Want to know the best Nicole Kidman movies? How about the worst Nicole Kidman movies? Curious about Nicole Kidman box office grosses or which Nicole Kidman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Nicole Kidman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Nicole Kidman (1967-) is an Oscar® winning Australian-American actress. In many ways it is shocking to realize that she was first noticed in 1988’s Dead Calm and became a star in 1990’s Days of Thunder….which means her days as a movie star are closing in on 30 YEARS already! Nicole Kidman’s IMDb page shows over 99 acting credits since 1983. This page will rank Nicole Kidman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, her early Australian movies and 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.
Drivel part of the page: When we first starting writing these pages on Hub Pages back in 2011….we admit…we pretty much ignored actresses. Well this Nicole Kidman page is the 99th page that has featured an actress….which means the next actress will be our 100th actress page. That is still less than actors but at least the tally is started to get respectable.
Nicole Kidman Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Nicole Kidman 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 Nicole Kidman movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Nicole Kidman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Nicole Kidman movies by yearly domestic box office grosses
- Sort Nicole Kidman movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort Nicole Kidman movies by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received.
- Sort Nicole Kidman 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.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Nicole Kidman Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Nicole Kidman
1. Nicole Mary Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1967. Her parents, from Australia, were in Hawaii on educational visas.
2. Nicole Kidman has received 5 Oscar® nominations for her theatrical movies.
3. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar® for 2002’s The Hours.
4. Nicole Kidman was the first Australian actress to win a Best Actress Oscar®.
5. Nicole Kidman has been married two times. Her first marriage was to actor Tom Cruise. Her second marriage was to singer Keith Urban. She has two kids with each of them.
6. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise made three movies together: 1990’s Days of Thunder, 1992’s Far and Away and 1992’s Eyes Wide Shut.
7. Roles Nicole Kidman almost played: Sharon Stone role in Casino, Michelle Pfeiffer role in Batman Returns, Jennifer Garner role in Daredevil, Demi Moore role in Ghost, Robin Wright Penn role in Forrest Gump, Minnie Driver role in Good Will Hunting, Laura Dern role in Jurassic Park, Angelina Jolie role in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Kate Winslet role in Titanic and Sandra Bullock role in While You Were Sleeping.
8. Nicole Kidman’s favorite movies are: 1939’s Gone with the Wind, 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, 1954’s Rear Window, 1973’s The Way We Were, 1978’s Grease and 1996’s Breaking the Waves.
9. Nicole Kidman was close friends with Lauren Bacall. She considered Bacall to be her “American Mother”.
10. Check out Nicole Kidman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Nicole Kidman You Tube Video
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Hey James…thanks for the nice words….interesting selection of the 50 movies you picked.
I find her to be one of the most lovely people in the world.
Hey Mona….I agree with your comment 100%. Thanks for stopping by.
Added Steve’s Nicole Kidman You Tube Video. Added a new table to this page. Added in a new photo for the top part of page. Edited some text to fix errors. Fixed some SEO issues with the page. And added in my comment on Steve’s video and her movies.
“Good video pick. I think she is getting better as she gets older. I have seen almost al of these movies. I have missed #29 Portrait of a Lady (even with Bale in it….have not seen it), #26 Destroyer (pretty new…will see it soon) and #10 Flirting…never seen this movie on any place I could watch it. So that is 37 seen 3 missed…and I am not a huge Kidman fan…imagine if I was. So let’s talk about the ones I have seen. Dogville number two? Probably because many have not seen it….it is visually interesting….but what a downer of an ending. #3 Moulin Rouge is one of the few musicals that I actually like. As for number one? The Hours is a one and done movie for me…2 hours of watching depressed people. #12 Killing of a Sacred Deer…..weird weird movie. #32 Days of Thunder…the most enjoyable of the Kidman/Cruise movies…but still very very silly. Her movies with Caine and Willis are at the bottom…Billy Bathgate has some good scenes…Bedazzled is just bad. #36 The Upside was actually pretty good…WoC loved that…and had me add it to the DVD collection….a movie that professional critics disliked…but the public loved….it had incredible legs at the box office…even crossing $100 million in North America…….it’s final gross was almost 5 times the amount of it’s opening weekend….3.1 multiplier is about normal. Final thoughts: Did not like Aquaman at all…..though Kidman was fine in the movie. The Peacemaker was not a good vehicle for her….action and Kidman…nope. Two favorite Kidman roles….those found in To Die For and Dead Calm. Voted up and shared.”
Hi Bruce, nearly missed your epic post, cheers dude. 37 watched out of 40 is excellent, I’ve seen 22, Flora 4. I’ll keep a watch out for The Upside when it pops up on cable. I’ve read about Dogville and it’s shock ending. My sources seem to like it a lot. I think I’ll skip it. Thanks for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.
Btw Bob, you and Flora share a Cruise/Kidman favorite – Days of Thunder – who would have thought?! [cue gasps]
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Tall girl, and Cruise was probably wearing high heeled shoes! Alan Ladd would have looked like a child next to her! [Stop it Steve!] 😉
HI STEVE When I was growing up in the 1950s my local cinema was called The Castle and as they had the contract to show all the latest Paramount movies that’s where I watched all the Ladd films.
Living in the private house ímmediately next door to The Castle was a real tiny dwarf called Alfie. He never worked but just stood outside whistling and chatting to the passers by when they started to form a queue for the cinema. I of course saw a lot of him on my trips to the Castle and when I got inside Laddie seemed like a giant by comparison to me a small boy of about 12 years of age!
