Want to know the best Warren Beatty movies? How about the worst Warren Beatty movies? Curious about Warren Beatty’s box office grosses or which Warren Beatty movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Warren Beatty movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Warren Beatty (1937-) is an Oscar® winning American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards® – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for 1981’s Reds (1981).
Drivel part of the page: The events that got us to do a Warren Beatty UMR movie page. (1) Yesterday we were at McDonalds for lunch and the Carly Simon “You’re So Vain” was playing in the background music. I told my wife that song was written about Warren Beatty. She said “Is that trivia nugget on your Beatty page?” I told that I had a request to do a Beatty page but had not done one yet. Then today I saw that Beatty was going to be 79 tomorrow (March 30th)…so I figured the gods were telling me it was time to do a Beatty page. So just in time for his birthday….here is our Warren Beatty UMR Movie Page.
Warren Beatty 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 Warren Beatty movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Warren Beatty movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Warren Beatty movies by yearly domestic box office rank or trivia
- Sort Warren Beatty 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 Warren Beatty movie received.
- Sort Warren Beatty 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Warren Beatty Table
- Six Warren Beatty movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 27.27% of his movies listed. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Warren Beatty movie grosses $83.90 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 15 of Warren Beatty’s movies are rated as good movies…or 68.18% of his movies. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is his highest rated movie while Town & Country (2001) is his lowest rated movie.
- Ten Warren Beatty movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 45.45% of his movies.
- Seven Warren Beatty movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 31.81% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 9 Warren Beatty movie scored higher that average….or 40.90% of his movies. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) got the the highest UMR Score while Town & Country (2001) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Warren Beatty
1. Henry Warren Beaty was born in Richmond, Virginia. His older sister is actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine.
2. Warren Beatty and his sister Shirley MacLaine attended Washington-Lee High School. This is the same school that Sandra Bullock would later attend.
3. Warren Beatty turned down several college football scholarships. Instead of playing college football he work as a stagehand at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. and attended Northwestern University to study liberal arts.
4. Warren Beatty is rumored to have been the subject of Carly Simon’s hit, ‘You’re So Vain‘.
5. Warren Beatty has directed 7 different actors in Oscar®-nominated performances: Jack Warden, Dyan Cannon, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton, Al Pacino and himself (in Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981). Maureen Stapleton won an Oscar® for her performance in Reds (1981).
6. Warren Beatty is the first and only person to have been nominated for acting, directing, writing and producing in the same film twice–first with 1978’s Heaven Can Wait, and again with 1981’s Reds.
7. Warren Beatty’s performance as Clyde Barrow in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde is ranked #32 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Heroes & Villains.
8. Warren Beatty has been married one time. He and Annette Bening have been married since 1992…they have four children.
9. Roles Warren Beatty turned down or was seriously considered for: Michael Douglas role in Wall Street, Tom Hanks role in Big, Gene Hackman role in Crimson Tide, Al Pacino role in The Godfather, Dustin Hoffman role in The Graduate, both roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, James Caan role in Misery, Robert Redford role in The Sting, Christopher Reeve role in Superman and David Carradine role in Kill Bill Volume 1.
10. Check out Warren Beatty‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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1 STEVE Carrie Fisher appear in the 1975 Shampoo with Warren Beatty and before her death she gave an account of how her mother had visited the set during shooting of that film and had a dialogue with Warren in which she argued with him to tone down some of the language that the then 15 year old Carrie was scheduled to use in the movie. Debbie suggested to Warren use of certain milder alternative versions of the offending dialogue but it seems that it was Beatty’s preferred stronger stuff that prevailed because in the clip that Carrie showed us from the movie she was using to Warren words that the Princess certainly would never have dreamed of uttering to Luke or Hans. That’s Warren for you!
2 I welcome this video and was very impressed with the POSTERS for lshtar, Promise Her Anything, Lilith, Reds, Rules Don’t Apply and especially The Only Game in Town. Great STILLS were Shampoo, Bugsy, Dick Tracy [presumably with Warren’s love-life of the time Madonna?] The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone [presumable a posed one and not in the movie itself] Beatty with pal Jack in The Fortune and I note that your poster for that one gives Jack/Warren the compromise billing that has caused some of the McQueen/Newman fuss on this site recently. The best still though for me was Warren with Faye in Bonnie and Clyde.
