’ve avoided Matt Damon for so long. I found my comment it’s actually older than the date on it, originally posted in hubpages about 4 or 5 years ago. Seems we didn’t care about tally counts back then. 🙂
So, how many have I seen from Damons filmography.. 31 out of 42. Favorites include the Bourne trilogy, Ocean’s Eleven, Titan AE, Courage Under Fire, Saving Ryan’s Privates, The Departed and The Martian.
I was disappointed with Interstellar, some interesting ideas but way too much sobbing and crying from the entire cast for the entire length of the film. The Martian was a refreshing antidote to Interstellar.
Movies I’ve missed include – Bagger Vance, Rounders and Invictus.
This is a rarity – I’m happy with the critics and UMR chart toppers. Nothing to shake my head or roll my eyes at this time. 🙂
Might go and see David Webb some time this week. I hope it’s as good as the previous three.
Lovely work Bruce. Voted Up!
Hey Steve….since it was a Matt Damon weekend…I thought I would give his page a quality spot on our website. The comment you found was indeed from 5 years ago…and yes we did not give our tally counts. I am at 39 of his 42 movies….which I find amazing since I do not feel I am a huge fan of his. Of the ones you liked…I would put Private Ryan, Titan AE and The Martian in my Top 3. As for the ones you missed…Rounders is worth checking out. Bagger Vance and Invictus are ok….but one and done ones for me. David Webb had a great first weekend….though I do not think his word of mouth is going to be too strong. As always…your input is greatly appreciated.
I love Matt Damon. Just got back from seeing Jason Bourne. It is good but not his best Bourne movie but still wort checking out.
Hey Candice…thanks for the mini review on Jason Bourne. I appreciate the visit and the comment.
I was never a huge fan of the Bourne Trilogy; however, I am a huge fan of his movies and, so far, my favorite of his has to be True Grit! I love that movie.
Hey KDUBarry03….the Bourne movies are not my favorite either….I find it real hard to separate the three movies….lots of action not a ton of plot in those movies…but man are they successful…..I also agree with you that True Grit is awesome. Thanks for stopping by, the birthday wishes for him and for the comment.