Paul Giamatti Movies

Want to know the best Paul Giamatti movies?  How about the worst Paul Giamatti movies?  Curious about Paul Giamatti box office grosses or which Paul Giamatti movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Paul Giamatti 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.

Paul Giamatti (1967-) is an Oscar® nominated American actor who has become one of the best character actors working today.  His IMDb page shows over 110 acting credits since 1990. This page ranks Paul Giamatti movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, documentaries and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings. 

Drivel Part:  So this request comes from BryRog57…..better known in my family as Cogerson son #1.  BryRog57 has made some awesome suggested pages in the past….his requested Pixar vs DreamWorks and Marvel vs DC movie pages have turned out to be our two most popular pages….with over 600,000 combined views.  Granted his requested Edward Norton (435th in views) and Woody Harrelson (349th in views) pages were duds.  So let’s see how Paul Giamatti does at UMR.com.

Paul Giamatti in 2004’s Sideways….a role that should have gotten him an Oscar nomination

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

Paul Giamatti 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 Paul Giamatti movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Paul Giamatti movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Paul Giamatti movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Paul Giamatti 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 Paul Giamatti movie received.
  • Sort Paul Giamatti 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.

Paul Giamatti Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Possibly Interesting Facts About Paul Giamatti

1. Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1967.

2. Paul Giamatti is the youngest son of A. Bartlett Giamatti.  A. Bartlett Giamatti was the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.  Giamatti was the commissioner that suspended Pete Rose for life for betting on baseball.

3. Paul Giamatti earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.

4. Paul Giamatti’s big break was playing Kenny “Pig Vomit” Rushton in 1997’s Private Parts…which was the life story of Howard Stern.

5.  Paul Giamatti was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® in 2005’s Cinderella Man.

6.  Paul Giamatti has been nominated for 3 Golden Globes® for his feature film roles:  2004’s Sideways, 2005’s Cinderella Man and 2011’s Barney’s Version….he won the Golden Globe® for Barney’s Version.

7. Paul Giamatti helped Tom Hanks save both Private Ryan and Mr. Banks.…as both actors appeared in 1998’s Saving Private Ryan and 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks.

8. Paul Giamatti has been married 1 time and has 1 child.

9.  Paul Giamatti has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, 2004’s Sideways and 2013’s 12 Years a Slave.

10. Check out Paul Giamatti ‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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14 thoughts on “Paul Giamatti Movies”

  1. Wow! Thanks for such a fast request fill. Firstly I have always enjoyed Paul Giamatti and I never realized just how many roles he had an so many memorable movies. It is also nice to see that his leading role in Sideways is just outside the Top 5 competing with those big boys. On to the facts…
    Seen: 17/61 or 28%
    Favorite Top 10: Back and forth between Ryan/Truman…settled on Cinderella Man.
    UMR Snub (Too High/Too Low): Amazing Spider Man 2, this movie was an atrocity.
    Gulity Pleasure: Close between Fred Claus and Big Fat Liar, both are horrendous, my childhood says take Frankie Muniz, my Christmas love says Fred Claus and……we will take Fred Claus, without Giamatti as Santa this movie would have been ten times worse.

    Thanks for the page, keep it up!

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    1. Hey BryRog57….some requests resonant with me more than others…in this case Mr. Giamatti did that for sure. 17…is right there with Steve…that is a good accomplishment…..but still a ways away from me. He is outstanding in Cinderella Man…..so far it is his only Oscar nomination.

      As for Spiderman 2….I agree it is a pretty dreadful movie…but it still grossed over $200 million in the USA alone…and a 66% rating is actually pretty close to a Fresh rating from RottenTomatoes. Fred Claus? Really? You were 19 when that movie came out….I thought I had trained you better than that….lol.

      Glad you like your requested page.

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  2. I didn’t even know this page was up until this morning. Nearly 300 views already!

    A good, reliable character actor and busy too, 61 films listed and I’ve seen 20 of them Favorites include – Planet of the Apes (hilarious in this one, and the make-up was great too but the film was no where as good as the classic original, I did like Tim Roth as the evil chimp though), The Negotiator, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Donnie Brasco, Shoot em Up and Saving Private Ryan.