3 Neither Beatty nor Dunaway ever really topped the latter movie in my opinion and it’s a pity it was so early in their careers. Indeed many movie historians have regretted the fact that Warren’s career overall was not more solid. Bruce’s stats table shows Warren with a total career gross of less than $2 billion in adjusted domestics, an output of just 23 flicks and only six $1 million plus movies [one of which was really more of a Natalie Wood film] which are not vertiginous totals for a famous star with a career of around 60 years. Such considerations do not impinge on the overall excellence of your profile though which I feel earns 95% rating. You and the Work Horse agree on 4 of the top 5 with Bruce including in his top 5 Heaven Can Wait instead of The Parallax View, your No 5. I prefer your choice but I’m really hair splitting because Bruce has that movie as his No 6. Once again his page and your video well complement each other
Hey Bob
1. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxqEePOxxGg Steve’s latest video.
2. Interesting story about Reynolds, Fisher and Beatty on the set of Shampoo.
3. Good breakdown on Steve’s video and Warren’s career.
4. Good to know…that Steve and I are pretty much seeing the ratings the same way.
Good feedback.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, comment, info, trivia and comparison, always appreciated. Happy you enjoyed the visual presentation.
Good to know Bruce and I have similar chart rankings this time, it’s only 23 films in total so it was harder for us to disagree with the good, the bad and the indifferent.
I watched Shampoo some time last year and was surprised to see young Princess Leia being so naughty. I wonder what Debbie thought when she sat with her daughter at the premiere. 🙂
Which was worse Town & Country or Ishtar? A flip of the coin and Ishtar was last on my chart, Town & Country on Bruce’s. I haven’t seen either so I can’t gauge their level of awfulness. Neither can be as bad as John Travolta’s majestic Battlefield Earth surely? That film is in it’s own category, the Holy Grail of bad movies. And I own a copy on DVD, he shamelessly admitted.
Three films scored 10 out of 10 from one or more of my sources and they were – Reds, Parallax View and Bonnie & Clyde. Three scored 9 – Bulworth, Dollars and McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Bulworth and Dollars received average scores elsewhere which lowered their positions on the board.
Hey Steve…..I think Town & Country is the worse of the two. There are parts of Ishtar that I like…Charles Grodin for one…..Hoffman has a few funny moments….and Beatty is playing against character…..at least you can see where some of the money spent on the movie showed up on the screen. As for Town & Country….it is basically a romantic comedy…how did it cost so much to make? Besides the stars salaries…the rest of the production could have been from a low budget film.
Yep are top the ratings and the bottom of the ratings are pretty darn close indeed. Glad you finally got one right…..lol.
HI BRUCE
1 I was interested in your views as you have seen both T & C and Ishtar.
2 Beatty’s 1994 Love Affair co-starring his wife Annette Bening was a remake of the Boyer/Dunne outing of 1939 and the Grant/Kerr version of 1957. I haven’s seen the 1939 film but I’ve watched the other two and thought Beatty’s movie lacked the charm of the Grant hit. Your audience/critic panel seem to lean in my direction because the 1957 film gets 75% whilst Warren and Annette get just 43%.
Hey Bob. I might be one of the few people to see both of those movies…here to help….lol. I like you have not seen Love Affair with Dunne and Boyer…but have seen the Grant version many many times. When comparing Beatty to Grant….it is not even close. Grant’s anger until he realized the situation at the end of his version is some of Grant’s best acting. Yep An Affair To Remember kicked Love Affair’s rear end.
Since I just updated our database’s rankings…I have their current rankings (it takes a long time for the updating rankings to run….so I rarely do it)….but right this moment…An Affair To Remember is ranked 1,040th place…while Love Affair is at 10,126 place….over 10,000 movies behind…the original Love Affair does much better at 1,593rd place….sit aways behind the Grant version.
Good stuff…..OMG…I am caught up on comments….a round of applause for Cogerson.
