Want to know the best Faye Dunaway movies? How about the worst Faye Dunaway movies? Curious about Faye Dunaway box office grosses or which Faye Dunaway movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Faye Dunaway movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Faye Dunaway (1941-) is an Oscar® winning American actress. Dunaway’s career began on Broadway in the early 1960s. She made her movie debut in 1967’s The Happening. Her third movie in 1967 was Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde was a massive hit and made Dunaway a star. Faye Dunaway’s IMDb page shows 110 acting credits from 1965-2016. This page will rank 41 Faye Dunaway movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Drivel part of the page: A few months ago we wrote a page that listed the Top 25 Actress From 1950-2010. On that page we ranked Dunaway as the 18th best actress from that time frame. Since we think so highly of her, we figured it was way past due to write a Faye Dunaway UMR page.
Faye Dunaway 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 Faye Dunaway movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Faye Dunaway movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Faye Dunaway movies by domestic box office rank by year
- Sort Faye Dunaway movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort Faye Dunaway movies by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received.
- Sort Faye Dunaway movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Faye Dunaway Table
- Eleven Faye Dunaway movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 26.82% of her movies listed. The Towering Inferno (1974) is her biggest box office hit.
- An average Faye Dunaway movie grosses $72.00 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 18 of Faye Dunaway’s movies are rated as good movies…or 43.90% of her movies. Chinatown (1974) is her highest rated movie while The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) is her lowest rated movie.
- Eleven Faye Dunaway movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 26.82% of her movies.
- Five Faye Dunaway movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 12.19% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 11 Faye Dunaway movie scored higher that average….or 33.33% of her movies. Network (1976) got the the highest UMR Score while The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Faye Dunaway
1. Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida in 1941.
2. Faye Dunaway gave up a Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London to join the original training program at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York.
3. Faye Dunaway has been nominated for 3 acting Oscars®. She won for 1976’s Network.
4. Faye Dunaway is one of only four actresses, along with Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Liza Minnelli, to win both the Academy Award® for Best Actress (Network) and the Razzie Award® for Worst Actress (Mommie Dearest).
5. Faye Dunaway has been married two times. She has one child. Her first marriage was to Peter Wolf. Wolf was the lead singer for the J. Geils Band. Their song Centerfold is one of our all-time favorite songs.
6. Lead roles turned down by Faye Dunaway: 1969’s Paint Your Wagon, 1976’s Taxi Driver, 1976’s Family Plot, 1977’s Julia, 1977’s Fun With Dick and Jane and 1979’s Norma Rae.
7. Faye Dunaway and James Bond. Dunaway was considered for a role in 1965’s Thunderball and 1983’s Octopussy.
8. Faye Dunaway’s performance as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in 1974’s Chinatown is ranked number 36 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
9. Faye Dunaway’s cumulative totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $2.95 billion. Her movies received 49 Oscar® nominations…..winning 11 Oscars®.
10. Check out Faye Dunaway‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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STEVE:
As usual very interesting observations from you and as I like Faye too I thought I’d add a few comments of my own. They are:
1 Apparently Jimmy Stewart turned down the Howard Beal role opposite her in Network because of what he considered was too strong language in the film. Golden Holden did of course accept a role in the film but in an interview that I read he was almost apologetic for doing so because of the ‘bedroom’ scenes in the flick.
2 Faye and Sharon Stone were apparently great friends who saw themselves as businesswomen and they apparently met for lunch frequently to discuss potential business projects. I never found out whether any of them got anywhere.
3 A further crossover between Faye and Golden Holden was that he too had a mania for non-movie business ventures and he used to bore co-stars by beefing about deals gone sour.
4 Like Giancario I too was taken aback by the decline in Faye’s career but maybe the survey by W o C could give us some insight into that. Faye did however give a very sexy performance as a murderess who vamps Columbo to try to distract him from the case in a 1993 episode called It’s All in the Game.
5 Two years later she played 3rd fiddle to Depp and Mr Mumbles as you call him in Don Juan De Marco. She was alluring in that one too but in the plot Mumbles was her husband who had lost romantic interest in her for years. What a fool that man was off-screen – and on!
