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Angela Bassett (1958-) is an Oscar®-nominated American film and television actress. Some of her best roles have been playing real people. Bassett’s role as Tina Turner in 1993’s What’s Love Got To Do With It earned her an Academy Award® Best Actress nomination. Her IMDb page shows 90 acting credits since 1975 . This page will rank 32 Angela Bassett movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Uncredited roles, bit parts, television roles, shorts and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. This UMR page comes from a request by Vandross.
Angela Bassett Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Angela Bassett 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 Angela Bassett movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Angela Bassett movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Angela Bassett movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Angela Bassett movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Angela Bassett movie received.
- Sort Angela Bassett movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Black Panther (2018) AA Best Picture Nom |
Chadwick Boseman & Michael B. Jordan |
700.00 | 828.3 | 1,593.60 | 1 | 80 | 07 / 03 | 99.2 | |
| 2 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) | Tom Cruise & Alec Baldwin |
220.20 | 260.5 | 936.10 | 8 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 98.2 | |
| 3 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) AA Best Supp Actress Win |
Lupita Nyong'o | 453.80 | 464.6 | 874.30 | 3 | 78 | 04 / 01 | 97.8 | |
| 4 | Contact (1997) | Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughey |
100.90 | 237.0 | 401.90 | 15 | 68 | 01 / 00 | 94.8 | |
| 5 | Boyz N the Hood (1991) | Laurence Fishburne & Ice Cube |
57.50 | 147.2 | 147.30 | 22 | 84 | 02 / 00 | 94.7 | |
| 7 | Malcolm X (1992) | Denzel Washington & Christopher Plummer |
48.20 | 125.1 | 125.10 | 32 | 83 | 02 / 00 | 92.4 | |
| 6 | Kindergarten Cop (1990) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 91.50 | 233.1 | 514.70 | 11 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 8 | Meet the Robinsons (2007) Voice Only |
Adam West | 97.80 | 153.3 | 265.30 | 28 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 89.7 | |
| 11 | Waiting to Exhale (1995) | Whitney Houston | 67.10 | 166.2 | 166.20 | 26 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 89.2 | |
| 10 | The Score (2001) | Marlon Brando & Robert DeNiro |
71.10 | 135.7 | 216.70 | 33 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 89.1 | |
| 9 | What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) AA Best Actress Nom |
Laurence Fishburne | 39.10 | 101.8 | 101.80 | 39 | 79 | 02 / 00 | 88.8 | |
| 12 | Olympus Has Fallen (2013) | Gerard Butler & Morgan Freeman |
98.90 | 131.2 | 225.80 | 36 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 81.7 | |
| 15 | Green Lantern (2011) | Ryan Reynolds | 116.60 | 158.5 | 298.90 | 24 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 81.0 | |
| 14 | F/X (1986) | Bryan Brown | 20.60 | 59.9 | 59.90 | 43 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 79.5 | |
| 13 | Soul (2020) Disney Plus |
Jamie Foxx | 0.10 | 0.1 | 137.30 | 311 | 85 | 03 / 02 | 77.9 | |
| 16 | Akeelah and the Bee (2006) | Laurence Fishburne | 18.80 | 30.9 | 31.10 | 117 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 76.1 | |
| 18 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) | Taye Diggs & Whoopi Goldberg |
37.70 | 86.6 | 86.60 | 54 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 74.8 | |
| 17 | Passion Fish (1992) | Mary McDonnell | 4.80 | 12.5 | 12.50 | 124 | 80 | 02 / 00 | 73.5 | |
| 19 | Notorious (2009) | Anthony Mackie & Derek Luke |
36.80 | 53.0 | 63.80 | 78 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 72.1 | |
| 20 | City of Hope (1991) | Vincent Spano | 1.30 | 3.4 | 3.40 | 158 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 66.2 | |
| 23 | Music of the Heart (1999) | Meryl Streep & Aidan Quinn |
14.90 | 31.7 | 31.70 | 100 | 64 | 02 / 00 | 61.2 | |
| 21 | Chi-Raq (2015) | Samuel L. Jackson & John Cusack |
2.70 | 3.4 | 3.40 | 157 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 60.8 | |
| 22 | Sunshine State (2002) | Timothy Hutton | 3.10 | 5.7 | 6.10 | 177 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 60.0 | |
| 24 | Strange Days (1995) | Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Lewis |
8.00 | 19.7 | 19.70 | 122 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 57.4 | |
| 25 | Nothing But The Truth (2008) | Alan Alda & Kate Beckinsale |
0.00 | 0.1 | 0.40 | 363 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 50.5 | |
| 27 | London Has Fallen (2016) | Gerard Butler & Morgan Freeman |
62.50 | 77.9 | 256.40 | 52 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 49.5 | |
| 26 | Mr 3000 (2004) | Bernie Mac | 21.80 | 37.9 | 37.90 | 101 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 45.9 | |
| 29 | Jumping the Broom (2011) | Paula Patton | 37.30 | 50.7 | 51.30 | 87 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 43.9 | |
| 28 | Panther (1995) | Kadeem Hardison | 6.80 | 16.9 | 16.90 | 133 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 43.0 | |
| 31 | Meet the Browns (2008) | Tyler Perry | 42.00 | 63.0 | 63.00 | 68 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 41.9 | |
| 32 | This Means War (2012) | Chris Pine & Tom Hardy |
54.80 | 74.2 | 211.90 | 59 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 38.4 | |
| 30 | Otherhood (2019) Netflix |
Patricia Arquette | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 395 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 35.5 | |
| 33 | Boesman and Lena (2000) | Danny Glover | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 345 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 30.2 | |
| 34 | White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) | Shailene Woodley | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 365 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 29.7 | |
| 35 | Orion and the Dark (2024) Netflix |
Jacob Tremblay | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 209 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 27.2 | |
| 35 | Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Netflix |
Karen Gillan & Paul Giamatti |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 331 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 22.6 | |
| 36 | Gospel Hill (2008) | Danny Glover & Giancarlo Esposito |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 318 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 19.8 | |
| 37 | Black Nativity (2013) | Forest Whitaker | 7.00 | 9.3 | 9.90 | 141 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 14.7 | |
| 38 | Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000) | Betty White | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 279 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 11.3 | |
| 39 | Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) | Eddie Murphy | 19.80 | 48.9 | 69.50 | 81 | 28 | 00 / 00 | 6.4 | |
| 40 | Supernova (2000) | James Spader | 14.20 | 28.5 | 29.70 | 115 | 33 | 00 / 00 | 5.0 | |
| 41 | Masked and Anonymous (2003) | John Goodman & Jeff Bridges |
0.50 | 1.0 | 1.00 | 207 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 3.6 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Angela Bassett
1. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born in New York City, New York in 1958.
