Want to know the best James Woods movies?  How about the worst James Woods movies?  Curious about James Woods box office grosses or which James Woods movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which James Woods movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

James Woods (1947-) is an Oscar® nominated American actor.  Woods’s best-known roles are  Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Casino (1995), Nixon (1995), Contact (1997), and for providing voices in the Hercules (1997), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). His IMDb page shows over 145 acting credits since 1971.  This page will rank James Woods movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, videos, games, 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.

James Woods Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1997	Hercules (1997)
1973	The Way We Were (1973)
1997	Contact (1997)
1995	Casino (1995)
1999	Any Given Sunday (1999)
2002	Stuart Little 2 (2002)
1999	The General's Daughter (1999)
2007	Surf's Up (2007)
1984	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
1984	Against All Odds (1984)
1989	True Believer (1989)
1995	Nixon (1995)
2001	Scary Movie 2 (2001)
2013	White House Down (2013)
2002	John Q (2002)
1974	The Gambler (1974)
1977	The Choirboys (1977)
1995	Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) HBO Movie
1986	Salvador (1986) AA Best Actor Nom
1979	The Onion Field (1979)
1991	The Hard Way (1991)
1975	Night Moves (1975)
2001	Recess: School's Out (2001) Voice Only
1999	The Virgin Suicides (1999)
1981	Eyewitness (1981)
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
2011	Too Big To Fail (2011) HBO Movie
1985	Cat's Eye (1985)
1983	Videodrome (1983)
1996	Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) AA Best Supp Actor Nom
1994	The Specialist (1994)
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
1992	Straight Talk (1992)
1992	Citizen Cohn (1992) HBO Movie
1992	Chaplin (1992)
1999	True Crime (1999)
1982	Fast-Walking (1982)
1972	Hickey & Boggs (1972)
2003	Northfork (2003)
2005	Be Cool (2005)
1987	Best Seller (1987)
1982	Split Image (1982)
1989	Immediate Family (1989)
1985	Joshua Then and Now (1985)
1980	The Black Marble (1980)
1988	Cop (1988)
1998	Another Day in Paradise (1998)
1994	The Getaway (1994)
1992	Diggstown (1992)
1995	Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
1994	Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
1998	Vampires (1998)
2000	Dirty Pictures (2000) Showtime Movies
1976	Alex & The Gypsy (1976)
1988	The Boost (1988)
2005	Pretty Persuasion (2005)
1972	The Visitors (1972)
2013	Officer Down (2013)
2001	Race To Space (2001)
2003	This Girl's Life (2003)
2004	The Easter Egg Adventure (2004) Voice Only
2011	Straw Dogs (2011)
1994	Next Door (1994) Showtime Movies
2006	End Game (2006)
2013	Jobs (2013)
2016	Bling (2016)
1995	For Better or Worse (1995)
1999	Play It to the Bone (1999)
1997	Kicked in the Head (1997)
2008	An American Carol (2008)

James Woods 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 James Woods movies by his co-stars
• Sort James Woods movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort James Woods movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort James Woods movies by 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 James Woods movie received.
• Sort James Woods movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Possibly Interesting Facts On James Woods

1.James Howard Woods was born in Vernal, Utah in 1947.

2. James Woods was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, majoring not in the physical sciences but in political science. He also pursued acting, appearing in 36 plays at MIT, Harvard, and the Theater Company of Boston and also performed in summer stock at the Provincetown Playhouse. He dropped out of MIT during his last year to move to New York and pursue acting full-time.

3. Hades from the Disney franchise, Hercules,  is James Woods’s favorite role and he states that he’ll continue playing the character, whenever needed, until the day he dies because he loves the character so very much.

4. James Woods got his third television role, as Caz in Kojak: Death Is Not a Passing Grade (1974), after Richard Dreyfuss and Martin Sheen had turned it down.

5. James Woods is an avid poker player. He played in the WPT’s Hollywood Home Game series in 2004 for the American Stroke Association charity.  He placed in seventh place at the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the $3000 No-Limit Shootout event and a fifth place in the $1,500 Dealers Choice event at the 2018 WSOP.

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