The mega pop star from Belfast where I live, Van Morrison, sang about The Castle and Alfie in his hit A Sense of Wonder, which was about Belfast and íts nearby towns
On and on and on and on we kept singing our song
Over Newtonards and Comber,
Gransha and the Ballystockart Road.
Didn’t I come to bring you a sense of wonder?
Didn’t I come to lift your fiery vision bright?
Didn’t I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame?
Wee Alfie at the Castle Picturehouse on the Castlereagh Road
Whistling on the corner next door
Where he kept Johnny Mack Brown’s horse
Van’s reference to Johnny Mack Brown’s horse derives from the fact that in the 40s and early 50s Johnny Mack made droves of B westerns and The Castle would endlessly regurgitate them so that there was virtually always one showing -eg Law of the Panhandle, West of Wyoming, Colorado Ambush, Short Grass, Stampede, Back Trail etc.
Hence we kids had two standing jokes about where Johnny’s horse stayed when the cinema closed (1) as mentioned by Van, Alfie kept the horse (2) it was Kept in the restrooms of The Castle. Ah nostalgia- Alfie stood outside in the sunshine, whistling as usual, that summer night long ago in 1953 when I queued at The Castle for Chuck’s western Arrowhead!
Hey Bob….good thoughts on Nicole Kidman and on The Castle. 16 Kidman movies ranked..I have seen them all except for Portrait of a Lady. The Secret In Their Eyes is pretty weak when compared to the original version. I agree with you on Eyes Wide Shut…..everytime I watch that Kubrick movie…I end up playing a game of “count the Christmas trees”. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE As I spent half of my young life in The Castle I see my Castle post as [albeit on a very mini scale] complementary to those wonderful recollections of The Tiger.
Therefore I have copied that post and this one to the excellent Tiger page, and indeed for me the link is strengthened by the fact that Laddie was a big part of my Castle years and a Ladd poster [for Drum Beat] is included with the original Tiger material. However if you wish the Tiger page to be retained exclusively for stuff related to just that cinema please remove my additional posts from the Tiger page.
The Castle is still there, its original general structure both inside and outside unchanged except for the removal of the seats and the shell being used as a high grade furniture store. About 5 minutes away from The Castle there is a street corner officially called “John Long’s Corner” a famous Belfast landmark named after some local hero of the previous century. My Ladd-fan pals and I used to meet-up there, linger for a brief discussion and then mosey up to The Castle – as often as not to watch a Ladd movie!
Even in those young years we were aware of the innuendos about Laddie’s shortness of stature that floated around. However we simply laughed at them and indeed for our own private amusement we light-heartedly re-nicknamed that famous Belfast corner “Long Ladd’s Corner!.” Bet you even Steve never realised what a talking point Laddie’s height has been down the years!
PS I agree with you about Secret in their Eyes – awful movie in fact.
16 KIDMAN FLICKS I HAVE SEEN
Batman Forever
Happy Feet
Days of Thunder- my fave Kidman movie
The Others
Cold Mountain
Far and Away
Malice
Eyes Wide Shut – one of weirdest movies I’ve ever seen
Moulin Rouge.
The Peacemaker
To Die For- my 2nd fave Kidman movie
The Secret in their Eyes
Dead Calm
Portrait of a Lady- my 3rd fave because of Barbara Hershey
Trespass
The Railway Man- unwatchable for me so I switched off.
Best POSTERS in video 1/Stepford Wives 2/foreign language one for Secret in their Eyes 3/The Interpreter 4/two for Destroyer 5/The Beguiled 6/Far and Away 7/Australia 8/foreign language one for Golden Compass 9/Boy Erased 10/ two for Aquaman 11/Dead Calm 12/raunchy one for Flirting 13/The Others 14/two for Moulin Rouge
15/Killing of Sacred Deer.
Tremendous run of exciting STILLS my pick of which are 1/Paperboy 2/Invasion 3/Nicole with Gorgeous George 4/Billy Bathgate 5/Nicole and cat 6/Days of Thunder 7/Malice 8/in the arms of Batman 9/two for Australia 10/Happy Feet 11/Dead Calm 12/Aquaman 13/To Die For 14/Very sexy mirror scene 15/Moulin Rouge.
You and Bruce agree on 3 of Nicole’s Top 6 best reviewed. I rate your video 98.5% and found it a huge treat that is scheduled for further viewings by me.
Hi Bob, thanks for the comments, review, generous rating, info and trivia, much appreciated. Glad you liked the posters and stills.
You’ve seen a lot of Nicole Kidman movies, more than I expected. There are 4 in your list I’ve missed. I haven’t seen To Die For in ages, Malice too. She can play the femme fatale very well.
The Paperboy is worth a look, in one scene Kidman as trailer trash in short skirts tells young Zac Efron “If anyone’s gonna pee on you it’s gonna be me!” (after he was stung by jellyfish).
No 10 out of 10s in Kidman’s filmography from my sources, there is a 9 – Dogville. Several scored 8 out of 10 including Moulin Rouge, The Hours and The Others.
Top rated at IMDB is Dogville, no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes is Paddington.
“It was actually an extraordinary reaction for To Die For (1995 at Cannes). We were not in competition, and I remember being terribly scared that people were gonna hate it, but people loved it. That was very, very instrumentally beginning my career in terms of serious film-making. The critics got behind me on that film and that kind of took me from being Tom Cruise’s wife into being something different, which artistically was such a joy for me.”
“It’s so bizarre, I’m not scared of snakes or spiders. But I’m scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!”
Hey Steve….her role in The Paperboy is probably her riskiest role yet. Now that is a strange movie without a doubt. What a cast…and what crazy things they agreed to do on screen. Paddington got great reviews from critics and good reviews from audiences….it is a surprisingly entertaining movie.