2. Angela Bassett began to consider acting as a career choice after an 11th-grade class trip to Washington, D.C. during which she saw actor James Earl Jones perform in a Kennedy Center production of the play “Of Mice and Men”.
3. Angela Bassett earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1983.
4. After graduating from Yale, Bassett began working in the New York theater. This led to some television roles which led to movie roles.
5. Angela Bassett was born on the same day as…..Madonna.
6. Angela Bassett is one of 10 African-American actresses to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. The others in chronological order are: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe, Viola Davis and Quvenzhané Wallis.
7. Angela Bassett has been married one time…and has two children. She has been married to the actor, Courney B. Vance, since 1997….they met when they both attended Yale.
8. Angela Bassett was injured while filming the first spousal abuse sequence in 1993’s What’s Love Got To Do With It. She fell off the back of a high-rise sofa, put her hands out to reduce the impact, and suffered a hairline fracture of her right hand. She only tried the stunt fall once, and footage leading up to the mishap appears in the film.
9. Angela Bassett has played Betty Shabazz two times. Shabazz is Malcolm X’s widow. She first played her in 1992’s Malcolm X and again in 1995’s Panther.
10. Check out Anglea Bassett’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Hey Bob
1. A little bit of Kathleen Turner showed up on Angela Bassett’s page….I have corrected that error and put Contract in it’s rightful place….thanks for the headsup.
2. So it is not Dan’s fault….it is our fault…..so hopefully things are settling down in Belfast….lol.
3. That is interesting trivia about Bassett and Brando and billing. Good company for Ms. Bassett…Taylor and Suzman….ok…I admit….not too aware of Suzman.
4. Having DeNiro and Brando in a scene together….had to get some butts in seats…..so I think…his fee was well deserving. It is actually one of my favorite Brando roles….as it is one of the few that I have seen…that it looks like Brando was enjoying himself.
5. Thanks for sharing your favorite Bassett movies….she has made a nice mark in movie history…..she has a new television show these days…maybe that will spark a career renewal in movies for theaters.
Good stuff.
1 HI BRUCE You mention Roger Rabbit as Angela’s top scoring UMR flick but I don’t see it on her chart and none of IMDB, Wiki, The Numbers of Mojo credit it to her? But you’re right about one thing WH because I’m sitting here in tears as it is certainly a fall from grace if Dan can’t link a performer in somewhere. All I can conclude is that our Daniel is yet another person on this site that has fallen under the Rasputin-like spell of You Know Whom.
2 However Angela can boast of two trivial historical distinctions on top of being the big one of being in a select group of African-American actresses [listed by you above] to make the big time. She was the last actress ever to appear in a Brando film [The Score] and in that flick became one of only 3 actresses to be billed before Mr Mumbles in a non-alphabetical cast list after the 1951 Streetcar, the other two being Liz Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye and Janet Suzman in A Dry White Season.
3 However when he co-starred with Liz Mr M was going through his “wilderness” years and he had just a cameo in the latter film and little more than that in The Score. However he picked up an Oscar nom for Dry White, and for The Score he was paid a fee that would probably represent the entire pension pot that most nearly-80 year olds would enjoy on top of which in Mr M’s case Michael Jackson paid another small fortune for acting lessons which the Great One apparently conducted in drag!. So in some in cases Barbara Hershey in Hoosiers was wrong – certain Gods still don’t “come cheap” Put that in your pipe and smoke it Dan!
4 As your table amply illustrates Angela was never a vertiginous box office star but once again you have demonstrated that your site comprehensively covers a wide range of different types of deserving careers. My own favourite Bassett films were Malcolm X, Contact and especially Arnie’s Kindergarten Cop though I also enjoyed The Score and the one fly in the ointment regarding that one was Mr M joining DeNiro in Robert’s usual tirade of gratuitous swear words. I could do without lines like “I’ve been ****** by a bug!” For once I would have been happy had Mr M mumbled a line so that I couldn’t hear it