    Not a huge fan of The Truman Show and once was enough for 12 Years a Slave.

    I haven’t seen Sideways or Straight Outta Compton.

    Nice work as always Bruce. Voted Up!

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    1. Hey Steve
      1. Thanks for the comment and for the visit.
      2. This page went about 18 hours before it got it’s first comment….thank you Chris….not thinking…one of these pages has ever done….if during the early days of HubPages….granted back then I would send out an e-mail to my friends and family…pretty much begging for a comment….lol.
      3. He is becoming the Michael Caine of movies….making 4 or 5 movies a year
      4. So our tally is 47 for me and 20 for you
      5. I thought he was excellent in Planet of the Apes….as for your other favorites…I really like Shoot ‘Em Up and Saving Private Ryan.
      6. Sideways is very good….but I can see when people complain that it is slow moving…but hey….it is a movie about touring wine vineyards. Meanwhile…Straight Outta Compton is an excellent movie…with an excellent role for Giamatti….he should have gotten an Oscar nomination last year for that one.
      Good stuff 🙂

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  3. I’ve seen the grave of Paul’s parents in New Haven (I mean his father was president of Yale). In that cemetery you can find side by side the graves of Eli Whitney (cotton gin, assembly line), Noah Webster (father of the dictionary) and Harriet Tubman’s father buried side by side.

    I count Paul appearing with 40 Oscar winners down the years, not counting the possibilities of today’s nominations.

    12 Years a Slave (2013) – Lupita Nyong’o
    Before and After (1996) – Meryl Streep
    Big Momma’s House (2000) – Octavia Spencer
    Cinderella Man (2005) – Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger
    Confidence (2003) – Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz
    Cosmopolis (2012) – Juliette Binoche
    Cradle Will Rock (1999) – Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Vanessa Redgrave
    Deconstructing Harry (1997) – Robin Williams
    Donnie Brasco (1997) – Al Pacino
    Duets (2000) – Gwyneth Paltrow
    Duplicity (2009) – Julia Roberts
    Ernest & Celestine (2014) – Forest Whitaker
    Fred Claus (2007) – Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz
    Mighty Aphrodite (1995) – F. Murray Abraham, Mira Sorvino, Olympia Dukakis
    My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) – Julia Roberts
    Parkland (2013) – Marcia Gay Harden
    Planet of the Apes (2001) – Charlton Heston
    Robots (2005) – Dianne Wiest, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Robin Williams
    Rock of Ages (2012) – Catherine Zeta-Jones
    Saving Mr. Banks (2013) – Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson
    Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Tom Hanks
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) – Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Sally Field
    The Ant Bully (2006) – Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage
    The Ides of March (2011) – George Clooney, Marisa Tomei, Philip Seymour Hoffman
    The Last Station (2009) – Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren
    The Little Prince (2016) – Benicio Del Toro, Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard
    The Negotiator (1998) – Kevin Spacey

    Paul is currently #53 on the current Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. Strangely he has only appeared with 4 actors in the top 10.

    Paul worked with Michael Madsen in Donnie Brasco (1997)
    Paul worked with Harvey Keitel in The Congress (2014)
    Paul appeared with Danny Trejo in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
    Paul appeared with Samuel L. Jackson in The Negotiator (1998)

    Paul has never appeared in a film with Eric Roberts, Robert De Niro, Willem Dafoe, Malcolm McDowell, Donald Sutherland or Michael Caine

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    1. Hey Dan….thanks for visiting our latest page.
      1. That sounds like an interesting cemetery …..we have one like that in Richmond Va.
      2. Wow…he is already at 40 Oscar winners…I think when he retires he will end up with a pretty seroius number…like a Caine number.
      3. 53rd on the Bacon Oracle is pretty high
      4. That is strange that he has not worked with more than half of the Top 10.
      As always you have provided some fun information on Giamatti.

