Want to know the best Sports Movies? How about the worst Sports Movies? Curious about Sports Movies did at the box office or which Sports Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins? Need to know which Sports Movies movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
A few years ago, I got a request from HubPages’s Stevennix2001 to figure out the Top 100 Sports Movies according to our Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score formula. Well I had to research over 1,200 sports movies….but I was able to come up with a Top 100. Along the way I actually wrote 14 sports movie pages. Many of those pages look at each individual sport….for example Ranking Baseball Movies. The final page I did was this one….which lists over 400 movies that received a Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. To be eligible a movie had to play in movie theaters in North America.
Sports 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 Movies by the type of sport
- Sort Movies by the star of the movie
- Sort Movies by adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort by how 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 Sports Movies received.
- Sort Sports 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.
- This table is freaking huge. You need to use the sort and search buttons to find information. For example if you want to see Kevin Costner sports movies…type his name in the search box and his 7 sports movies will pop up. You can do the same thing with sports….if you want to see cricket movies….type in cricket in the search box and the two cricket movies will pop up. Sylvester Stallone leads the way with 11 movies in the table.
@Cogerson… Own nine of the Top Ten — don’t have “The Blind Side”. “Chariots of Fire” still my No.1; “Rocky” my No.2 !
Hey Barbsbitsnpieces ….9 out of 10 is pretty good….I am sure Blind Side will eventually make into your collection as well.
Great Sports Movie Page!! Never would have guessed Rocky at number one. From Cleveland and a huge Indians fan I watch Major League every year at least once. Not to mention Major League 2.. I am a baseball freak so the baseball movies are the best …well done!
FSlovenec….thanks for the kind words….there are many great baseball movies in this top 10
Great page! For my money, The Pride of the Yankees is the greatest movie of all time.
Hey andyglean…then I am glad that Pride of the Yankees end up being so highly ranked…thanks for the visit
So many great movies! Sports really do make an excellent movie topic.
Hey ElleBee…..I agree with you 100%….sports movies do make excellent movie topics…..this hub has turned into one of my Top 5 hubs ever…..with close to 6,0000 views and growing every day…..I am thinking Clint Eastwood’s Trouble With The Curve could require me to update the hub again when it gets released in a few weeks.
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Bend It Like Beckham is my favourite of all of them. Your movie page reminded me all the story. Thanks for sharing your sports knowledge.
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Hey ITCoach….glad that your favorite, Bend it Like Beckham made the Top 100…..not bad considering not many people in North America are really aware of that soccer movie. Thanks for the visit, the comment and the share….they are all greatly appreciated.