Want to know the best Olympics Movies? How about the worst Olympics Movies? Curious about Olympics Movies did at the box office or which Olympics Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins? Need to know which Olympics Movies movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This page represents part 9 of a 10 part series of pages that are trying to identify the Top 400 Sports Movies. This page will look at the top 19 Olympics movies. Movies are ranked by using a combination of box office results, reviews from audiences and critics and award recognition. Only three sports movies have ever won the Best Picture Oscar®. Chariots of Fire joins Rocky and Million Dollar Baby as the three movies to accomplish that honor.
2004’s Miracle.
Olympics Movies 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 Olympics Movies by the type of Olympics done in the movie
- Sort Olympics Movies by actual domestic box office grosses
- Sort Olympics Movies by adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort by how Olympics Movies 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 Olympics Movie received.
- Sort Olympics 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Olympics Movies Table
- Three Olympics Movie crossed the magical $100 million mark. That is a percentage of 18.75% of the movies listed. Chariots of Fire (1981) is the biggest box office hit when looking at adjusted domestic box office.
- An average Olympics Movie grosses $52.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 11 Olympics Movies are rated as good movies…or 68.75% of the movies listed. Highest rated Olympics movie is Foxcatcher (2014). Lowest rated Olympics movie is American Anthem (1986).
- Two Olympics Movie received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 12.50% of the listed movies.
- One Olympics Movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 6.25% of the movies listed.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Scoreis 39.86. 3 of Olympics Movies’s movies scored higher that average….or 18.75% of the listed movies. Chariots of Fire (1981) got the highest UMR Score….American Anthem (1986) got the lowest UMR Score.
My other Sports Movie Links
- Top 100 Biggest Box Office Grossing Sports Movies
- Top 100 Best Reviewed Sports Movies
- Top 400 Sports Movies
- Ranking Baseball Movies
- Ranking Basketball Movies
- Ranking Boxing Movies
- Ranking Football Movies
- Ranking Golf Movies
- Ranking Hockey Movies
- Ranking Olympics Movies
- Ranking Racing Movies
- Ranking Soccer Movies
- Ranking Other Sports Movies poker, surfing, rodeo, curling and others
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I thought there would be more movies in this category. miracle and cool running safe my favorites.
Hey Randy….you are correct…not too many Olympic movies…though I see I need to add Eddie The Eagle to the page. I love Miracle too. One of Kurt Russell’s best performances. Thanks for stopping by.
I enjoy Chariots of Fire. Walk Don’t Run was the final Cary Grant movie, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Hey Flora….thanks for stopping by. I am still miffed that Chariots beat Raiders of the Lost Ark for Best Picture….Walk Don’t Run is not Cary Grant’s best movie…but it is still pretty entertaining.
I have such fond memories of Personal Best, I can not believe that movie is almost 30 years old. Your final list should be cool, I can tell you have done lots of research.
Hey Shaun I think I can guess about your fond memories…M. Hemingway was pretty darn sexy back then….Thanks for the comment
Also, I don’t know if we’re counting the special olympics or not, but I guess you put in “the ringer” by Johnny Knoxville. although I never seen the movie, but heard it was terrible though. I guess you count that one in too as part of the olympics movies.
Hey Stevennix2001….I original was not including that movie….but after this comment…I have added to the Other Sports Movie page….which is part 10 of this series.
I love your lists! Great job
Thank you Casey