UltimateMovieRankings (UMR) has been ranking movies since 2011. Movies are ranked by using a combination of box office grosses, reviews, and awards. So far we have ranked 36,000 movies, written over 8,500 pages, been viewed over 25 million times, won three website awards, and have received over 50,000 comments on our pages.
Our vital links: Site Index, Newest Pages & Request Hotline. The Trending Now Sidebar lists our most popular pages in the last 24 hours.
Our Site Index lets you see what movie subjects we have already written about. The index lists the movie subjects alphabetically. Subjects go from classic performers like Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin to the stars of the 1960s like Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman to today’s most popular stars like Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt.
We like ranking movies…and that is what this website is all about. And we are not talking about a Top Ten list…we are talking about ranking all the movies in somebody’s career from Best to Worst. The criteria used for the rankings is box office grosses, critic reviews, audience voting, and award recognition. Every day the amount of movies ranked by Ultimate Movie Rankings increases ….our tally is now over 25,000 movies. The number one ranked movie is The Godfather ….coming in last is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. Thankfully our pages have been well received. Recently we crossed the 15 million view mark and are now read in over 230 different countries.
How we got here.
Sometime in 2010, for the millionth time I was looking at Joel Hirschhorn’s book Rating The Movie Stars (1983) when I wondered had he updated his ratings lately? A quick internet check provided the sad news that Mr. Hirchhorn had passed away in 2005. About a month later, I thought I could update the ratings. I then came up with an idea to create a mathematical equation that would create a numerical score for each movie. The first thing I had to come up with were factors for the equation.
So I thought….if I were producing a movie, what would I like to see my movie accomplish. The first thing I would want would be for the movie to be successful at the box office. Secondly, I would like the critics and moviegoers to enjoy my movie. And finally, I would like my movie to receive award recognition through Golden Globe® and Oscar® ceremonies.
There are all kinds of ways to determine if you want to see or skip a movie. You can depend on your favorite critic. My favorites are the late great Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. You might go to Rotten Tomatoes to get the consensus of all the critics. You might watch the viewer ratings at Yahoo Movies and IMDB. You might depend on which movies are doing the best at the box office. You might wait for the end of the year awards.
Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score takes all of these options and creates a mathematical equation that generates a score from 1 to 100. The higher the score the better the movie. A “good ” movie score = 60 or above. So anything above 60 should be a good movie to check out. This gives a good comparison number between centuries and now my wife and I can argue over the merits of her favorite, The Sound of Music and one of my favorites, Pulp Fiction using the same scoring criteria.
So far, I’ve generated scores for 36,000+ movies. With these scores, I’ve written 1,000+ web pages with a focus on actors/actresses and similar groups (Star Trek vs Star Wars, Top 100 Sports Movies are examples).
So let’s look at the breakdown of the variables in the equation.
1. Box office results. Receives the second-highest percentage (30%) of the equation. The ceiling was 200 million in adjusted for inflation dollars. Any movie that crossed 200 million maxed out the points in the category.
2. Critics and audience reception. Receives the highest percentage (46%) of the equation. So where do I find critics/audience reception? I use many different sources: RottenTomatoes, IMDb, MetaCritic, Yahoo Movies, Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin, and Fandango. Put them all together and I get an average with 100% being the highest score possible. Sadly with the passing of my all-time favorite critic, Roger Ebert, I needed a new source….after much research…..our latest movie critic and taking Mr. Ebert’s spot is YouTube movie reviewer Chris Stuckmann.
3. Award Recognition. The final part of the equation is worth 24%. A movie gets points for Golden Globe® and Oscar® nominations and wins. The Golden Globes get 5% while the Oscars® get 13% of the equation. The last 6% goes to the amount of Oscar® nominations and the amount of Oscar® wins.
One way to see how the scores are calculated:
Top 200 Box Office Hits with Inflation + Top 100 Best Reviewed Movies + 88 Best Picture Oscar Winners = Top 100 UMR Score Movies
In January of 2011, we published our first Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score table on HubPages.com…we picked one of our favorite actors, Bruce Willis, to be the guinea pig. We have updated his page countless times over the years.
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Hey Andrija…..if the topic is movies…we would love to include it here. Including a link would not be an issue at all….so the question is….what are your articles about?
In setting out his criteria for the 25 males 1950-2010 Bruce makes no bones about the fact that Brando, Dean and Poitier are OUT because they are on the AFI Legends lists. However in the criteria for his 25 women he says that Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, the only 4 women on the AFI list who would time-qualify for Bruce’s own list, DO get onto his list.
That I feel is clear discrimination against male stars – the two genders are being subjected to different criteria so that one sex is disadvantaged – however unintentional. For some strange reason many people seem to think that discrimination exists only when it is practiced against for example females, the gay community or African American citizens
That’s not true and once discrimination at any level and in any situation, however seemingly inconsequential, is accepted it makes it that much easier for discrimination to be accepted at EVERY level and in very important matters such as people’s personal well-being and even their very lives.
I detest discrimination in whatever form it takes and however harmless it may seem within certain contexts and I wish to leave a clear message here as to why I will not be any longer joining in the activities if this site.
