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.
Check out Barbra Streisand‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Yep….Steve You Tube video conversations sometimes dust off some cobwebs on one of our UMR pages…..the perfect example symbiosis. Glad Lupino like Streisand trending….last week it was Ida Lupino….this week Barbra…..and currently…Jessica Lange which was a Lupino request. Good stuff.
Steve,
great Video on Barbra! I’ve said it already on this page and I’d love to say it again: One of my favorite “more modern” actresses, and like Bob, I have seen all of her movies. About your ranking, I can hardly believe the relativly high position of what I have always thought of as her worst movie- For Pete’s Sake. Still can not understand what made her pick that screenplay…when she continuously refered to What’ Up, Doc as a silly piece of fluff. My ranking would be a little different, with Funny Girl and Yentl taking the top spots. I do have a silly weakness for The Main Event, although I know that it is a rather bland movie. Up the Sandbox is a strange one, but at least Barbra took on a part clearly outside her comfort zone. Liked her performance in Guilt Trip, but the screenplay as well as Seth Rogen weighed it down. Also higher in my ranking would be On a clear Day, while The Way we were is not a favorite of mine. Bob mentioned The Prince of Tides as one of his favs, I’ve watched it three times and each time found her performance in that movie rather annoying…but as a director, I agree she did a great job.No comment on The Fockers franchise…that third part was just horrid!!!
And yes, Streisand continuously named Brando as her favorite actor and in the scene Bob describes in one of his comments she states that she was “so jealous” of Jean Simmons, being able to act and duet with Barbra’s idol 🙂
Thank you for this- and all those wonderful videos I’ve watched but not commented on!
Hi Lupino, thanks for checking out my videos, appreciate the kind words.
As I told Bob I’m not a Streisand fan so when putting this together I hoped the ratings and positions weren’t wildly out of whack. Funny Girl is generally considered her best movie (and her first) though probably not as well loved as others like Prince of Tides and The Way We Were.
What surprised me was the high rating for the zany What’s Up Doc? a critics favorite more than a fan favorite I guess.
For Pete’s Sake too high on my chart? For pete’s sake Lupino it’s in 12th place out of 19 films, where did you want it, last? 😉
Bruce has it in the top 10 on the critics chart, at no.9. I haven’t seen it so I can’t comment on it’s merits.
“For pete’s sake Lupino it’s in 12th place out of 19 films, where did you want it, last? ?”
Yepp, perhaps followed by Little Fockers at no.20 ;O)
Steve,
your video put Babs on the no.1 spot in the “Trending” charts 🙂
Always love to see favs occupy this months after Bruce initially published a page!
Hey Steve and Lupino……I think Steve and have For Pete’s Sake almost in the same place. I have seen it many times…my mom loved it. She used to get all excited about it showing on network television. Her heyday was the 1970s when it came to movies….For Pete’s Sake….is not in her Top 5 of box office hits for that time frame….so maybe others feel the way you do Lupino.
HI GUYS I have been reading your exchanges about Babs and her Lensman video and interesting and informative they are. They remind me though of something in my pre-retirement days when I worked for the Northern Ireland Civil Service
The government Minister at the head of my department, Mr Brian Mawhinney of the British Conservative party, held a meeting in which 4 of my bosses were in attendance and I was there for the first time as the “flunkey” who simply took the minutes of the meeting [the others were all high powered people within my organization]
When I entered the Minister’s room one of my bosses was there and he introduced me to the Mr Mawhinney and told the latter my function at the meeting. The Minister politely acknowledged me with a “Hello Bob.”
However as the other 3 bosses entered at intervals each of them in turn also introduced me to Mr Mawhinney and told him why I was there and as they did so I could see him becoming more and more impatient so that finally he snapped and demanded “Will people stop telling me about this man!”
Steve has told us about Babs’ links with Dustin Hoffman and another coincidence is that Dustin like Barbra is a great Brando fan and in a movies anthology that I read for which Hoffman wrote a forward he highlighted the influence that Marlon in particular had had on him when he was an up-and-coming actor.