Anyway please keep giving your own contribution
BOB
🙂 Robert, Brando was referred to as Mr. Mumbles somewhere and it stuck with me. I know he’s a big favorite of yours but some critics were not very kind towards Brando, young actors worshipped him while the more sniffy adults saw him as a ‘neanderthal’. That was then, now he’s up there in the pantheon of actors, alongside Charlton Heston and Orson Welles [cue hushed silence].
Back to Dunaway, I remember seeing Supergirl at the cinema with a friend back in the 80s and when it was over we were covering our faces as we left the ‘theater’ hoping no one we knew would see us, that’s how embarrassed we were with that film. 🙂
Hey Steve….I will poise the same question I gave Bob….The Towering Inferno now has 7 UMR subjects….Newman, McQueen, Jones, Dunaway, Holden, Astaire and John Williams…..since you are such a student of this website….which movie has the most UMR subjects? The answer is 8. But what is the movie? A hint is…it is one of my favorites.
Supergirl is not a good movie….pretty sure Dunaway and O’Toole wondered many times while making that movie….why they accepted this roles. On my Marvel vs DC page…Supergirl is ranked 62nd (Ouch!) out of 64 movies.
8 UMR subjects eh, my guess is that it must be a war movie… not the Great Escape… or is ti? It might be The Longest Day… no I’ll go with… A Bridge Too Far?
That would be correct…I think my hint made it too easy. The Great Escape has 4 UMR subjects….McQueen, Garner, Coburn and Bronson…..while The Longest Day has 6 UMR subjects….Wayne, Mitchum, Burton, Connery, Ryan and Fonda. Gone With The Wind only has 4 UMR subjects Gable, Howard, Leigh and de Havilland …but it is listed it 16 UMR pages…by far the most on the website. So those were all the wrong answers.
That gets us to A Bridge Too Far…..as it has 8 UMR subjects….Sir Michael Caine, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Anthony Hopkins….Mr. James Caan, Mr. Robert Redford, Mr. Gene Hackman and Mr. William Goldman. Not thinking anymore will come from that movie….though I guess later in life I could see doing an Elliott Gould, Liv Ullman or Dirk Bogarde page.
Thanks for providing the answer.
Another one that is close is How The West Was Won….as it has 7 UMR subjects…..Reynolds, Stewart, Widmark, Ford, Peck, Brennan and Fonda….plus two more UMR subjects are appear in the movie’s credits but did not get UMR credit…Wayne has a brief cameo…and Tracy narrates the movie….add them into the total….and HTWWW would be the leader. Damm it…I guess I need to start researching Liv Ullman movies…lol.
Hey Bob….quick hits….(1) I would assume Faye and Sharon are still friends. (2) I can’t imagine Stewart in the Holden Network role at all. (3) The curse of 39 hits again. (4) I have seen Don Juan but it was years ago…I now have pages on all three main stars…Depp, Brando and Dunaway. (5) The Towering Inferno now has 7 UMR subjects….Newman, McQueen, Jones, Dunaway, Holden, Astaire and John Williams…..since you are such a student of this website….which movie has the most UMR subjects? The answer is 8. But what is the movie? A hint is…it is one of my favorites.
How the West Was Won has 8 if you just count screen appearances and 9 if you include Old Cantankerous’ s narration.
Very good…Bob…you are 100% correct….I just posted that on the 2nd reply to Steve….thinking about it more….I think I included Tracy’s narration on his page…but Wayne did not get credit for his 90 second scene. So it would be a tie…with A Bridge Too Far…and How The West Was Won. Your knowledge of this website…continues to impress me.
So who won Bob or Steve? I got the one you were originally thinking about and than Robert came up with a film that had even more names.
‘Old Cantankerous’? Now there’s an actor, no mumbling or ‘pause for effect’ from that old pro. 😉
Hey Steve….I would say you and Bob both won….and I lost….as I asked a trivia question for which I did not know the right answer. That is bad etiquette on my part. But you answered the question I asked correctly while Bob came up with a better answer. Then again if WoC were here right now she would hijack the database…run some programs and probably come up with a better answer than HTWWW. As some movie probably has 11 UMR Stars in it. Thanks for the correct answer….you are the man.
