Want to know the best Woody Allen movies? How about the worst Woody Allen movies? Curious about Woody Allen’s box office grosses or which Woody Allen movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Woody Allen 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.
“I am not scared of death….I just do not want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen has had lots of funny one liners over the years but that is my favorite one. His IMDb page shows almost 200 writing, directing and acting credits since 1950. This page will rank Woody Allen 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.
Woody Allen 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 Woody Allen movies by co-stars of his movies
- Sort Woody Allen movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Woody Allen movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Woody Allen 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 Woody Allen movie received.
- Sort Woody Allen 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 Woody Allen Table
- Seven Woody Allen movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 12.96% of his movies listed. Casino Royale (1966) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Woody Allen movie grosses $40.16 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 43 Woody Allen movies are rated as good movies…or 79.62% of his movies. Annie Hall (1977) is his highest rated movie while Casino Royale (1966) is his lowest rated movie.
- Twenty-six Woody Allen movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 48.14% of his movies.
- Eight Woody Allen movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 14.81% of his movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 27 Woody Allen movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% of his movies. Annie Hall (1977) got the the highest UMR while Scenes From a Mall (1991) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Woody Allen
1. Allen Stuart Konigsberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935.
2. So how did Allen Stuart Konigsberg become Woody Allen? As a teenager he started to call himself Woody Allen as a homage to the clarinetist Woody Herman. At 17 he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen. So Woody is for a clarinetist….and Allen was his first name that became his last name. So using that logic….my created name would be Bruce Bruce because my first name is Bruce and as a kid Bruce Springsteen was my favorite musical artist.
3. Woody Allen’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. His first early break was when he was hired to be a writer on the Sid Caesar television show “Your Show of Shows“. He then started attracting a following as stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village. After writing the Broadway stage hit, Don’t Drink The Water…he started appearing in supporting roles in movies like What’s New Pussycat and Casino Royale. In 1969 he wrote, starred and directed Take The Money And Run. Since then he has pretty much directed a movie every year.
4. Woody Allen is a passionate fan of jazz music. Jazz music is featured in many of his movies’ soundtracks. Allen has been performing with his clarinet since the late 1960s.
5. Woody Allen does not seem too concerned about Oscars®. That does not seem to bother the Academy Award voters as he has been nominated an incredible 24 times in different Oscar® categories. Allen rarely appears at the Oscar® show. The only year he attended was in 2002 following 9/11 when he thanked Hollywood for its support of his hometown.
6. Woody Allen has been nominated 16 times for a Best Screenplay Oscar®, 7 times for a Best Director Oscar® and 1 time for a Best Actor Oscar®. He has won 4 Oscars®…1 for Best Director, Annie Hall (1977) and 3 for Best Screenplay…..Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He was won 3 Golden Globes®.
7 Fourteen actors have received Oscar® nominations for their roles in Woody Allen movies. 7 of those performances won the Academy Award®. Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1977), Dianne Wiest and Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Dianne Wiest in Bullets over Broadway (1994), Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (2013).
8. Roles Woody Allen turned down or was seriously considered for: Oh God! (John Denver role), Eyes Wide Shut (Sidney Pollack role) and Stuck On You (Will Smith and Allen were originally supposed to play the twins that ended being played by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear).
9. Woody Allen was voted the 19th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. He was ranked 43rd in Empire magazine’s Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. He has the most Screenplay Oscar® nominations in the history of the Oscars®. That is not a bad trifecta!
10. Check out Woody Allen‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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1 Some journalists think that Woody Allen is the most quoted celebrity of modern times. Woody’s most consistently high box office period has probably been from 1965-1979 especially with Annie Hall and Manhattan and when he had 6 of his 7 $100 million smashes.
2 Since the 1970s he has had a long run of low to modest grossers with [ignoring voice only Antz] probably the only standout commercial hits being Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris which though not a high grosser in the US had an adjusted worldwide take of about $160 million dollars against a budget of just $17 million. Some of his low grossers may have made profits too as his movies tend not to have budgets that go over the top
3 However his movies have continued to be generally well received by critics. though since 2006 he has not personally been in that many of the them. Over the last few years I have seen and enjoyed Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine and Café Society all of which he just wrote and directed although he narrated the last of those as well.
HELLO BRUCE
1 I went with Wife of Bob to see Cafe Society the latest offering from writer/director/producer/actor Woody Allen who must surely be the Clooney of comedy, though Woody does not appear but provides just the narration throughout. It gets mixed reviews though IMDB gives it a respectable 6.9 and my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
2 The first part of the film is set in the Hollywood of the thirties, there is considerable name dropping, and of course it wouldn’t be an Allen flick if the last part of it did not return to New York. Despite the usual humorous Allen treatment of his subject matter there are moments of extreme violence in the movie.
3 This after-movie conversation between Wife of Bob and me might interest you:
WOB Did you notice how many great star names were mentioned in almost the first 10 minutes of that film? Fred and Ginger, Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Spencer Tracy, William Powell, Judy Garland and Errol Flynn.
BOB: Yes and among that lot at least McCrea is unique.
WOB Why?
BOB He’s the only one without a Cogerson page.
WOB And your Dad loved Joel McCrea but what’s Cogerson got against him?
BOB Dunno.
4 Another great coincidence but “Be sure your sins will find ye out!”
Best wishes BOB
Hey Bob
1. Glad you enjoyed Cafe Society..at one point I was excited about this one….and then Woody fired Bruce Willis…and it fell off my radar…Willis was supposed to play the Steve Carell part.
2. Hollywood movie stars of the 1930s? I like that….maybe I will get the references more than I did when I saw Midnight in Paris…..I felt like I had to have my computer on as Owen Wilson kept running into all of those famous characters of the past…and ones I did not know at all.
3. Thanks for sharing your conversation with WoB (glad to know that 1000s miles away UMR.com is in a conversation…the power of the internet…lol)…..yesterday….I was looking at his career….Mr. McCrea will be coming soon….it is past time for a new page (still working on behind the scenes stuff on the website)…but I will try and have him done before I go to Hollywood next week.
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For me, Midnight in Paris is his best. A truly great film
Hey James….Midnight in Paris is a very good movie…his best movie in the last 25 movies for sure. I liked Owen Wilson in the Woody Allen role…..a fun, entertaining and educational movie. Thanks for the comment.
The Woodman”-(Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is my own fav. filmmaker “ALIVE”-(*Scorsese a runner-up) & holds all-time *AMPAS record for most script nods to date w/18. My fav. “Annie Hall”
Hey Spencer….thanks for the visit and the comment. Konigsberg has had a good career…..I need to add in his new movie….though it has not really gotten a wide release yet. Scorsese is another great one for sure. Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam, Midnight in Paris, Zelig and Sleeper are my top 5 Woody movies.
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I’ve always been a fan of Woody Allen. In fact one of my favourite movies is Hannah and her Sisters. The dialogue, the soundtrack, everything about the movie is so New York.
Radio Days is another favourite, he really did work well with Mia Farrow, despite their eventual break up. It was one of the best screen partnerships ever.
Hey Chris….I like Hannah and Her Sisters too. I think it is one of Woody’s best performances as an actor…..plus you get Michael Caine in an Oscar winning role. I thought Radio Days was ok…I loved Zelig and Purple Rose of Cairo. He and Mia Farrow had a nice run….their personal life is a train wreck. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.