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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Barbra is turning 73 this year and TCM is honoring her with a night of her films on Tuesday, April 24th.
Hey Flora….thanks for the information about TCM and how she is turning 73….wow….73 I does not seem possible…but then again she has been famous for almost 50 years.
streisand’s movie career is awful and her singing is suspect because when she sang live for her audition for a record deal, the executives at columbia turned her down it wasn’t until her manager got a recording that enhanced her voice, that they decided to give her a chance. Also i’v seen her in concert and the truth is she can’t match the quality live that she masters in recordings ( please no stage-fright excuses ) if you want to hear a singer who is really gifted and can sing better live and actually surpass her recordings take a listen to linda ronstadt.she has a much better and powerful voice than barbra. don’t let 20 some years of listening to recorded streisand fool you into thinking that her voice is better ( like i did ). here’s an example i heard the song evergeen 0n recordings and was amazed by the way streisand held her last note. When she sang it in her one voice concert. she didn’t hold that note. and to me holding notes and such is what made her special. so if she can’t do the special things live. she really is not that great after all.,but linda ronstadt can do all her great singing live. LIsten to her version of “love has no pride” on you tube. (the one wear she’s wearing the short light blue dress) unlike streisand who has big productions , ronstadt sings on a simple stage and blows me away more than streisand ever did live. and that’s how i know linda ronstadt is a much better singer and if you listen to ronstadt’s other songs you’ll find that you’ll like them right away ( unlike barbra’s)
Hey rich….thanks for such a detailed response to my Streisand hub. I can not say I am a huge Streisand fan….but it looks like her movie career was very successful from Funny Girl to the Main Event. That is almost 12 years of box office gold.
As for Streisand the singer…you make good solid points about her currently singing skills….although I am sure that will offend the very loyal and protective fans of her. As for Linda Ronstandt she has always been one of my favorites from when I first started listening to music….thanks for the visit and the review of her concert work.
Loved this page. I’m a big BS fan (though I know some of her co-stars didn’t, Walter Matthau is supposed to have said “I have more talent in my smallest fart than she has in her entire body.”. I think there are few actresses in film with her comic timing and flair. Watch her in Owl and The Pussycat and For Pete’s Sake to see her at her best in this respect. She is a real ‘star’ in every sense of the world and I think her only being in 19 movies shows that she is very selective in what she chooses to do and gosh, she has chosen very well!
Hey Jools99….I agree with you about her….I was shocked when I realized that she had only made 18 movies….and her run from the late 1960s to 1979 was one of the best runs ever. She is awesome in For Pete’s Sake….I have not seen The Owl and The Pussycat yet….but it is on my list of movies to watch. Thanks for the Walter Matthau quote…I had not heard of that one before….I like Walter but I do not think he was correct in his quote. Thanks for stopping and for the comment
I’ve already read them. Thanks!
great! Let us know what you think
Hey Flora, I put my comments on Jekyll and Hyde on the Spencer Tracy page.