Watched Faye Dunaway fairly recently in the original Thomas Crown Affair, not a great film but it looks good. I enjoy the Pierce Brosnan / Rene Russo version more.
Dan must be a Dunaway fan, 36 out of 41 is pretty impressive.I’ve seen 18 of the films listed. Favorites include – Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Network, Little Big Man, The Towering Inferno, Three Days of the Condor and the Three & Four Musketeers (wow that’s an impressive bunch of films)
It’s been decades since I last watched Eyes of Laura Mars, but I remember liking it. Might be worth another look.
I haven’t seen her most infamous film, Mommie Dearest. I’ve read that she hates talking about that movie. It always comes up in interviews.
The Towering Inferno easily tops the box office chart and Chinatown and Network the critics and UMR chart. No real surprises there.
Faye was nearly a Bond girl eh, an interesting bit of trivia.
Nice work as always Bruce. Voted Up!
Hey Steve.
1. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
2. I like both Thomas Crown movies…..I love the ending of the McQueen movie…..so in a perfect world…..give me the first 3/4 of the new one and the last 1/4 of the original. Seems new Hollywood had to have a happy ending in the remake.
3. Yep Dan must be a big fan…but looking at the comments…he has already been bumped from the Top Spot by Faye Fan….so your 18 is barely holding on to a medal spot.
Currently Tally Counts
1st Faye Fan….39 Faye movies watched
2nd Dan…….36 Faye movies watched
3rd Steve…..18 Faye movies watched
4th Cogerson…14 Faye movies watched
5th Bern1960….12 Faye movies watched
4. I like and enjoyed all of your favorite Faye movies…her movie output from 1967 to 1976 was probably one of the best of all-time.
5. Mommie Dearest is worth checking out….it is campy fun…..just that is not what the movie was trying to do. Yes she refusing to talk about Mommie Dearest. You would think that at this point….she would have gotten over the pain of the reaction to the film. I bet she is glad that IMDb does not list that as one of the 4 movies she is known for.
6. The power of her beauty….up for two Bond movies…almost 20 years apart.
Thanks for the Faye thoughts.
She would have been great as Octopussy, a shame she didn’t take the role. I read that James Mason was offered the role of Drax in Moonraker and he turned it down.
I agree….she would have been good in Octopussy….she and Roger Moore would have made a great screen team. Mason was a great villain in North by Northwest….it is a shame he did not become a Bond villain too.
I have always been fascinated with how quickly her career slowed. Many, including herself, blame Mommy Dearest. Labeled a bomb, it actually did pretty well at the box office. She was and is still one sexy lady. Like this one!
Hey Giancarlo….thanks for stopping by and commenting. I have a theory that seems to have statistical proof that 39 is the end of the cliff for actresses. If you look at her age when she made Mommie Dearest she was right at the edge. Mommie Dearest made some money….but after that her career really started to slow. I feel she had three stages of her career…from 1967 to 1980 she was one of the biggest stars working….from 1981 to 2002….she became a supporting actress in minor movies and a frequent television actress….and from 2002 to today her career seems to be in the Nicolas Cage stage…roles in movies that head straight to home entertainment. So the short answer to your question is…Father Time caught up with her.
Have seen 36; have not seen the Calling, Drunks, Ordeal By Innocence, Festival in Cannes and Puzzle of a Downfall Child.
Hey Dan….thinking you will top the tally count…as 36 represents almost 88% of her movies. Of the ones you listed not seeing…not only have I not seen them….but with the exception of Ordeal by Innocence I had never even heard of them.
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Dan…..36 Faye Dunaway movies watched.
Cogerson 14
Bern1960 12
She did get a Golden Globe for Puzzle of a Downfall Child.
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Nice addition. I have seen 12 of her movies. With Thomas Crown Affair and Three Days of the Condor being my favorites. Thanks for another wonderful page.
Hey BERN1960…..thanks for stopping by and providing your tally count. Bad news is you are already 3rd….and the page is only a few hours old. Dan….36, me 14 and you 12. As for your favorites I assume you are talking about McQueen’s Thomas Crown as your favorite. Thanks for the input.