My latest quote means that the three of us over the past few days have been sharing our knowledge of many flattering quotes about Marlon so that “Will people stop telling me about this man” is sure to be in the thoughts of those on this site who believe in the teachings of Joel Hirschhorn – and you know who they are!
Nevertheless as Hackman said to his team at the end of Best Shot aka Hoosiers “I love you guys!”
Bob, Lupino, I’m happy Babs page is ‘trending’. Bruce helps boost my videos by linking them on his site so it’s great that he get something out of it too.
Plus all this chit chat keeps the page ‘trending’ too.
Brando must have had more mentions on this site than any other movie person… well… except maybe Myrna Loy. [Bob grimaces]
HI STEVE
I explained once to Bruce that whilst the likes of Widmark, Greg and Laddie are my top favourites nobody else in my household was interested in those actors but my brothers were enormously interested in Brando and my father was a Duke nut but a Brando hater so there were heated discussions all the time about that pair so i licked up more information about them than about most other stars.
I didn’t particularly like either of them at first but they grew on me because of the exposure they got in our household and now they are in the bottom half of my personal top 10 males along with Charley Bill Stuart -say we haven’t heard of him in a long time as I got the idea talk of reincarnation frightended you!
I don’r think I ever heard ANYONE talk of Myrna until Bruce started to wax lyrical about her. If I told my brothers that there is a guy here that thinks she’s as big as Gable I would become like Bing in High Society to whom Frankie sang “I have heard that in this clan,you are called the forgotten man!”
Barbra did For Petes Sake as a favor to her manager Marty Erlichman who produced the film. It vwas a great summer film following The Way We Were and disappointing Up the Sandbox. I call it Whats Up Doc light. Not as good as Doc or owl and the Pussycat (which seems somewhat dated) but far better than her later comedy ventures like Main Event (although her vocals on that song are amazing) and those dreadful Focker films and what I’m afraid will be her swan song the mediocre Guilt Trip
Hey Dave….thanks for the behind the scenes information on For Petes Sake. Thanks for the mini-reviews as well. I enjoyed The Main Event….it is far from being a great movie…but it is fun seeing Streisand and O’Neal on screen together. One can hope that Guilt Trip is not her swan song….I think she has one more good movie left in her….fingers crossed.
NO! NO! NO! Steve -Babs is normal – Joel’s the freak!
By the way – I’m ALWAYS right!
Streisand on Brando, links
https://izquotes.com/quote/180023
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barbra_streisand_126766
Thanks for links Steve
“A performer can’s be consider a true Great until other established Greats recognise him/her as one of their number” a movie critic suggested and Babs Streisand is one of the relatively few major female stars whom I have heard rave about the screen’s greatest orator in the way that the men such as Nicholson, Olivier, Burton and Dreyfus have done.
She is such a Brando idolater that on one of her TV shows she even arranged it that she “sang a duet” with him in his movie Guys and Dolls – please Google “U Tube – Streisand and Brando sing I’ll Know when My Love Comes Along.” Oh what clear diction in the singing of both of them!
When Marlon was being criticized by the likes of Mr Hirschhorn [and even bizarrely by a Labour MP in the British House of Commons] for getting outrageous fees for very little work in Superman 1978 and Apocalypse Now Babs publicly defended Brando by pointing to the massive box office [well over $2 billion collevtively worldwide in today’s money according to Bruce] for those two films that Marlon’s name had been used extensively to publicise. SHE is the “anti-Joel”!
Your fave speech therapist and Babs were apparently great friends and in a TV interview that I saw she said that they regularly went on road trips together. When she insisted that their relationship was purley platronic a cynical friend who was watching the interview with me chuckled “Now tell us the one about the three bears!”