Those who might read this may not regard what is happening here as discrimination and that’s OK but if you do recognise the double standards that I perceive please don’t convince yourself that it doesn’t matter because it’s happening on only a movie site
Hey Bob….this is my Top 100…..I wrote it a few years ago……back then I basically left the AFI Actor list alone…..but on the Actress side I moved some of the actresses around…..as Monroe, Loren, Kelly and Taylor made my 1950-2010 page….while actresses that failed to make the AFI list were added but into the the 1920-1950 group. In the end…this is my Top 100 list….2 years later…I think I would take off Bacall and Daniel Day-Lewis…and include Heston and Hayward.
https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/top-100-movie-stars/
This list is two years old…..and not a dynamic page…..so the stats are out of whack…..and the actors are ranked by career box office…..I am sure there might be a few more tweaks I would make…..but right now I would stick with dumping Bacall and Day-Lewis and including Chuck and Susan.
HI MR W o C
1 Every post that I have submitted since I got my desk computer back has gone thru so have you cracked the spammer enigma?
2 Surely it can’t be that the tablet that I was using was letting loose the Spam Police? Maybe you could run that one past W o C as well.
3 I have just last night belatedly sent you comments on your excellent 1930 and 1965 Reviews- amazing how you can jump nearly 4 decades as if you were in a time machine! – and now the nail-biting waiting begins to see if you are going to reply to those posts though I suppose that as you have chalked up over 13,000 comments of your own I should forgive you if you miss a few of Steve’s posts now and then.
Hey Bob
1. Glad your computer is back.
2. Yesterday we went back to a spam blocker we used to use…..they claimed to have made some upgrades…..so Spam Busters is out…..early results seem promising…..hopefully it will stay that way.
3. The 1930 page is as far back as we are going to go for a long time…now the march is to 1980. ….lol…..60% of the 1960s are done…and 10% of the 1970s are done (Thanks Flora).
4. Heading to work…so responses to your comments will be later….but they will happen.
Glad to see you comments appearing again.
Thanks Big Guy!
Thanks for detailed response WH but I’ll persevere in meantime and we’ll see what happens. You’ve enough to do without starting to cope as well with posts via e mail.
One of my problems at present is that I’ve not cottened on to how tos save stuff on this tablet so that if a post does not go through I permanently lose it. However my rejuvenated computer is now sitting beside me again and MY w o c will be round to set it up tonight so I’ll once again be at least able to save posts. Indeed my comments should anyway probably be saved in the US Congress library along with the classic movies!!
Another potential long term solution is that you give up your day job altogether to police the site full time for us because you know I get withdrawal stmptons if I don’t get winding you and Moses lensman up at least once a day!
Seriously though despite occasional frustration I greatly appreciate everything you and YOUR W o C.are doing to make this wide ranging site as easy to use as possible so as I’ve just said to Steve “once more unto the breach dear friends- for King Harry and England”!
Hi Bruce
My posts keep getting blocked because of a nonsensical suggestion that they might contain spam and I, be wasted a lot of time recently. Can you say what,s going on?
Hey Bob
1. Sorry for the issues.
2. Issues that pop into my mind….last night I added a “Feature Comment” plugin……that might be the cause….it has since been deleted.
3. Spam Busters (the new spam widget we have been using) is seeing something it does not like from you comments…..will try and figure out what it is.
4. I can either turn off Spam Busters….which is currently the only thing between spam and the website….as we have deleted the numerous defenses……that should let your comment through…but it will probably unleash 100s of spam comments too. Like when they turned the
in: Ghost Containment Unit off in Ghostbusters.
5. If it is happening to all comments then we will have to go in that direction.
6. On a short term plan….you can e-mail your comments and I can post them….but I go to work in about 33 minutes.
7. On a long term plan….we have been trying to set up a “moderator” button….which would give you some access to the webpage…and you could approve your comments when they get stuck.
8. Sadly what I can do right now is limited….as I am getting ready for work…and then 8 hours of work.
So for the time being please try and send a comment…..and e-mail me if it does not work….once again sorry for the issues…I had hoped we had fixed the issue.
Bob, I’m trying to figure out why your posts are blocked by the spam busters. Could it be that you sometimes use all lower case letters in your name? No? Maybe because you don’t have a proper name? [Bob glares at the screen] No no I mean it’s just one name not a full name – ‘Bob’ but than other regulars use just one name too. Could it be the quotes in your comments?
Your posts don’t even end up in Bruce’s spam box? They are not allowed in at all?
Hi Mo
Thanks for considering my difficulties but a post to Cthulhu has just gone through with lower casing, a quote etc.
Also before my computer went on the blink I was able to save all comments and when I tried a “spam blocked” post a 2nd time it did go through. Tonight I’ll be using my desk computer again and Ty part 2 will be first to do the honours so well see what happens. Meanwhile I’m confident the mystery will be solved ultimately but if only Sherlock was a viewer on this site instead of just fans of theGreat Detective but I suppose we are lucky to Have Bruce Holmes and his Watson wife on the case!!
With the previous plugin, the only thing I found in common with trapped comments was long length. As a test, I typed a long comment and also had it trapped.
Cogerson is trying different plug in options, and appreciates your patience while he figures it out.
Thanks W o C