Want to know the best Barbra Streisand movies? How about the worst Barbra Streisand movies? Curious about Barbra Streisand’s box office grosses or which Barbra Streisand movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Barbra Streisand movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This Barbra Streisand (1942-) movie page comes from an e-mail request from KellyE1967 that we do more actress pages. We can now say that Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn have been completed per similar requests. Before Lady Gaga, Madonna and Oprah, Streisand had to be the most influential woman in the world (even if they did not have such titles back then). As a singer, Streisand has sold over 140 million albums and won 8 Grammy® awards. This page will look at her equally successfully movie career.
Streisand’s movie career started off with a bang. Her feature debut was in 1968’s Funny Girl. Funny Girl would be her second biggest box office hit of her career and win her the Oscar® for Best Actress. The peak of her movie career was from 1968 to 1979. She would appear in the blockbusters What’s Up Doc?, A Star Is Born, Funny Girl and The Way We Were. In 1983 she started to direct her own movies and had great success with Yentl and The Prince of Tides. After nearly a ten year break from movies, she appeared as Ben Stiller’s mom in 2004’s Meet the Fockers and 2010’s Little Fockers and most recently as Seth Rogen’s mom in The Guilt Trip (2012)
Her IMDb page shows only 20 acting credits from 1968-2012. This page will rank 19 Barbra Streisand movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her Sunday Night Live television appearance was not included in the rankings.
Barbra Streisand Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Barbra Streisand 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 by Barbra Streisand’s co-stars of her movies.
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Barbra Streisand movies by how they were ranked by box office in the year of their release
- Sort Barbra Streisand 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 Barbra Streisand movie received.
- Sort Barbra Streisand 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.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Barbra Streisand
1. Barbra Streisand was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
2. Since completing The Main Event….Barbra Streisand has only acted in 6 movies in the last 36 years….or one movie every 6 years.
3. Barbra Streisand is one of the few people to win/receive an Oscar®, a Grammy®, a Tony®, and an Emmy® award.
4. Barbra Streisand has received two Oscar® nominations for Best Actress (Funny Girl & The Way We Were), two Oscar® nominations for Best Song (A Star is Born & The Mirror Has Two Faces) and one Oscar® nomination for Best Picture (The Prince of Tides).
5. Barbra Streisand won Oscars® for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born.
6. Almost 50% of Barbra Streisand‘s acting performances have been nominated for a Golden Globe® award for Best Actress. Of her 9 nominations she won for Funny Girl and A Star Is Born. Streisand has been nominated for 2 Best Director Golden Globe® awards. She won for 1983’s Yentl.
7. Currently Barbra Streisand has 4 movies in the Top 200 Adjusted For Inflation Box Office Hits of All-Time: #134 Meet The Fockers, #171 Funny Girl, #186 What’s Up Doc and #196 A Star Is Born. A 5th movie The Way We Were just recently got knocked off that list. Pretty impressive, especially when you realize she only has 19 movies.
8. Although Barbra Streisand has appeared in only 19 movies, those 19 movies have been nominated for 44 Oscars®….or 2.44 nominations per movie. The 2.44 Oscar® nominations per movie is the highest average that I have found for any movie star. It barely beats out Clark Gable’s average of 2.42 nominations per movie.
9. Barbra Streisand has been married twice. Her first marriage (1963 -1971) was to actor Elliott Gould. They had one child together…Jason born in 1966. Her second marriage (1998 – present) is to actor James Brolin. She is the step-mother to actor Josh Brolin, as well two other Brolin children from his previous marriages.
10. Roles Barbra Streisand turned down….Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Cabaret, Chicago, Cinderella Liberty, The Exorcist, Julia, King Kong (1976), Misery, Oceans Twelve, Thelma and Louise and Titanic.
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Not much of a Barbra fan, but I do respect the numbers she put up, I had know idea that she had been in so many monster hits, thanks for sharing.
I agree Yankees Rule, the amount of money some of her earlier movies made is really surprising…..What’s Up Doc! was huge…..its numbers are even better than the first Hangover movie…I always wondered why it was ABC’s movie of the week so many times back in the 1970s….thanks for the comments
Ok – well I will just watch it with Dave then! Lol thanks!
You are welcome as always….I do believe Little Fockers will be the last of that series for a very long time….it scored a 11% on rotten tomatoes and people seemed to really dislike it.
I love BS! Ha! Really I do, and she is so interesting. One of the stars that hasn’t made herself so available to the press. She can act, sing – and she’s beautiful!
I have seen most of her movies but you’ve given me a few to look forward to. I didn’t see Little Fockers – I wonder if the kids can watch it?
Hey RealHouseWife….I agree that she is very interesting…..I know the latest most influential poll….put Lady Gaga over Oprah….but I bet Barbara has been in the Top 5 for 40 years now. Little Fockers might not be the best movie for smaller kids, lots of adult humor and a pretty gruesome Thanksgiving turkey scene…..as always I appreciate you reading and commenting on my pages.
Wow a man that listens, thank you for doing one of my favorites, and giving me new information. I did not even know I had a new Barbra movie to look forward to. My favorites are Funny Girl and Funny Lady. The Way We Were is one of the greatest romantic movies ever, although I did not like the ending. For her comedies I will go with What’s Up Doc! and For Pete’s Sake. I could go on and on but this is your page. Thank you thank you.
Thanks for the suggestion Kelly1967, I was surprised how successful her movie career was from 1968 to 1979….now I am trying to figure why she pretty much stopped making movies after 1979. I am glad you like your movie page, and as I wrote in the page….more women are coming to my movie pages….probably Elizabeth Taylor first…..as I am still working on Loy, Davis and A. Hepburn.
Oh Cogerson, this is girl! Of course, I fell out with her for a while when she did “The Way we Were”, cause she was trying to steal my guy. But I forgave her. All she has to do is sing. She’s one of the best to me, so it was a bonus to discover that her acting is not all bad either…and she’s funny! She turned down some great movies.
Hey Fay, thanks for visiting. She throw your guy back into the ocean by the end of The Way We Where. As for her singing my mom used to listen to her all the time when I was growing up. As for some of the movies she turned down….I think The Exorcist would have been very different if she had played the mom…..as always thanks for stopping by and reading the page