Bruce ranks Babs a high10th in his 25 Greatest Actresses 1950-2010 and in his lead-in on this page The Work Horse has given us a summing up that I could never match of Babs’ own multi-layered highly versatile career so I’ll get straight into my comments on the best POSTERS in your video – The Main Event, Funny Lady, For Pete’s Sake, A Star is Born, foreign language one for On a Clear Day you can See Forever, What’s Up Doc, the really raunchy ones for Funny Girl and Owl and Pussycat and All night Long
Continued———-
PART TWO
In All Night Long Babs replaced Lisa Eichhorn as lead female and Gene Hackman who was contracted as the movie’s star publicly proclaimed “She’s not stealing my top billing!” In fact Babs took 2nd billing and it was actually the first movie in which she was billed less than first in her entire career up until then. The pole scene in your poster in which Babs displays her underwear is said to have been an attempt to emulate Montoe’s grating scene in 7 Year Itch.
Super STILLS are Babs with Seth Rogan, Up the Sandbox, Streisand with Jimmy Caan, Babs with Dustin, an exceptionally iconic one of her with Kristofferson ,Babs as Dolly, the lobby cards [I think] for Lentl, Owl and Pussycat and The Way We Were and with Nolte in Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides is probably my own fave Streisand flick though it could be argued that Nick Nolte had the main role. Indeed Nick gets billed 1st in cast lists [see IMDB and Wikipedia pages for the movie] and on the screen in prints that I saw but Babs as you say directed the film.
“At the end of each day I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise. I say ’Lowenstein, Lowenstein’.”
Streisand and Julia Roberts are probably my greatest female favourites among the more modern stars just as Joan, Deanna and Doris were my feminine idols in the Classic Era so your video has been a great weekend treat for me worth 97% despite its relative brevity as Babs made only the 19 films you have included.
You and this site’s Funny Guy agree on just 3 of Streisand’s Top 6 best reviewed films – Funny Girl, What’s Up Doc and Prince of Tides [thanks!]. You two are really far apart on your No 6 Nuts which you give a 68% rating but which The Wise One ranks 12th with just 52% rating.
“Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories of the way we were…”
[Bob wipes a tear]
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my compact, picture filled Barbra Streisand video, appreciate the lengthy comment, info, trivia and comparison!
Glad the posters, stills and lobby cards met with your approval.
I thought after Judy Garland and Doris Day, Streisand would be an interesting video week capper. If only she’d made one more film so it could have been a Top 20, oh well.
Btw I forgot to mention this in a previous post – Judy and Doris were born in the same year 1922, Doris was a few months older. Judy died nearly 50 years ago and Doris is still with us.
I have a confession I’m not a Streisand fan, I’ve only seen 4 of her films and two of them were Fockers. Bruce has seen 14 of these and Flora 10. I’m assuming Bob has seen all of them and has a large collection of Vinyl records which might be worth something on ebay.
Only one Streisand movie scored 10 out of 10 and it’s not one you’d be expecting – What’s Up Doc? Bogdanovich’s screwball comedy.
No.1 at IMDB is What’s Up Doc? and that film is tops at Rotten Tomatoes too. I saw that film years ago but can’t remember it much just the big chase at the end.
Bruce and I have the same top 2, not bad. ‘Nuts’ did a lot better on my chart, 6 out of 10 was the lowest score I could find for that one.
Babs on Dustin Hoffman – “We were in the same acting school when I was 16, 17 years old. I used to babysit to get free acting lessons, and he was the janitor.”
Babs on Brando – “The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?”
“I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for your response to my Streisand posts.
You seem of have a deep reservoir of interesting and informative quotes most or all of which are normally new to me.
Brando the greatest actor that ever lived? Sure Babs said that? You haven’t copied something from a Joel review by mistake?
Interesting points about Dustin/Babs and Judy/Doris, so thanks for sharing them.
Hi Bob, I found that Brando quote at IMDB it’s also available at other sites, I’ll post a link in a seperate post in case this one doesn’t get thru. You were right Babs was quite the Brando freak!
Hey Bob and Steve….good to know she was a Brando fan….thanks for sharing the links…it is greatly appreciated.