Want to know the best Halle Berry movies? How about the worst Halle Berry movies? Curious about Halle Berry’s box office grosses or which Halle Berry movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Halle Berry movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences or which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Halle Berry (1966-) is an American Oscar® winning actress. It is hard to believe but her movie career is closing in on 25 years already. Halle Berry has gone from a fashion model to a supporting actress, superhero, Oscar® winner, and one of the highest-paid actresses during those 25 years. Her IMDb page shows over 55 acting credits since 1989. This page will rank Halle Berry movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances and movies not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.
Halle Berry Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Halle Berry 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 Halle Berry movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Halle Berry movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort Halle Berry movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort Halle Berry 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 Halle Berry movie received.
- Sort Halle Berry 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.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Halle Berry
1. Maria Halle Berry (1966-) was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
2. Halle Berry’s path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. She was first runner-up in Miss USA beauty pageant in 1986, moved to Chicago to focus on her modeling career, moved to New York City in 1989 where she landed a role on the short-lived television show Living Dolls, moved to California for her role in Knots Landing, appeared in her first movie role in 1991’s Jungle Fever, and then her roles started getting bigger and bigger in better and better projects.
3. Halle Berry has been nominated for one Best Actress Oscar®….she won for 2001’s Monster’s Ball…thus becoming the first woman of color to win a Best Actress Oscar. She has been nominated for 2 movie Golden Globes®. She won for Monster’s Ball and was nominated for Frankie and Alice (2011).
4. Halle Berry has been married three times. She was married to baseball player David Justice from 1993-1997. She was married to singer Eric Benét from 2001-2005. She is currently married to actor Oliver Martinez (2013-). She has two children.
5. Halle Berry and superhero roles. Halle Berry has played Storm in 4 X-Men movies. All have been very successful with critics, audiences and movie theater owners. On the other end of the spectrum….is Halle Berry’s role in Catwoman (2004). Berry won a Razzie® for worst actress in one of the worst superhero movies ever made.
6. Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman have appeared in 6 movies together. Their 4 X-Men movies, Movie 43, and Swordfish.
7. Roles Halle Berry turned down or was seriously considered for: Sandra Bullock part in Speed, Angelina Jolie role in Wanted, Jennifer Lopez role in Gigli, Lucy Liu role in Charlie’s Angels and Angela Bassett role in What’s Love Got To Do With It.
8. Check out Halle Berry‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Halle Berry You Tube Video
This page was a request from my wife. I want to take a minute to give my wife some kudos. I have been writing these movie pages for over 4 years now. When I first started doing these pages I would sit at my desk and manually calculate Cogerson Movie Score for every single movie on the page. After the wife observed me doing this for the first few pages…she decided to create an Access database that would allow me to produce these pages quicker and more accurately.
Over the years she has helped me enter the data into the database….I remember when we were entering the stats on our Michael Caine page….at one point she looked at me and said….”How many damn movies does this guy have?”….the answer over 100.
She has been the force behind making our website better. The computer program she created for my movies database is simply awesome. There is no way I would still be doing these pages if I was still using pencils, calculators, fingers and toes to calculate the Ultimate Movie Score. So I want to thank my wife for being so supportive, smart and one helluva computer programmer…..you are the best!
If you do a comment….please ignore the email address and website section.
HI STEVE
I was working almost simultaneously on comments about Bruce’s new Lee Grant page and your Halle Berry video and unfortunately mixed them up to a degree. I apologize for any inconvenience and will now copy to this page Part 2 of my comments to you about Halle.
Added Steve’s Halle video to our UMR page. Our thoughts on her movies and the video.
“Good video. Making it on our Post of the Day at UltimateMovieRankings.com. Hmmmm……seen most of these movies. Off to a good start seen 26 through 21. #21 Perfect Stranger is pretty bad. First miss is #19 Frankie and Alice…but I almost watched it once. Finally one I enjoyed….#15 Swordfish is a guilty pleasure #14 Die Another Day might be the worst Bond movie. 2nd miss and 3rd miss….have not seen #13 or #12. Strongly disliked #10 Kingsman 2. #9 Executive Decision…good action thriller. #8 The Last Boy Scout is the movie that kept Bruce Willis above water after the bombs Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities. She is good in her many X-Men movies…but far from the star. Have not seen #2 yet….but I will see John Wick 3 one day soon. So that is 22 out of 26 seen. Not too bad. Voted up.”
Bruce, your 22 out of 26 easily beats my 16, Flora has seen 3. I liked Swordfish but I can’t imagine preferring it to Bond. I’m too much of a Bond fan, even the worst in the series has more watchabilty for me than the Oscar-bait dramas that pop up every winter. Thanks again for the comment, vote and share.
HI TEACH
You will see that in my post to Steve a short while ago I have expressed confusion about your crediting Halle with Depp’s Rango. Can you clarify?
