Dustin Hoffman Movies

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Want to know the best Dustin Hoffman movies?  How about the worst Dustin Hoffman movies?  Curious about Dustin Hoffman’s box office grosses or which Dustin Hoffman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Dustin Hoffman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information right here.

Dustin Hoffman (1937-) has been a movie star longer than I have been alive. That is a pretty impressive accomplishment especially when you consider that I was born in the 1960s. Over his close to fifty year movie career he has had great success both at the box office and critical acclaim.

His IMDb page shows 76 acting credits since 1961.  This page will rank 52 of his movies from Best to Worst in four different sortable columns of information. Cameos, television appearances, straight to DVD movies and shorts were not included in the rankings.

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in 1967's The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in 1967’s The Graduate

Dustin Hoffman Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Dustin Hoffman 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 Dustin Hoffman movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman 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 Dustin Hoffman movie received.
  • Sort Dustin Hoffman 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.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Dustin Hoffman Table

  1. Twenty of Dustin Hoffman’s movies crossed the magical $100 million mark.  That is a percentage of 38.46% of his movies listed.
  2. An average Dustin Hoffman movie grosses $126.90 million in adjusted box office gross….his voice roles were excluded from the averages.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  35 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies are rated as good movies…or 67.30% of his movies.
  4. 21 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 40.38% of his movies.
  5. 9 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 17.30% of his movies.
  6. A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00.  26 of Dustin Hoffman’s movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% of his movies.
  7. Dustin Hoffman has starred in 8 movies that have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar®…including 3 that wo n the Best Picture Oscar®: 1967’s The Graduate, 1969’s Midnight Cowboy it won, 1974’s Lenny, 1976’s All the President’s Men, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer it won, 1982’s Tootsie, and 1988’s Rain Man it won.
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in 1988's Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in 1988’s Rain Man

Possibly Interesting Facts About Dustin Hoffman

1. I am sure you know that Dustin Hoffman’s star making role was 1967’s The Graduate. But did you know he was already 30 years old when he played that part, and Anne Bancroft who played Mrs. Robinson was only 36?

2. Over his 45 year carerr, Dustin Hoffman has received 7 Academy Award® nominations (2 wins)….Kramer vs Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988). He has 9 Golden Globe® nominations (4 wins) for acting in movies.

3. In the 1980s, Dustin Hoffman only appeared in 4 movies. In 1982 he appeared in one of the biggest comedies ever…Tootsie. Then appeared in one of the biggest box office bombs ever….1987’s Ishtar. He rebounded in 1988 with his second Academy Award® for Best Actor in Rain Man. And finally he appeared in 1989’s Family Business.

4. Dustin Hoffman has been married twice. His first marriage was to Anne Byrne, it lasted from 1969 to 1980 and produced daughters Karina and Jenna. His second marriage is to Lisa Gottsegen, they were married in 1980 – they have four children, sons Jacob and Maxwell and daughters, Rebecca and Alexandra.

5. Dustin Hoffman is the only actor to have leading roles in three Academy Award® Best Picture winning movies Those movies are 1969’s Midnight Cowboy, 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer and 1988’s Rain Man.

6. When Dustin Hoffman was a struggling actor, his roommate was none other than two time Oscar® winner Gene Hackman. It took them almost 40 years but they finally appeared together in one of Hackman’s last movies….2003’s Runaway Jury.

7. Roles Dustin Hoffman either turned down or was seriously considered for…..Blade Runner, Batman Returns(Penguin part), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gandhi, Get Shorty, The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Blade Runner, Misery, Superman (Lex Luther role) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

8. In the 1960s Dustin Hoffman used to “chase women” with Ben Affleck’s father, Tim Affleck.

9. Dustin Hoffman directed his first movie in 2013…..Quartet.

10. Check out Dustin Hoffman’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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83 thoughts on “Dustin Hoffman Movies”

  1. Give me Papillon, Marathon Man and Lenny, after that he stopped trying he became too mainstream. Nice tribute, as I enjoyed reading about his movie life.

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    1. Well hinton1966 all the movies you mention were in made in the early part of his career….but I think he still made some great movies after the 1970s….Rain Man is outstanding….I appreciate your comments.

