Sylvester Stallone Movies

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

Sylvester Stallone has been appearing in movies since 1970. Playing Rocky Balboa in 1976’s Rocky; turned Stallone into a superstar. Rocky was a monster hit (55 million tickets sold) and a critical hit. Rocky received 10 Academy Awards nominations……it won three Oscars®. Stallone received two of those nominations for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. To date there have been six Rocky movies, the most recent was Rocky Balboa in 2006.  Stallone also has had great success playing John Rambo in the First Blood movies. To date there have been four Rambo movies, the most recent was Rambo in 2008.

Over the course of his career he has had seventeen movies open number one at the box office.   Unfortunately for Sylvester Stallone, he is also associated with some really bad movies. To date he has been nominated for twenty-seven Razzie Awards, which includes eight Razzie wins. His most recent Razzie win was Worst Supporting Actor in SpyKids 3D: Game Over in 2004.

His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1970. This page will rank Sylvester Stallone movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and bit parts were not included in the rankings.

Kurt Russell and Stallone in 1989's Tango Cash
Kurt Russell and Stallone in 1989’s Tango Cash

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

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

Sylvester Stallone Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

Sylvester Stallone in 1976's Rocky
Sylvester Stallone in 1976’s Rocky

Steve Lensman’s Stallone You Tube Video

To check out Sylvester Stallone‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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78 thoughts on “Sylvester Stallone Movies”

  3. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the ring!

    “Sylvester Stallone confirmst that the Director’s Cut of Rocky IV is in the works.”

    Just when you thought that the rip-off of this franchise had reached saturation point!

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      1. HI STEVE: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a sensible cliche. For me Raging Bull entertained more because of DeNiro’s powerhouse performance in contrast to Sly’s somnolist Rocky.

        Also they didn’t tear the a*** out of Raging Bull by allowing it to continually rip-off itself in endless sequels. Regardless of how good -or not- the first couple of entries in a franchise are do you never get tired of watching the same old-same old being repeatedly served up to you featuring guys ageing before your eyes?

        And DeNiro’s “I coulda been a contender” speech from On the Waterfront added to the entertainment of Raging Bull. Imagine Stallone trying to make THAT speech!!!

        Waterfront’s Terry Malloy had of course been a boxer; and it occurs to me that somebody should make a flashback movie in which Terry fights Ivan Drago. I would still get tired of that though after 50 sequels!!!

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  4. “Stallone is somewhat limited as an actor.” – Joel Hirschhorn for once practicing restraint by way of under-statment in my perception. Indeed Joel on page 350 of his 1983 book goes on to praise Sly for for such things as his physical energy and entrepreneurial qualities.
    STALLONE FULL LIST OF RAZZIE AWARDS/NOMS FOR ACTING
    [He received another dozen for direction/screenwriting/worst screen duo etc]
    1985 Rhinestone
    1986 Rambo First Blood Part 2
    Rocky IV
    1987 Cobra
    1988 Over the Top
    1989 Rambo 3
    1990 Lock Up
    Tango and Cash
    WORST ACTOR OF DECADE
    1991 Rocky V
    1992 Oscar
    1993 Stop or My Mom Will Shoot
    1995 The Specialist
    Also shared worst screen couple award with Sharon Stone for Specialist
    1996 Assassins
    Judge Dredd
    1997 Daylight
    2000 WORST ACTOR OF CENTURY [For 99.5% of output]
    2001 Get Carter
    2002 Driven
    Also shared worst screen duo award with Burt Reynolds for Driven
    2004 Spy Kids 3
    2014 Bullet in the Head
    Escape Plan
    Grudge Match
    2020-Consistently bad until the end!-Rambo Last Blood

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  5. According to Wikipedia as an actor Sylvester Stallone holds the records for most total nominations consecutive nominations and wins as an actor and other kinds of participation in his movies- records that are unlikely to be broken certainly in the near future.

    I suppose you could give Hollywood credit for at least stopping short of actually awarding Stallone the Best Actor Oscar – or any Oscar. Nevertheless the fact that he was nominated at all demonstrates – in my view – the power of modern hype and commercialism.

    “Come back Victor Mature all is forgiven!” I always say because I feel that one would have to go back to the old amateurish serials of the 1930s and 1940s to find thespians who were as ill-fitted to the craft as Sly has been in our time “in 99.5% of all that he did”.

    For me Nighthawks is in the 0.5% of good work and I though that Sly was solid and convincing in that and it is probably my own most enjoyed Stallone film. It reminds me of Margaret Hinxman Britain’s lead 1950s film critic singling out Mature’s 1958 China Doll as the one movie in which Vic actually acted.

    However when one looks at the list in Part 3 and the Stinkers awards/noms listed on IMDB one can understand why Tennessee Williams apparently near had a heart attack when he learned that Sly was proposing to play Tennessee’s classic character Stanley in a big screen remake of Streetcar.

    Tennessee in effect put a stop to the project and reportedly Sly sulked openly in public. However it may not bother him too much today as he has a current quoted net worth of $400 million – one of the richest movie stars ever. Also in his private life he seems a very nice and indeed likeable and caring person; which is why I have always felt a bit saddened by his singular lack of artistic talent.

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