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. As always, you really outdone yourself with this page. Plus, I liked how your starting to include little facts about the actors that many of us probably didn’t know. As far as the “Graduate” goes, I remember taking a film class in high school once, and we watched that movie too. All the kids in the class were grossed out on how an older woman would try to seduce a 20 twenty something year old character in the movie. However, that’s when our teacher yelled at us saying that it wasn’t that gross, as he mentioned their actual ages when they shot the film like you did here. lol. Granted, I know you can say it’s just a bunch of obnoxious kids, but it was still funny at the time. Not to dismiss the “Graduate”, as it’s actually one of my favorites. I was just bringing that up, since your page reminded me of it. lol.

    By the way, I decided to unfollow that stevennix2001 guy. Boy is he ever a pompous a** ain’t he? 😉 lol j/k

    Anyway, keep up the good work. 🙂

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  3. You know what would be really cool? If you asked for suggestions from each of your family members and submitted a poll to us, your fans, based on their suggestions. There could be one from each of them, or perhaps include only your eldest sons as I imagine your young children love everything daddy does. That would be five choices per poll-your Mom, wife, mother-in-law, oldest son, and second oldest son.

    Just a thought. None of your fans are related to you. Family first. 🙂

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    1. Comment 2. Good suggestion….of all the people you suggested….my mom is the one that reads and responds to every hub I write….so her suggestions generally go to the top of the charts….I have already covered her most requested actors…Hudson(her favorite), Day, Douglas(both Kirk and Michael) and Grant…I think the only one she has mentioned at all that I have not done is Tony Curtis. Yesterday big day on the Cogerson hubs…crossed 50,000 hits….still cleaning up the confetti. –

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  4. Well, first I love Bergman, so I am happy! hmm. Well, if it were me, I would probably make my mother-in-law happy and forget the polls. But I am *not* you, and that wouldn’t involve the polling system which you enjoy….Two of these names are dead. Two of these names are alive. If you want to keep your live dead live dead trend alive you should do a living person next. That is if this back and forth is important to you. In which case, Holden and Scheider will have to wait. If it is not and you are more interested in who is most requested, include only people requested by several different people. I’ve already stated who I will vote for regardless of the other names until Poitier is done. As for Holden and Scheider, I love both their work, but I would vote for Holden first-he has been on the list longer.

    If you were to put those 4 names up in a poll together, I would vote for Poitier. Steve would vote for Holden. as for others, it would be interesting how Scheider would do since he only recently died and thus I imagine a lot of your readers both young and old are familiar with him.

    But..I say make your mother-in-law happy and do Poitier after Bergman regardless of the polling sytem… broken record…Poitier…Poitier…Poitier

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    1. Hey Flora…so if I am reading this correctly you are saying I should do Scheider next?….lol. As my hubs have gotten somewhat more of a following the suggestions have gotten considerably more than I can produce….So I started the poll….which actually seems to have increased the amount of suggestions….other suggestions recently include Kim Novak, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Grace Kelly, Lee J. Cobb, Vincent Price and many others. So I think I am going to retire the poll…and pick the ones with the most requests….so Poitier, and Holden will be coming soon…..and thus my mother-in-law will be happy…especially with her about to return for a visit to see her grandkids. But I do thank you for your thoughts and suggestions.

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  5. Roy Sheider’s, Sorcerer a 1977 thriller adventure film, was more suspensful than Marathon Man. Pardon me Mr. Hoffman for saying so.

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