James Woods Movies

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.

1986’s Salvador

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.

1984’s Once Upon A Time In America

James Woods Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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1995’s Casino

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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23 thoughts on “James Woods Movies

  1. Cogerson
    March 31, 2020 at 8:36 am

    “A new Steve video…I like it. James Woods has really slowed down these days with regards to appearing in mainstream movies. He is not very popular in Hollywood as his political views are not in line with most of Hollywood…..whether that is good or bad is up to each person to decide. Seen many of movies…of the ones listed here…I have seen 31 of them. Favorites would include #25 Northfolk…little known movie. #16 Cop ..great performance by him here. #15 Best Seller…..saw at same time as Cop….so I find it strange they are ranked so closely. #3 Salvador…he got a surprise Oscar nomination for this Oliver Stone movie. #1 Once Upon A Time In America…the long version is awesome…the version released in theaters was horrible. Voted up and shared.”

    Added Steve’s latest video to the page.

  2. Steve Lensman
    April 1, 2020 at 7:39 am

    Hi Bob, busy day yesterday but better late than never! Thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and quotes, much appreciated.

    Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.

    James Woods is an actor I’ve always enjoyed watching. With rare right-wing views in a profession that is mostly liberal and left-wing. John Wayne probably the most extreme example of an actor with right wing ‘white supremacy’ views. I think Clint Eastwood leans to the right too.

    Anyway back to the world of film, one film scores 10 out of 10 from Wood’s ouevre – Once Upon a Time in America. Two films scored 9 – Casino and Salvador. Several films scored 8.

    OUATIA tops IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes charts. Bruce’s chart too. Bruce and I have the same top two. He has listed Woods top UMR films on his post on this page.

    “So much of what Hollywood does now, I’m sorry to say… they’re busy with the political agenda, socially political agenda, and that’s fine. But the older white heterosexual European male is only the villain in movies. Very rarely are we anything but the villain now.”

    “Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It’s not going to do me any good.”

  3. BOB to STEVE PART 3
    March 31, 2020 at 3:50 am

    CORRECTION: In Part One is listed Scary Movie 2 as a 2002 release whereas it opened in 2001. Apologies.

    After our pleasant and rewarding exchanges about around a dozen of your ‘archives’ productions I welcome you back to the making of fresh videos and I was pleased with your present James Woods one to the tune of a 98% personal satisfaction rating. From my perspective you couldn’t have picked a more nostalgic subject to restart your engine with. I will again steal your “Vote Up!” accolade.

    MY SELECTION OF BEST 15 STILLS – Quantity as well as quality returns !
    1/Straw HORSES
    2/The Specialist – James acting Sly and one-hit Sharon off the screen
    3/Against All Odds
    4/Vampires
    5/White House Down
    6/Ghosts of Mississippi
    7/With Clint-James well into the supporting actor phase of his career.
    8/Diggstown
    9/Cop – Horray for a 3rd time; the very 1st movie in which I ever saw James.
    10/Best Seller – with Brian; two Giants of the video libraries of those days together!
    11/Any Given Sunday
    12/Promise
    13/Casino – supporting the Great Bobby DeN. Woods great as usual and only fly in ointment for me was Pesci whose screen persona I consider very drab.
    14/Closing solo- a morel elderly James looking a bit like Lee Marvin in Point Blank
    15/Eyewitness: Sigourney’s 4th movie and her first one after her big success in the blockbuster hit Alien. She had joined the ranks of the action heroes/heroines who were as tough as John McClane and Martin Riggs and proved that she could swear just as fluently and coarsely as THEM! Even The Alien must have blushed at some of her language!

  4. BOB to STEVE Part 2
    March 31, 2020 at 3:20 am

    TOP 20 POSTER SETS IN YOUR WOODS VIDEO – “The Full Monty” again!

    1/End Game
    2/Eyewitness – 1981/at the start of the William Hurt era;whatever happened to him?
    3/Fast Walker – raunchy! [I think first one ever in which James top-billed – 1982].
    4/Cat’s Eye
    5/Vampires
    6/Against all Odds-liked it 1st time round in your Jane Greer video
    7/White House Down
    8/True Crime – saw it on my visit to the States in 1999. WH and I briefly ‘neighbours’ as I watched it!
    9/Citizen Cohn
    10/Cop – Hoorah!
    11/The Virgin Suicides
    12/The Onion Field
    13/Any Given Sunday
    14/Best Seller
    15Bill W – Hoorah again!
    16/Salvador – his personal masterpiece.
    17/Hero
    18/Contact
    19/Once upon a Time in Manchester
    20/All of ones for Videodrome – Woods’ 2nd top-billed flick [1983] I think
    21/Nixon-Woods perfect as the ruthless and nasty H R Bob Haldeman:

    Haldeman: “Which states have we taken so far?”
    Assistant: “These ones sir.” [Pointing at the wall map] “Florida, Ohio ——-”
    Haldeman [abruptly interrupting]: “I know where they ARE! Just give me the numbers

  5. BOB on James Woods Part One
    March 31, 2020 at 2:58 am

    Now you’re taking me back to my nostalgic video library days of the early 1990s when I first acquired a video player and my favourite video stars were Brain Dennehy [“He NEVER fails to please” the owner of one video store prooudly told me once] and Rutger Hauer [nicknamed “King if the Videos’ back then] and James Woods.

    I loved Woods’ hard boiled image and the four films that I remember him most in from those days were the big screen movie 1988’s Cop and 3 TV movies that had found their way into the video libraries: Badge of the Assassin [1985] My name is Bill W [1989] and the later 1995’s Indictment. In Bill W James played Bill Wilson who along with ‘Doctor Bob’ [played by Jim Garner] co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous.

    I had hoped that Woods’ career would continue to develop upwards but he never made top stardom and settled for supporting roles in films like The Specialist/The Getaway and Clint Eastwood’s True Crime. In 2002 he took over a cameo role from Brando [who fell ill] as a priest who performs an exorcism in Scary Movie 2.

    I last saw James as a baddie in the 2011’s Straw Dogs remake. As well as continuing his big screen career James has been very busy over the past 20 years in TV productions and has appeared in many video games. He has a reported current net worth of $10 million and IMDB credits him overall with 21 acting awards and 39 noms.

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