Want to know the best Norman Jewison movies? How about the worst Norman Jewisonn movies? Curious about Norman Jewison box office grosses or which Norman Jewison movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Norman Jewison movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Norman Jewison (1926-2024) was a 7-time Oscar® nominated Canadian film director and producer. Jewison has earned three Best Director Oscar nominations in three different decades: 1967’s In the Heat of the Night , 1971’s Fiddler on the Roof and 1987’s Moonstruck. His IMDb page shows 4 directing credits from 1952 to 2003. This page ranks 25 Norman Jewison Movies Best to Worst in 6 different categories. This page comes from a request by Mike.
Norman Jewison Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Norman Jewison 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.
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Norman Jewison Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Rest in peace Norman Jewison. The Canadian born filmmaker was 97.
Hey Flora sad news. Rest in Peace Mr. Jewison.
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HI BRUCE
Thanks for your feedback on my comments about Tom Hardy/Michael Fassbender and your comprehensive reply to my Norman Jewison post. It’s always interesting to me to have YOUR take on the highs and lows of a star’s career given your very wide knowledge especially regarding Oscar love etc.
If I interpreted you correctly you agree with me that Tom Hardy gave possibly his finest performance(s) as the Kray twins and it struck me that Hardy started acting long after Joel’s book was written. Accordingly it occurred to me that it would be interesting to keep a tally of how often you and I agree when Hirsch DOESN’T come between us!
I have now read quite a few of the Master’s reviews and he is highly complimentary about many performers and indeed it almost seems as if he liked everybody except Mumbles, the Duke, Chuck and Crawford. As they are all my idols I now must wonder if Joel knew me from somewhere and had simply got it in for ME! Surely you wouldn’t agree with him that Robert Preston for example [excellent though he was in certain roles] was a far superior actor and performer to Brando?
Yes Bob…we agree on Tom Hardy and Legend. I was so surprised that Legend was ignored here in the States. A good movie with a great Hardy performance. I actually think we agree on most things. Just when we do disagree, we are so far apart there is little middle ground. Hopefully, now that you have had a chance to read his book…you are seeing the format versus the commentary that has been so influential on me. I have yet to start marking up my “new” “old” Joel book….but I think I have done about 5 or 6 more Joel subjects that are in the book. As for Preston versus Brando…..yes I agree that Brando is the better actor. Good feedback as always.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the additional response as I know how busy you are.
Even where we’ve been far apart I have always respected your views and have therefore invariably closely considered your observations and indeed have often benefited from a new take from you on the matters concerned and from the additional information that you usually provide to support your arguments. In fairness too you have never shown me [or any of your viewers] disrespect even when you do disagree with what we are saying. .
Legend didn’t draw big audiences here in Belfast either and in fact I had to go to the local small arthouse to see it. Maybe it did OK in England as the Krays were of course English and were particularly notorious over there where they had influence in even high political circles. Certainly those boys made Russell Crowe look like The Good Samaritan in The Bible.
Even sadder that Legend did not do well in your area. The Krays were some rough brothers for sure. Thanks for all the information, Bob….it is greatly appreciated.
IMDB credits Norman Jewison with 28 acting awards and 25 nominations and he is said to have a current net worth of $19 million. The statistics reflected in the above table are pretty solid for him as well-
1/ 50% [ie 12] of the total films listed have crashed the Cogerson $100 million barrier and their overall average per movie is a robust $175 million.
2/ Approx 71% [ie 17] of the films in the table have an adjusted gross of $80 million. $80 million is the general rule of thumb that the cinema marketplace reportedly sets today as a bottom line for recognising a movie as at least a respectable hit with domestic audiences.
3/ The average gross of all 24 films in the table is around $109 million which, again is a respectable figure and is better than the average enjoyed by many big box office stars.
4/ 75% [ie 18] of the 24 movies have a critical rating of 60% or more, 60% being I understand a figure that the Cogerson site regards as representing a “good” movie. The Work Horse will no doubt correct me if I’ve got that wrong.
Accordingly it is fairly clear to me that Norman merits this new page. Amazing that he’s 92.
Hey Bob……thanks for breaking down Norman Jewison’s stats. He has been nominated and won some awards. He is one of the few directors not to win the Best Director Oscar while his picture won Best Picture. It happens more now….but during a 40 or 50 year run it only happened 3 or 4 times…sadly for Norman he is one of those 3 or 4. That movie was In The Heat of the Night.
The thing that surprised me about Jewison’s career was the about of my favorites in his movies. Bruce and Michael to start off with….but next tier includes people like Garner, McQueen and Caan. Statistically speaking he had an awesome career….so no correction from me on that part of your comment. Your math looks good to me.
I have been trying to see if anybody worked with my Top 3….Caine, Willis and Grant…so far…..lots of 2 fors….but no 3 fors. I got excited that Jewison was that person….especially with Willis and Caine making their Jewison movies at the end of his career. If only Cary would have made The Thrill of it All or Send Me No Flowers. So close…yet so far away. Good feedback on Norman Jewison.
Hey Nick…..that is some awesome trivia concerning The Cincinnati Kid. I had not heard of any of that…now you have me curious to see that ending…..I have it on DVD….I will try and check that ending out tonight. I agree with your thinking…..I like the unhappy ending better than the Hollywood ending. Thanks for sharing this awesome trivia.
Bruce;
Regarding The Cincinnati Kid, the version currently shown on TCM ruins the movie for me because of its added-on (relatively) happy ending. In the original theatrical version, after losing his long-anticipated match-up with “The Man” Lancey Howard (Edward G. Robinson), Eric Stoner aka “The Kid” (Steve McQueen) suffers further humiliation by losing a penny-pitching coin-toss to the shoe-shine boy. The movie then ends dramatically with a freeze-frame of The Kid who has lost everything, not only the big poker game but his girl and even a coin-toss. The television version adds a scene in which The Kid sees his girl Christian (Tuesday Weld) waiting for him. They then walk away together. Norman Jewison cut out this ridiculous ending (even though he filmed it at the studio’s request) and ended his version with the freeze-frame; this is the movie that I originally saw in a theater. I cannot watch the TCM version.