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. Cogerson-off topic: following your request for Hall and Oates I’ve written the poem and that will be the next in the series. However, the next two pages are on my cat and then Cinderella, so I will not publish the poem until this weekend.

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    1. Sounds good to me Flora….trust me I realize that requests can back up. My mother in law has been waiting for a Sidney Poitier movie page for 5 months now….thanks for keeping me posted

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  2. 75 years old?!?! Wow, DH has aged like a fine wine!!! He’s a superb actor and I’ve been told by my brother and cousin who met him that he’s super nice and down to earth! Rain Man is my favorite movie, followed by Kramer vs Kramer and the Fockers flicks! Wow…74?!?! Who woulda thought! !

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    1. Hey Sunshine625….yep I was shocked when I realized he was 74…..but then again he was 30 when he hit it big back in 1967. He is aging very well and I am glad to see he is nice guy when not on a movie set. I like all the movies you mentioned with the exception of the last Focker movie…Little Fockers…that was a terrible movie…only made for the sake of money. Thanks for visiting…so which non-pulse actor did you vote for?

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  3. Cogerson: re: why I avoid Kramer vs. Kramer: I don’t want to watch a movie about a divorced couple fighting over custody of a child. Too depressing and tense, and really, not helpful for the child.

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    1. Hey Flora….I understand your reasoning….I will say that the way movie is designed …..Streep leaves him and the boy during the first 5 minutes of the movie….and then we do not see Streep until the final 30 minutes…when she wants the boy back. Meanwhile the movie deals with Hoffman adapting to being a single father…and he realizes all the things he thought were important were really not important….and that his son is what it is all about. Having raised my older two children as a single father….I can really identify Hoffman’s character. My older kids and I used to watch this movie repeatedly back in the day.

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  4. Little Big Man Is My Favorite Dustin movie…Though The Casino Scenes In Rain Man Are Some Of My All Time Favorite Scenes

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  5. I saw Sphere. I couldn’t buy into the idea that Hoffman And Stone were ever a married couple. Mr Magorioum Wonder Emporium!? That movie had to be worse than Ishtar!

    I did like Midnight Cowboy and Wag the Dog. He has done some good work. In fact Rain Man is my favorite Tom Cruise movie because of the work of Dustin Hoffman.

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    1. Hey Ruffridyer….Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium was a very strange movie….Hoffman seemed to be trying to do a Johnny Depp role in a Tim Burton movie…it did not work.

      I think you are one of many people that say RainMan is your favorite Tom Cruise movie because of Dustin Hoffman….he deserved his Oscar that he won. His Ratso is a great character…I loved the spoof Seinfeld did of that movie. Thanks for the comments

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