Hmmmm…..it appears to be a mistake…..and a mistake that I am currently fixing…as I just hit the first of two buttons that update the database and the website. good catch.
HI BRUCE Glad you sorted out Rango. You had me worried for a while because whilst I saw that movie I often forget which actors are involved with those voice-only films given that they never actually appear on the screen. I thought that maybe you had unearthed a Berry cameo that everyone else had either overlooked or ignored, in the way that you credited Dem’s Doormat with a subliminal cut in Split.
Boy it sure backfired on me when I was indirectly trying to pull your leg in my Halle post about you never “giving grosses away”. I think that for me it’s called being hoisted on one’s own petard.
I still don’t take back my implication that you are a ‘grosses miser’ though. In my own database I usually round figures so that for example $21.8 million becomes $22 million. That way The Great Mumbler has an extra $16 million added to his total Cogerson gross over 38 movies; and The Duke gets an additional $60 mil over his Cogerson-listed 94 films.
It all evens out in the end to a great extent because, whilst Mr M and The Duke earned their grosses the hard way, I round DOWN where I think that is appropriate. For example The Thin Woman is about $40 million short of her Cogerson gross in my database -ie she has lost $40 million of the money that Clark Gable, William Powell and Asta earned for her.
I hope you have a good weekend – take care.
It took awhile….but Rango is no longer on her page. As for being a gross miser…..I can blame the database…..I have nothing to do with the rounding. As for Loy and your rounding down…don’t worry….she made so much at the box office that she can easily spare $40 million….and still be the leader….and by a large margin…lol.
COGERSON 29 JUN 1.34pm
“As for Loy and your rounding down…don’t worry….she made so much at the box office that she can easily spare $40 million….and still be the leader….and by a large margin…lol.”
WILLIAM POWELL
“Glad you think so, brother. But hey fella that’s largely MY money that you are so cavalier about Mr Roy squandering. I was the breadwinner in the Charles household.
Halle Berry is the only woman of African American descent to win the Oscar [which she did for the 2001’sMonster’s Ball]. Following that, there were apparent attempts to consolidate her as a box office star by casting her as Catwoman in 2004. However it bombed badly and against a $100 million budget, grossed worldwide just around $90 million in actual figures, only about half of which or less would have been returned to the producers by way of rentals.
The stats table above illustrates that following Catwoman, Halle was in seven films that attracted worldwide grosses ranging from healthy to mega. However a close examination of the movies concerned reveals that in none of them could she be said to have been the out and out lead, occupying instead secondary or lesser roles or simply being part of a much wider ensemble [X Men 2014, Kingsman, John Wick 3 for example]. NOTE I can find no trace of her being involved in Depp’s Rango and no other site credits her with that movie.
Conversely movies in which she IS the top billed lead fared badly at the box office – The Call, Kidnap and Perfect Stranger for example averaging an adjusted miserable $40 million each in the US, despite the presence in the last named of Bruce Willis who used to be box office gold even on his own.
The stats tables above therefore in my opinion accurately reflect Halle’s box office worth if interpreted properly. The Work Horse may flatter the significance of an artist’s grosses [The Thin Woman for example benefiting from box office hyperbole for some time now] but he does not GIVE AWAY grosses. Indeed every cent is a prisoner – no rounding up on Cogerson!
Part 2 tomorrow.
In my previous post I referred to Halle as the only African American woman to win the Oscar. I meant of course for BEST Actress. Several others have won supporting actress Oscars. Apologies.
Ah…. I see you fixed your issue in the first comment….just read that here. You never see me make mistakes like that….lol.
“When I’m wrong I SAY I’m wrong!”
Got it.
Hey Bob…..that would be the first African American actress to win a Best Actress Oscar……more African American actress have won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar…..from Hattie McDaniel in Gone With The Wind in 1939 to Regina King in last year’s If Beale Street Could Talk. As for Rango….the database is currently working it’s way to fix that issue. I agree with your breakdown of her career as a supporting thespian and the lead thespian….her solo career is not nearly as impressive. Good stuff.
Reading Bride of Cogerson’s comment made me lose count of Halle’s films, I will start again 1.. 2.. 3.. 🙂
I’ve seen 14 of the 32 films you’ve listed. Favorite Halle Berry role is probably Jinx in the Bond film. She looked a little lost in the X-Men movies, too many heroes and villains. Favorite X-men movie? The second one was near perfect and I also liked the new one. Whoa was The Flintstones that popular? I’ve only watched it maybe twice. I’ve never seen Monster’s Ball, reading about it put me off, too depressing. Good work as always Bruce, keep em coming.
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out my latest page. Sorry the wife made you lose your count. My count is at 22. Yep The Flintstones were that popular….I am still confused why nobody returned for the sequel….there is a saying in Hollywood that says there is no better money for actors than sequel money. Monster’s Ball is depressing but well done….a Heath Ledger movie that not many people talk about….but he plays Billy Bob’s son in this one. As always…thanks for the visit and the comment.