HI STEVE:
1 Yes those who know Carrie from only Star Wars and thought of her screen persona as a “Miss Goody Two Shoes” had better have a look at her wider career. Indeed as you know Debbie in her heyday during the sanitised Hollywood movies of old [including the worst musical ever made Singin in the Rain – just kidding!] personified the apple-pie Girl “Next Door and coming from her even the “milder” alternatives which according to Carrie Debs was proposing surprised me.
2 I haven’t seen T & C but Ishtar was dire and your poster for it was one of my top choices because of the innovative and novel method it displayed for giving compromise billing to Beatty and Hoffman both of whom were top stars at the time. You will see that Warren’s name comes first on the left then the heroine comes above Warren but over to the right, followed then by Dustin above her and Warren but over to the far right. Wouldn’t have done for Tracy but it obviously satisfied Hoffman/Beatty and I loved it for its novelty and the camel/sand scene in the poster was gorgeous I thought.It would be too time and space-consuming to fully explain always why I like your posters and stills that I select for praise but I thought it would do no harm on this occasion when you had highlighted the film yourself.
3 Travolta claimed that Battlefield Earth was ahead of its time with critics [which was what Chaplin said about HIS flop A Countess from Hong Kong] and John also adopted what to the best of my knowledge was a “That black crow is white” stance by saying that the movie was a big box office hit despite reports that it lost a fortune
Hey Bob….nice trivia and comment on Beatty, Battlefield Earth Ishtar. It reminds me of the producer of The Lone Ranger (Johnny Depp movie)….he said after it tanked…that in years it would be considered an all-time classic….well three years later and that thought is still sitting at the station….lol.
Thanks as always for the link Bruce! Now where’s that widget… 🙂
I waited until the first Beatty comment came in….and Bob came through….and now the link is on the website. I feel good that I found your video only 2 minutes after it was posted….it is almost like I am stalking your video channel…lol.
Hi
Even if Carly Simon’s song wasn’t about Beatty, he’s never done anything to dispel the myth. There’s no doubt that he was a very good looking guy in his youth, which he used to great advantage in movies like Splendor in the Grass and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. I must admit I’m very surprised he only made 22 movies considering that he’s such hands on with his movies, writing, acting and directing. What’s he been doing the last 10 years, child minding?
I think one film he will always be associated with is Bonnie and Clyde. I don’t think he’s ever surpassed that work. I’ll never forget the ending when him and Faye are shot. It’s truly a fantastic film.
I’ve seen Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait and they were so-so. In the early 80’s I went to the cinema to see Reds, which I thought was really enjoyable but it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. I thought it was quite a bold move making a bi-op of a communist writer, especially in the Reagen era.
I gave Ishtar a miss because the reviews were so bad. But I loved Bugsy, especially his wife Annette Bening. It’s a great film but probably overshadowed that year by Silence of the Lambs and Thelma and Louise.
I can’t understand why he ever decided to remake Love Affair. While it was beautifully shot, it was pretty weak. Apparently he wooed Hepburn for weeks, sending her flowers every day. She finally relented saying, he’s turning my house into a funeral parlor.
It’s amazing that so few young people even know about him now, which just goes to show how tastes change so quickly.
Hey Chris….I think the song is indeed about Beatty….Simon has never said if it was true….but one of her clues….points right at him. I find it hard to believe that he is almost 80….he probably does too…lol. Nothing in the last 15 years…but he does have a completed untitled movie listed on IMDb.
For some reason I have not liked Bonnie and Clyde either time I have watched it…it is well done movie….just for some reason it did not register with me. I really like Heaven Can Wait…I find Shampoo very very dated. I have and will only see Reds once….way too long….and not at all interesting to me….but I am glad you found it interesting.
I thought Ishtar was better than expected….Hoffman and Beatty seem to be having fun…..but it is certainly not a good movie. I like that he got Hepburn for Love Affair….she was the best part of that movie….though her part was pretty short.
Just to show you how far off the radar he is today….BoxOfficeMojo does not even have a page for him…how the mighty have fallen. As always….thanks for stopping by and sharing your Beatty thoughts.