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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You have chosen to write about one of my favorite actresses. I loved watching her and Oman Sharif. Him and his ruffled shirt.
Hello Dolly was another of my favorites.
She is a national treasure.
This just goes to show, unlike the women of today who are almost clones of each other and full of silicone and plastic, great talent will always shine through.
Hey Blonde Logic….thanks for the comment and the visit. I am glad that I was able to have a movie page on one of your favorites…..her movie career was a lot more successful than I remembered….her great talent has kept her a star for almost 50 years now…and that is an impressive run.
You’ve written about one of my favorite singers and actors. Streisand, though difficult to work with because of her perfectionism, is truly an artist.
I tend to agree with your feeling about Ronstadt. I once did a live concert in San Franciso (singing ”
Somewhere over the rainbow” with Jim Neighbor on bass. Jim was Linda’s bass player for her live shows as well as her albums.
Love your Movie reviews and as far as I’m concerned you are right on!
Sharing this and rated up and across!
Hey vocalcoach….that is awesome that you did a live concert with Ronstadt’s bass player….that sounds like such a great memory…very impressive.
As for Barbra I was stunned on how awesome her movie career was when I did the research for this movie page…some of the best movie numbers ever for an actress or actor…..Oscars nominations, Oscar wins, box office hits, critical love…you name it she had it.
Thanks for the votes across the board and the share….I went ahead and did a quick update after I saw you shared…including adding a new column(box office rank by year)…it is greatly appreciated.
Meeeeemories… light the corners of my mind… oh sorry got carried away there…. problem with Leslie Caron is that she’s only about 5ft and looks very young in those classic musicals, while Cyd Charisse was tall and gorgeous and one of the best dancers on film. 🙂
Hey Steve, they both had great legs….although Charisse was taller…Caron’s scene with Father Goose where they think she got bitten by a snake was and is one of my favorite scenes. Glad to see that you are able to remember the lyrics for Memories…lol.
Hey- I was thinking. Was it you who said he was a Leslie Caron fan? I think Steve prefers Cid Charise. Why don’t you do a movie page on her and see what films you have not seen which should be at the top of your to-see list.
Hey Flora. Yep it is me that likes Leslie Caron…some of the nicest legs to ever appear on the silver screen. Steve does in fact prefer Cyd Charisse. I will have to do a search on Caron movies and see if there are enough for a hub. Thanks for the suggestion. P.S. I watched Funny Lady last night…decent but not great movie….Streisand and Caan did not have much screen chemistry…in my humble opinion.
Barbra is an original talent that will never be duplicated nor surpassed. She’s the greatest female recording artist of all time. She has made some amazing movies and is contiuing to make great films. She is a legend, icon, superstar and artistic genius.
Hey NYCman….thanks for the comments. I did a hub where I took all my hubs and ranked them by their numbers….and Barbra Streisand came up in 2nd place on that list…with Tom Cruise being the only one that had higher numbers. I personally was amazed at how strong her movie career was….between 1967 and 1980 there was no big box office/movie star working. I think the Guilt Trip could be funny and I am looking forward to seeing that one in the near future.