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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About Barbra: 6 Decades of No.1 Albums, PLUS 6 Decades of 100 million plus Dollar Movies (although, in all fairness, her part in the last “Fockers” movie was little more than 3 walk-ons :O)! Have seen her twice in Concert, in 2007 and in 2013- and I paid a lot of money…for two unforgettable nights! My favorite films of her are Funny Girl and Yentl, but I find joy in all of her movies. I also admire her for the fact that she openly speaks her mind- without counting the fans she’s losing by doing so. To me, she is the last true Hollywoodstar active today with her roots back in Hollywoods Golden Age, although many people said that era had died with Liz Taylor. An incredibly talented singer (like Judy Garland), an “unconventional beauty” (like Bette Davis), and, most importantly, a STAR with an unbelievable drive to stay at the top of her game (at least up to the 90’s, when she seemed to loose interest) remind me so much of the Crawfords and Stanwycks and Davis’ of earlier decades.
Hey Lupino….thanks for the great comment on Ms. Streisand…I would agree she is one of the last from that era….though we do still have Olivia de Havilland. Glad you enjoyed your two live performances…..I have heard many people say….that the expensive tickets are well worth the price….as she always gives great performances……thanks for stopping by
Hello Cogerson,
I know we still have de Havilland and we still have Doris Day- but both have retired ages ago. What I was trying to say was that Streisand, appearing on the scene along with the likes of Fonda and Dunaway, seemed to belong to another era than those two…to the era of Monroes, Taylors, Hepburns :O)
Hey Lupino….I understand….you are right about Day and de Havilland being retired for years….that leaves Streisand as one the people working in movies in the 1960s still working today. Off hand…I can only think of Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith and Sophia Loren from that era still working….and only Dame Smith is really working on a regular basis….granted Fonda does have a television show right now. Good points….your comments are greatly appreciated.
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I can’t believe Streisand is in her 70’s. A friend of mine went to see her a couple of years ago in London. The tickets were expensive but she was fantastic and worth every penny. I’ve seen about half of her movies, I always enjoyed For Pete’s Sake and What’s Up Doc. I wasn’t keen on A Star is Born compared to the two other versions, I thought it was quite weak. But I loved her in The Fockers, her and Hoffman were great together.
I can never understand why someone with such talent has done so little in the past few years, I hope the rumour is true about Gypsy. She’d be a perfect Mama Rose. Although if they’re going to do it, they’d need to do it soon. I quite liked the Russell version, despite it getting bad press.
And yes I forgot about Hello Dolly. I watched it recently, her and Walter were very good but they didn’t get on behind the scenes apparently, he couldn’t stand her. B
But she’s one incredible talent.
At this point, she might have to be the one to finance the movie herself. I love the movie Gypsy. I understand from people who have see the stage version of Gypsy that Russell was nothing like what Mama Rose should have been. I have not seen the stage version. The Chilliwack Players Guild is putting on Gypsy this month and are about to start the second week, but I think my schedule is such that I will not be able to see it. Too bad.
How fabulous it must have been to see her live.
I saw Cloris Leachman live in Showboat; Carol Channing in Hello Dolly; Donny Osmond in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; and:
Victor Borge as well. Also in the audience of The Orpheum theatre that night and sitting in the front row, never taking his eyes off of Borge once:
John Cleese.
All of these events were in Vancouver.
Since the Chilliwack Cultural Centre has opened up, artists come here, so we don’t have to go to Vancouver.
Hey Flora….well if anybody has the money to finance Gypsy….I am thinking she does. I just recently saw Gypsy…..it was ok….I can easily imagine the stage show being much better.
Sounds like you have seen some good shows. The only shows I have seen were Mamma Mia and The Wedding Singer…both were fun to see.
Glad your Centre has made it much easier to see the shows.
Hey Chris…..time flies…I am sure she is thinking the same thing. Seems Gypsy would be the perfect project for her. I have not seen Hello Dolly….other than the parts in Wall-E that is……her feud with Matthau has become Hollywood legend.
I have always found her role in What’s Up a Doc to be her sexiest part….she is lovely and pretty….and fun in that one. Her A Star Is Born is the only version I have not seen…..my mom is a huge Streisand fan and she thinks the same way you do when it comes to that movie.
FYI……working on your requested Western page…it is massive…hoping to finish it soon…thanks for your thoughts on Babs.
Western page!
Oh, a lot of my favourites made westerns. I have become a big fan of westerns in general in this internet era because I KNOW there will be nobody on their cell phones in them.
Many people don’t believe in flying saucers. But one landed 74 years ago and dropped off Barbra. She is not of this earth, but a gift from extraterrestrial entities as a gift to mankind.
That might explain lots of stuff Tony….I like your comment.
Looking through some pages and comments posted long ago tonight, I stumbled upon this one by Tony and it reminded me of a scene from Fran Drescher’s The Nanny- no exact quote, since I saw the show dubbed in german years ago, but the essence of it is certainly right: “Miss Fine, you are obsessed with Barbra Streisand! If you were caught in a shipwreck and you could safe either your own mother or Streisand, I’m sure you would safe Barbra!” To which Miss Fine replied rather annoyed something along the lines of “What a horrible thing to say! Of course I would safe my mother- Barbra can walk on water!”
The Way We Were …..One of my favorite movies!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Joanne….glad one of your favorites…The Way We Were ranked so high in our rankings. It was one of her most popular movies for sure. Thanks for visiting our Barbra page.
No matter what the look….Barbra is absolutely timeless.
I agree with you Apryl……she is an amazing talent.