Want to know the best Samuel L. Jackson movies? How about the worst Samuel L. Jackson movies? Curious about Samuel L. Jackson’s box office grosses or which Samuel L. Jackson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Samuel L. Jackson 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.
Samuel L. Jackson (1948-) is an Oscar® nominated American actor. Goodness gracious has he been busy since 1988…as he has appeared in 91 movies that were released in theaters. When we got a request to do a movie page on Jackson, we had know idea that it would turn out to the page that ended up with the most movies for one performer. Jackson pushed aside Michael Caine and Robert DeNiro to be able to make that claim.
His IMDb page shows over 190 credits since 1972. This page ranks Samuel L. Jackson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, cameos, shorts, video games and movies not released in North America and many of his movies that barely made a dent at the box office were not included in the rankings.
Samuel L. Jackson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Samuel L. Jackson 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 Samuel L. Jackson movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Samuel L. Jackson movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Samuel L. Jackson movie won.
- Sort Samuel L. Jackson 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.
- Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Samuel L. Jacksonl Table
- Twenty-five Samuel L. Jackson movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 26.04% of his movies listed. Jurassic Park (1993) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Samuel L. Jackson movie grosses $94.60 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 54 Samuel L. Jackson movies are rated as good movies…or 56.25% of his movies. Pulp Fiction (1994) is his highest rated movie while Twisted (2004) is his lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Samuel L. Jackson movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 18.75% of his movies.
- Seven Samuel L. Jackson movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 7.29% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 43 Samuel L. Jackson movies scored higher that average….or 44.79 of his movies. Pulp Fiction (1994) got the the highest UMR Score while The Return of Superfly (1990) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Samuel L. Jackson
1. Samuel L. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2. Samuel L. Jackson has been nominated for 1 Oscar®….he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1994.
3. Samuel L. Jackson has been nominated for 4 Golden Globes….he was nominated for 1994’s Pulp Fiction, 1996’s A Time To Kill and 1997’s Jackie Brown. His 4th nomination was for a television movie: 1994’s Against the Wall.
4. Samuel L. Jackson has been married to LaTanya Richardson since 1980…..they have one child.
5. Sameul L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino have worked together on 6 movies.
6. Sameul L. Jackson and Spike Lee have worked together on 6 movies.
7. Samuel L. Jackson has the rare distinction of having played characters that have been eaten by both a shark and a dinosaur.
8. Samuel L. Jackson rates very high on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time tables.
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King of the Box Office Sam Jackson gets his page updated. [cue Bob groaning] 🙂
Someone should work out how many films Jackson was the lead male actor in and tot up the grosses, then we’ll find out if he’s box office king.
His box office counterpart Myrna Loy was the lead actress in most of her big hits, while Jackson was happy to support in most of his.
I’ve seen 58 of the 96 films listed here, most recently Skull: Kong Island.
Good work Bruce. Vote Up.
Bob we posted on Sam Jackson’s page almost at the same time, I’m flabbergasted. 🙂
STEVE
There is almost a case for a separate league of actors/actresses who were predominately in supporting roles but strong ones and who were in movies that racked up large grosses. The kind of people I have in mind are Samuel L, Thelma Ritter, Walter Brennan and one of your video top sellers Tony Quinn. That raises an interesting question. Rutger Hauer never made top stardom in the cinema but for a number of years I think he was King of the Straight to Video. If Quinn were about today would his career mirror Rutger’s career?
HI Bruce:
1 Move over Duke the Greatest Male Box Office Star of All Time has arrived in town. That’s what they call Sam at times before adjusting for inflation and when you do adjust he probably lies about 4th in your ranking list if you take his stats at face value.
2 However I think that we are both agreed this time that he was in so many supporting roles that although he deserves a lot of credit for his contribution it would be a stretch to regard him as a great box office star in his own right in the league of say Hanks or Harrison Ford? Also once you get outside Sam’s top 40 the turkeys start appearing thick and fast so that by the time you get to the bottom of the list they wouldn’t have the strength to squawk even if it was Christmas and indeed they look as if they might have been pinched from Nicolas Cage’s page.
3 Nevertheless thanks to your comprehensive work in setting out all of them on the one page I can’t help being impressed by the enormous effort Jackson must have expended in building up such a massive personal filmography and the Oscar and Golden Globe noms that you mention also give him the deserving reputation of being a fine actor. I have therefore found this updated profile of another great African American film star.very interesting and informative. Do you know if he has ever been listed in Quigley?
I have seen 75 of the films listed, as well as an additional 7 not listed. Of the ones I haven’t seen, I have 10 on tape/disc waiting to be watched.
Damn….foiled again….I am at 67 movies watched. Sounds like you have a serious collection of movies to watch. I get most of my movies from the libraries around me….but my queue is only about 9 movies total. Currently watching a horrible low budget crappy movie called Private Number ….because Judd Nelson was on the cover….seems another lifetime ago that Nelson was actually a popular movie actor.
Yep Sam Jackson has made a lot of movies, a very busy actor. Always watchable never boring.
I had a feeling Pulp Fiction would top the UMR chart, probably his most famous film and I think the only film for which he was Oscar nominated. Jurassic Park was the biggest film he has appeared in, bigger than The Avengers? Oh in adjusted dollars, okay.
Let’s count them, I’ve seen… 50 of the 92 films you’ve listed. I’ve watched Jackson’s top 34 highest grossing worldwide movies, and only 16 from the remaining 58 films.
I liked him as Nick Fury in the Marvel superhero movies. And he was really good in Tarantino’s movies, most recently in The Hateful Eight, which I really enjoyed.
Another excellent addition to you movie site Bruce. Voted Up.
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out this massively long movie page….92 movies! It actually takes a little time to do a tally count…lol. I am at 62 SLJ movies watched. When looking at worldwide gross I get stuck at #14….XXX. While you get stuck at Coach Carter.
Yep Jurassic World is ahead of Avengers when looking at adjusted gross…..but both were massive hits….then again….you can say that about many many SLJ. He has aged very gracefully….he does not look like a man pushing 70….I hope I can make that claim when I get to be his age.
I look forward to The Hateful Eight…I wonder if it is going to get some GoldenGlobe love tonight….and then some Oscar love next week.
Thanks for the visit and the comment….both are greatly appreciated.
Goodness gracious is correct. OMG I had no idea he had been in some many movies.
Hey Pearlson….I am right there with you. His career output is pretty amazing. Thanks for stopping by.