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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Came back to check on how your Faye Dunaway page has done. Can I ask is 660 total good or bad? And how does 43 comments stand? If you do not want to give out that information I understand.
Hey FayeFan….thanks for coming back. I would say that the page has gotten off to a good start. Usually when they get published there is a huge view crunch….then it slows up…..and about a year later it starts to pick up. When I first started doing these pages…I read the stuff you write today is not for today…but in about a year. At the time I did not understand it….but now it makes more sense. I think it has a lot to do with Google…the older the page is…the more Google seems to like it…..and the search rankings get better….the more views the page gets. As for comments…I would say the 44 comments is better than average…..so I would say your requested Faye Dunaway page has been a success.
Hello Bruce. Nice page on Faye Dunaway. At her peak in the 1970’s I liked her more than Jane Fonda or Barbra Streisand. She was a very good actress. I liked her in The Musketeer movies as well as her role in Chinatown. Chinatown was one of her best films. As a matter of fact Chinatown was my favorite film of 1974 and I was rooting for it to win the Oscar for Best Picture over The Godfather, Part II. I loved Bonnie and Clyde, The Musketeer movies and Network. For me she hit her peak with Network.
Hey Lyle…thanks for checking out our Faye Dunaway page. After a slow start she is the 93rd actress to get a UMR page. I agree with your comment. Chinatown has a disturbing secret to reveal…but it is an excellent movie…with Dunaway giving an all-time great performance. Cool memory of rooting for Chinatown over Godfather Part 2…..I am still disgusted that Chariots of Fire knocked out Raiders of the Lost Ark for Best Picture….35 years later and I am still bitter…lol.
I agree she reached the top of the mountain with Network….it has all been downhill when it comes to her leading lady movie career. Her 9 year run (1967-1976) stacks up against the best actresses ever. PS. I fixed your comments….in case you are wondering where it went.
BRUCE
1 Regarding the roles that Faye passed on, when in general such considerations are mentioned in relation to a star I am always reminded of lines that Gene Hackman spoke in Hoosiers within a different context.
2 Speaking to half of the town who are assembled for his announcement of the basketball team selection but who turn hostile when they learn that a few of the local stars are excluded Gene admonished them: “We are here to support who we are. Not who we are not. THIS is your team.”
3 Anyway I will digress slightly to say that I’m pleased we are both agreed that Hoosiers is a great sports movie. Within my wider family that one, Redford’s The Natural, and the probably little known The Best of Times**starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell have become cult flicks that require repeated viewing. My brothers particularly love Hackman and his players repeatedly shouting “Team!” throughout Hoosiers and the iconic screen names of Williams/Russell in Best of Times which are respectively Jack Dundee and Reno Hightower!
By the way here in the UK Hoosiers was called Best Shot.
Best wishes BOB
**Listed 41st out of 51 and accorded a paltry adjusted 17.7 in Cogerson’s Robin Williams page. Am I in the company of Philistines!!? If you decide to answer this question don’t keep W o C waiting for lunch !
Hey Bob.
1. Good point….about “We are here to support who we are. Not who we are not. THIS is your team.”…..but it is still good to know “what could have been”? I have been toying with doing a page that looks at James Dean’s movie career IF had lived a very long time.
2. I love Kurt Russell and Robin Williams…..I like Best of Times…..but Williams’ character pulls that movie down for me…..but I blame the script for that and not Williams’ performance.
3. Hoosiers = Best Shot….very interesting.
Hello Bruce,
I’ve seen 12 movies of the actress. My favorites are Thomas Crown (wich was a bomb in France, however Steve McQueen was very popular at this time) and Chinatown.
In France, she was a sex symbol, but not a star. She has had little success at the box office. Without Towering Inferno and Joan of Arc, her two biggest success are Chinatown and Bonni and Clyde (under 1.9 millions tickets solds). Other success (over one million) were, in descending order, Little Big Man, Three days of the Condor and Eyes Of Laura Mars.
My mother loved The Champ, and she’s seen it a lot of times, and I’ve seen my mothers cry watching it a lot of times lol.
Hey Laurent….thanks for the tally count….12 is a pretty good total. I am right there with you with Chinatown and Thomas Crown. Surprised McQueen could not get people in France to see that one. Wow Eyes of Laura Mars was big in France….I would not have guessed that. I have the same memory of my mom crying at the end of The Champ. When I get home from a training class for work…I will sending you the 1950s box office rentals I have. Thanks for the comment and the tally count.
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 & Laurnet….12 Faye movies watched
7th Wife of Cogerson 2 Faye movies watched
Hi
I always admired Faye Dunaway. I think she’s a person who was widely admired for her professionalism but I don’t think there was a massive swell of love for her. In her peak years in the 70’s, she was always a notch behind Fonda and Streisand. I suppose Fonda with the political stuff and Streisand with the music, always came across more interesting. Nevertheless, Bonnie and Clyde is one of the greatest gangster movies ever. Her and Beattie created magic. I loved the bit where they picked up the young Gene Wilder and when she finds out he’s an undertaker, she turfs him out on the road. And of course the big shootout at the end. I was 17 the first time I seen it, I couldn’t believe it.
She was brilliant in the Musketeer movies, playing the villain. I’m not a great fan of Chinatown although it was highly admired, it just doesn’t do it for me.
On the other hand, Network was superb. The famous picture of her with her Oscar at the pool is fantastic. I think she was wasted in The Towering Inferno. As for Mommie Dearest, she got a lot of flack at the time, especially from veterans like Merna Loy and Barbara Stanwyck who were personal friends of Crawford. Many people thought it was a hatchet job but let’s be honest the book that the film was based on was a hatchet job so how could it be anything else! But I think her interpretation of Crawford was fair under the circumstances.
For some reason her reputation went downhill after that. The Wicked Lady was pretty poor compared to the original and Supergirl was dire. But there’s no doubt she was a very talented lady. But haven’t heard much from her lately.
Hey Chris.
1. As always….thanks for stopping by and sharing your movie thoughts.
2. I think she was in the mix with Fonda and Streisand….actually if you look at her rejected roles….Fonda was getting many of the movies that Dunaway passed on.
3. I agree that Bonnie and Clyde is one of the greatest gangster movies ever. I think people forget that Wilder was even in the movie….but you are right that is a good scene.
4. She was very good as the villain in the Musketeer movies.
5. Well…we can not agree all the time…I am a huge Chinatown fan….Huston, Dunaway and Nicholson’s performance are among my favorites of all-time.
6. I love that post-Oscar picture too….I had to include in the page. She was outstanding in Network…in many ways that was the peak of the mountain for her….but at least she made it to the top.
7. Good points about Mommie Dearest.
8. Wife of Cogerson did a movie project for her masters degree….and she found some amazing stats that show….at the age of 39…all actresses fall off the cliff when it comes to there career. In this case she was 39 while filming Mommie Dearest….and even though it was a hit at the box office….she never carried another movie to box office glory. The curse of 39 got her too.
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