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Steve Buscemi (1957-) is an American actor, comedian, director, and former firefighter. Buscemi is at home in both big budget movies and low budget independent movies. Over the last 4 decades, he has become of the best supporting actors working. His IMDb page shows 159 acting credits since 1985. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 92 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, cameos, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings on the table.
Steve Buscemi Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Steve Buscemi
1. Steven Vincent Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957.
2. Steve Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City in 1980. He served in the FDNY’s Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan’s Little Italy for four years.
3. Steve Buscemi showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade Center tragedy in New York to volunteer. He worked twelve hour shifts for a week after the terrorist act, digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters. He did this anonymously and refuses to talk about that situation.
4. Steve Buscemi studied acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Institute in the mid 1970s.
5. Steve Buscemi has been married one time. He was married to filmmaker, choreographer and artist, Jo Andres, from 1987 to her death in early 2019. They had one son.
6. Steve Buscemi has been described as the “Peter Lorre of his time“.
7. Steve Buscemi has worked with the Coen brothers in 6 different movies.
8. Steve Buscemi bears such a strong resemblance to writer-director John Waters that as a joke, Waters sent out cards with a photo of Buscemi made up to look like Waters.
9. Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler have worked together in 14 movies.
10. Check out Steve Buscemi’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Steve Buscemi, is the # 12 most connected actor of the 2000’s, and the # 24 most connected of the 1990’s.
I like to occasionally do what I call Hall of fame pics on the Oracle lists. On the December 15, 2018 list The Player stills reigns supreme with 41 connections or people on the list appearing in the film. These films have 5 or more people from the list in them. Steve Buscemi appears in 58 films with 5 actors from the list in a film (or he appears with 4 other top 1000 actors in 58 films). He is numero uno. Samuel L. Jackson appears in 57, Frank Welker (who mostly does cartoon voices) and Sir Michael are in 51 and John Turturro is in 50. That’s it, 5 people for the moment, though Samuel with Avengers and the new Spider-man will probably pass Steve in this category by summer.
Some films historians opine that television audiences prefer to choose their own lead males and females, rather than take “hand me downs” from the big screen if that can be avoided, and certainly when long-time supporting actor Steve Buscemi [91 movies in the table above -wow!] became the star of TV’s Boardwalk Empire which ran for 5 seasons from 2010-2014 his success could not have been more phenomenal.
The pilot episode which reputedly cost $18 million [$21 million in today’s dollars] was directed by the great Martin Scorsese and over its run the series accumulated a staggering 64 awards and 182 nominations.Steve himself has collected throughout his prolific career to date 29 awards and 64 noms and has a reputed current net worth of $35 million. My own favourite Buscemi role on the big screen is that in Con Air
I saw 27, including 6 of top 7. 10s and favorites: pulp fiction, the big fish, Armageddon. nine and favourite: monster inc. hidden gems: the messenger(number 7 in reviews) an 8, 28 days (an 8). too weird to ever recommend reservoir dogs and barton fink. even pulp fiction I cannot recommend to most of my friends. cogerson , I totally agree on big lebowski , 1 and done. armed with my totally searchable UMR page I now understand why buscemi has no Oscar love. not a single effort even close. a delightful character actor.
Steve Buscemi is great at playing hoods and other characters from the strong side of the track and he also seems to have been one of the busiest supporting actors over the past 25 years.
I have seen 20 films on this list. I found Buscemi was outstanding in Fargo (although almost every-thing about that film was outstanding) and I also particularly liked him in Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski and Ghost World. Pulp Fiction is also one of my favorites, though to be honest, I either had not noticed or did not remember that Buscemi was even in that movie. Since I saw Pulp Fiction was on the list, I went to You Tube where I found his brief cameo appearance in the film…interestingly dressed up as a waiter dressed up as Buddy Holly.
While Buscemi appeared in some exceptional films in the 90s, afterwards, he seemed to have been not very picky in his choice of films, apparently going for quantity instead of quality. For instance, I counted close to a couple of dozen films with ratings of less than 50% on your list and about the same number of films with adjusted grosses of less than $1M.
Hey PhilHoF17. I think his role in Pulp Fiction is slightly larger than a cameo….but it is very brief. I do know the first time I saw Pulp Fiction, I smiled when I noticed Buscemi playing the waiter. I told my wife, “I wonder how much they are going to tip him?” Mr. Pink had high expectations for waiters and waitresses.
20 is so far the third highest total. I have seen 65. I was watching Nancy on Thursday night, when it finally registered that I need to give him an UMR page. I am not a huge fan of The Big Lebowski….but I do enjoy him as Donnie. There is a fan theory out there, that Donnie is not real, but in the imagination of John Goodman’s character. If you notice, Bridges and Buscemi have no interaction with each other….and the only time Bridges mentions him is almost a “sarcastic” shout out.
I think Buscemi, has continued to support lower budget movies….it is where he got his start, so he is always willing to help them out…..which results in (a) lots of movies (b) lots of low grossers and (c) lots of weak review movies. Not thinking he will ever catch Samuel L. Jackson in movies made….but I see triple digits coming soon for Buscemi.
One movie, I would recommend if you have not seen it is, Living in Oblivion. A satire of movie making…..it is the movie that I first noticed Peter Dinklage. A low budget movie that has a good cast and good story. Thanks for your feedback on Mr. Buscemi.
Hey Bruce,
Interesting, I was not aware of this theory about Steve Buscemi’s character in The Big Lebowski. And I guess it makes sense that his support of low-budget and indie films results in a higher number of low grossing movies. That’s to his credit, though this means he’s unlikely to make a Cogerson top 50 stars book any time soon 🙂 Hope you’re enjoying the Oscars tonight.
p.s. in my original comments, of course I meant characters “from the WRONG [not STRONG] side of the tracks”!
Hey PhilHoF17. At the 3 minute mark of this awesome interview with Goodman, Bridges and Buscemi…they discuss the “Donnie” theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNzquU4hjpk I like this interview more than the actual movie.
As much as I like Buscemi, he will have to wait until I write a “Best character actor movie”…lol.
Oscar show was a big alright. Not too many surprises…especially with the first 20 awards. A few at the end…Best Actress and Best Picture. Wrong/Strong…got it. Thanks for the feedback.