Want to know the best Cameron Crowe movies? How about the worst Cameron Crowe movies? Curious about Cameron Crowe box office grosses or which Cameron Crowe movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Cameron Crowe 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.
Cameron Crowe (1957-) is an American Oscar® winning writer, producer and director. His IMDb page shows 14 writing, 13 directing and 13 producing credits from 1982-2017. This page ranks 10 Cameron Crowe movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, music videos and documentaries were not included in the rankings.
Drivel Part of the Page: Yesterday during lunch I was listening to the Dan Patrick Show on the radio. Normally the show is all about sports….but yesterday they interviewed Cameron Crowe…..and it was an awesome interview. Crowe shared lots of behind the scenes stories (listed further down the page) of some of his iconic movies like Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Almost Famous and Fast Times At Ridgemont High. For the rest of the day….I thought about that interview….and decided that even though Crowe’s movie output is pretty low….that there were enough quality movies for us to do a Crowe UMR page….so here you go….our newest UMR page….Mr. Cameron Crowe.
Cameron Crowe 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 Cameron Crowe movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Cameron Crowe movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Cameron Crowe movies by domestic box office rank
- Sort Cameron Crowe movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Cameron Crowe movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Cameron Crowe movie won.
- Sort Cameron Crowe 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 Cameron Crowe Table
- Two Cameron Crowe moviea crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 6.67% of his movies listed. Jerry Maguire (1996) is his biggest box office hit.
- An average Cameron Crowe movie grosses $81.80 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 6 Cameron Crowe movies are rated as good movies…or 60.00% of his movies. Say Anything (1989) is his highest rated movie while Aloha (2015) is his lowest rated movie.
- Three Cameron Crowe movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 30.00% of his movies.
- Two Cameron Crowe movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 20.00% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 6 Cameron Crowe movies scored higher that average….or 60.00% of his movies. Jerry Maguire (1996) got the the highest UMR Score while Aloha (2015) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Cameron Crowe
1. Cameron Bruce Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California in 1957.
2. Cameron Crowe wrote for Rolling Stone when he was 16. The adventures of a teenager covering rock and roll bands can be seen in his movie…Almost Famous.
3. Cameron Crowe’s debut screenwriting effort, 1983’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student.
4. From Dan Patrick show: Crowe says that Sean Penn refused to audition for the role of Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Penn told the producers that he knew exactly how to play the part…and if they wanted to see it….then hire him. At the time Penn was an unknown actor…but his ploy worked as they gave him the role. During the filming…..they started calling Penn….Sean DeNiro.
5. From Dan Patrick show: In the famous John Cusack holding the radio above his head scene in Say Anything….Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” was not the song used during the filming. Cusack was playing one of his favorite songs at the time….but during editing…they realized that song did not work at all. Crowe was driving in this car when “In Your Eyes” came on his radio….and he realized the song was perfect for the movie. It turns out he was right.
6. From Dan Patrick show: “Just make us look cool”……That line of dialogue by Billy Crudup to Patrick Fugit in 2000’s Almost Famous was actually said to Crowe by Glenn Frey, when Crowe was covering The Eagles in the 1970s.
7. From Dan Patrick show: Tom Hanks was the first choice to play Jerry Maguire. When it came time for Hanks to decide if he was going to take the role.. he and Crowe had a face to face meeting. Even though Hanks passed on the role…the meeting went so well…that Crowe was on cloud nine. When Crowe returned to his producing team….he was like….”that was the best meeting ever”…..so his partners said….”so he is going to do the movie?”…..to which he responded….”no…but it was a great meeting”.
8. From Dan Patrick show: After Tom Hanks passed on Jerry Maguire….the script was sent to Tom Cruise. Cruise was so excited about the script that he flew to Cameron and was willing to read the part for him. Not thinking superstars do that too often.
9. Cameron Crowe has been married one time and has two children.
10. Check out Cameron Crowe’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Love this page. Crowe got off to a great start but things have been a little rough for him since then. I remember watching Almost Famous all the time when it played on television. Love Jerry Maguire too. Hoping he bounces back.
Hey Helakoski….glad you liked this page…..it sadly has not generated many comments…though it has a decent amount of views. I hope you are right….and a Crowe bounce back is coming…thanks for the visit and the comment.
The second time I almost forgot you had a new movie page Bruce.
Only 10 films from Russell… sorry, Cameron Crowe? Not that prolific was he?
I’ve seen 6 of the 10, that’s more than half! [cue Bruce shaking his head]
The ones I’ve missed are – Elizabethtown, Singles, We Bought a Zoo and The Wild Life.
Looking at your photos Say Anything has the iconic scene with John Cusack holding the boombox, I can never remember which of his films that was.
Jerry Maguire was a favorite of mine back in the late 90s but it’s been a while since I last watched it. I remember liking Almost Famous but again its been ages since I last saw it. I have the DVD.
Vanilla Sky was moderately interesting but ultimately I wasn’t impressed. Tom Cruise’s next foray into science fiction – Minority Report – was a lot better IMO.
Another top notch movie page Bruce. Voted Up!
Hey Steve….wow this Cameron Crowe page pretty much drew crickets here…I guess he is not as big as I thought….but I do appreciate you checking it out.
I am at 10 Crowe movies watched. Fast Times At Ridgemont High was one of the first R rated movies that I saw…so maybe that influenced me to see all of his movies.
Of the movies that you have missed….only Singles is worth checking out…..it is a good comedy/drama with a good cast. The other three are average at best…which describes his last movie, Aloho, too.
The boom box scene is a classic…..and one that still gets some homages today…..that is easily one of Cusack’s best performances. As for Vanilla Sky…I re-watch that one for Kurt Russell’s performance…which I find very funny.
Thanks for the Crowe feedback…it is greatly appreciated.