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      1. I remember comparing from an old list let’s say the top 300 to everyone else on the 1000 and nobody out of the top 300 ever acted with all 10 of the current list, maybe someone had 9 but they usually averaged 4 to 6 (I could say 5). Some would have as low as 2, don’t know why.

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        1. As an example take the original list in 2000. #53 back then was Charles Bronson who since has fallen off. The following were the top 10 people at that time. Off the top Orson Welles has since fallen off also.

          1. Christopher Lee
          2. Rod Steiger
          3. Donald Pleasence
          4. Charlton Heston
          5. Donald Sutherland
          6. Anthony Quinn
          7. Robert Mitchum
          8. Shelley Winters
          9. Orson Welles
          10. Dennis Hopper

          Rod Steiger is in Love and Bullets (1979) with Charles.
          Donald Pleasence was in Telefon (1977) with Charles
          Donald Sutherland was in The Dirty Dozen (1967) with Charles.
          Anthony Quinn was in Guns of San Sebastian (1968) with Charles
          Robert Mitchum was in Villa Rides (1968) with Charles.
          Shelley Winters was in The Stone Killer (1973) with Charles.
          Orson Welles was in a short Real Heroes (1981) with Charles
          Dennis Hopper was in The Indian Runner (1991) with Charles

          Well he did better than Paul, 8 out of 10 but do you think anybody has ever heard of the short Orson Welles connects through. Charles never worked with #1 Christopher Lee & #4 Charleton Heston. I believe in the beginning when they did six degrees the average person just tried to connect through their head. I could not make any of these connections in my head even with big stars. It took a computer program to be developed and the goal was to find the furthest people who were apart (most steps), someone so obscure it would be impossible. I think the record for actually most steps connecting is 17 according to their site.. There are people that never connect to others through no matter how many steps. Try connecting someone you know is in 1 or 2 movies (athlete, music star, politician) to some big star. The further back in time or in a foreign film to a local celebrity or someone that never starred in an English speaking picture is good too and you may get a lot of steps, but that’s only on a computer program.

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          1. Hey Dan….good stuff about Charlie Bronson and the Top 10. Him not working with Christopher Lee is not too surprising…but not working with Heston is surprising. Maybe Bronson was extra in The Ten Commandments…lol.

            I imagine a movie buff is the one that brought the big guns of a computer to play the Kevin Bacon game. 17 seems like a huge number….every time I play the game of trying to find one with lots of steps….it never works…as it is always a 2 or 3 step link. 🙂

        2. Hey Dan…. interesting. I would imagine the reason many are in the 4 to 6 range is due to the difference in the actor….Danny Trejo and Michael Caine are not working (usually) with the same people…as one is generating 20 or so movies yearly…with a combined budget that does not top the other’s budget of the one or two movies they are making yearly. I think DeNiro and Caine are making films with a totally different group of people than Trejo and Roberts are….just my thinking.

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  4. Hi

    Why this guy hasn’t won an Oscar, I just don’t know. He’s easily one of the best character actors around. Sideways is one of the best road movies I’ve seen, The Illusionist, though it didn’t do great at the box office, is really worth seeing. He plays the head of the secret Police, working for the Crown Prince of Austria.

    But for me the high point of his career hasn’t been in cinema, but in television. The mini series John Adams. For anyone who loves history, it is totally fascinating. Going into all the details of the Founding Fathers, I can’t praise it enough and he himself is fantastic in it.

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    1. Hey Chris….I agree 100%….the man should already have an Oscar….heck he only has one nomination (Cinderella Man)…which he got after the Oscar voters realized how badly they messed up when they did not even nominate him for Sideways. The Illusionist is a great video…and Giamatti has the best role in the movie.

      Not to keep agreeing with you but John Adams is indeed a great mini-series….as it is educational and entertaining. Thanks for being the first person to comment on the page….:)

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  5. This has to be a record…..the views are there….yet no comments? Nobody has anything to say about Paul Giamatti? Even BryRog57, the person that requested the page? Well….I think he is a great character actor….the Walter Brennan of this era. I have seen 47 of the 61 movies listed….that is 77.04% of his listed movies.

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