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  2. There is no arguing with this:

    Rain Man-he is amazing

    Marathon Man-thriller

    All the President’s Men-thriller

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    1. Hey mckbirdbks…..I agree with your thoughts on all three movies….thanks for checking out the hub and thanks for letting me know about the character map….it is making writing these pages a little easier….thanks for the comments….PS. Maybe your suggested Billy Holden will finally win the poll.

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  3. Awesome Page! My favorite Hoffman movie has to be either Tootsie or Kramer v. Kramer with Rain Man in second. I voted for William Holden, I don’t know too much about his career and I think it’d be interesting

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  4. My favourite Hoffman films are in order:

    Rain Man-he is amazing

    Marathon Man-thriller

    All the President’s Men-thriller

    I’m usually not able to actually order my favourites and thus write them alphabetically or by movie score, but this is one case where I can order them based on how much I love the film and how often I watch them. I can’t do this with a person like Peck, for example.

    I have seen:

    7 of his top ten box office hits, five of his top 10 critical hits, and 6 of his top 10 movie Score films. That seems like a lot until I tell you that overall I have seen only ten of his films, not quite a quarter of his career.

    The highest film I’ve seen on the movie list is Rain Man. The lowest film I’ve seen on the list is Finding Neverland at #18.

    Films I haven’t seen but are looking forward to seeing are, in Movie Score order:

    Papillon

    Runaway Jury

    Agatha-I know! I should have seen this already

    I Heart Huckabees

    The ten films I have seen are in Movie Score order:

    Rain Man-also my favourite Tom Cruise film

    Midnight Cowboy-funny how this was rated X but if released today would be rated R

    Tootsie-one of the few comedies I have seen multiple times that does not star Cary Grant. I’ve performed the song at the end of the movie.

    The Graduate-I love the music, but actually, this is probably what I would list tenth of the ten films I’ve seen. I’m not sure I would have seenit multiple times if I didn’t love Simon and Garfunkle music.

    All the President’s Men-I love this film. an example where the Press actually did make a difference in the world of politics. The real Deep Throat recently died. He revealed his identity himself shortly before then.

    Dick Tracy-fun, but not a film I’ve seen twice

    Marathon Man-”Is it safe?” My favourite Olivier performance

    Wag the Dog

    Finding Neverland.

    Films I have no interest in ever seeing even though they are on the top 10 critics or box office hits in alphabetical order:

    Kramer vs. Kramer

    Little Big Man

    Meet the Fockers

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    1. Hey Flora…..first of all I am shocked that you have not seen Agatha. If you would have told me before that you had only seen one Dustin Hoffman….I would have bet serious money that movie would have been Agatha. Good thing I do not live in Las Vegas.

      Well we agree on Rain Man and All The President’s Men…and Marathon Man would be near my top 3.

      Well looking at your list it looks like you have most of his most famous roles covered with the exception of Kramer vs Kramer and Papillon(which is more a McQueen movie than Hoffman movie)

      -I Heart Huckabees was not an easy movie to finish, I know it has some fans…..but I am not one of them.

      -Olivier is awesome in Marathon Man….glad he is not my dentist.

      -I think Midnight Cowboy might get a PG13 rating if it got released in 2011.

      And finally another reason why I like All The President’s Men so much…..my father worked at the Washington Post during the time frame of the Watergate story……he shared lots of great behind the scenes stuff about that time….his biggest complaint about the movie was the fact that the movie showed Redford and Hoffman doing lots of their writing on the floor with the other writers….he said the reality was….. everybody was so paranoid that all the writing and talking took place behind closed doors and was very hush hush….not something anybody on the Post would even mention to somebody who was not working on the story.

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  5. Another fantastic review. Little Big Man is one of my all time favorite movies. I like the narration approach it used. Following that would be Rain Man. I liked the graduate not so much for him, but Anne. I saw it in my junior year of high school around 70-71, so I guess I was behind the times. I saw it at a ‘drive-in’ theater. Hey what an idea for a movie page? – Drive In Theaters.

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    1. Hey tsmog, thanks for the compliment and for checking out my Hoffman hub. I agree Little Big Man is one of the first westerns I ever really noticed…talking a time long ago….I remember Little Big Man playing on the Sunday Night Movie of the week numerous times….that was back in the 1970s when Sunday Night Movies was the only way to see movies. Interesting idea about drive-ins….I was recently reading an article about the peak and death of drive-ins…..at one point there were thousands and thousands of drive-ins…thanks for the comments.

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