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Jennifer Garner (1972-) is an American actress. Garner first gained recognition for her role on the television show Alias. Since that show ended she has appeared in a wide variety of movies. Her IMDb page shows over 60 acting credits since 1995. This page will rank Jennifer Garner movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles 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.
Jennifer Garner 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 |
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| 2007 | Juno (2007) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 2002 | Catch Me if You Can (2002) | |
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| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |  |
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| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 2001 | Pearl Harbor (2001) | |
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| 2003 | Daredevil (2003) | |
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| 2018 | Love, Simon (2018) | |
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| 2004 | 13 Going on 30 (2004) |  |
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| 2014 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) | |
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| 2007 | The Kingdom (2007) | |
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| 2016 | Miracles From Heaven (2016) | |
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| 2010 | Valentine's Day (2010) |  |
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| 1997 | Deconstructing Harry (1997) | |
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| 2014 | Draft Day (2014) | |
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| 2015 | Danny Collins (2015) | |
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| 2000 | Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | |
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| 2018 | Peppermint (2018) | |
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| 2022 | The Adam Project (2022) Netflix |
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| 2012 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) | |
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| 2009 | The Invention of Lying (2009) | |
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| 1997 | Washington Square (1997) |  |
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| 2016 | Wakefield (2016) | |
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| 2019 | Wonder Park (2019) Voice Only |
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| 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | |
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| 2006 | Catch and Release (2006) |  |
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| 2017 | The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017) | |
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| 2021 | Yes Day (2021) Netflix |
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| 1997 | Mr. Magoo (1997) |  |
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| 2011 | Arthur (2011) | |
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| 2001 | Rennie's Landing (2001) | |
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| 2016 | Mother's Day (2016) | |
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| 2017 | A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017) |  |
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| 2014 | Men, Women & Children (2014) | |
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| 2011 | Butter (2011) | |
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| 2023 | Family Switch (2023) Netflix |
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| 2005 | Elektra (2005) | |
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| 2016 | Nine Lives (2016) | |
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| 1997 | 1999 (1997) | |
Jennifer Garner 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 Jennifer Garner movies by her co-stars
- Sort Jennifer Garner movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jennifer Garner movies by yearly domestic box office rank.
- Sort Jennifer Garner 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 Jennifer Garner movie received.
- Sort Jennifer Garner movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Juno (2007) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ellen Page & Jason Bateman |
143.50 | 224.8 | 362.60 | 14 | 81 | 04 / 01 | 99.0 | |
| 2 | Catch Me if You Can (2002) | Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hanks |
164.60 | 306.0 | 654.40 | 11 | 86 | 02 / 00 | 98.5 | |
| 3 | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) | Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman |
636.70 | 636.7 | 1,337.80 | 2 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 97.2 | NP |
| 3 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013) AA Best Picture Nom |
Matthew McConaughey & Jared Leto |
27.30 | 36.2 | 73.20 | 95 | 87 | 06 / 03 | 89.1 | |
| 4 | Pearl Harbor (2001) | Ben Affleck & Kate Beckinsale |
198.50 | 378.8 | 857.10 | 7 | 44 | 04 / 01 | 88.4 | |
| 5 | Daredevil (2003) | Ben Affleck & Colin Farrell |
102.50 | 183.3 | 320.30 | 27 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 86.7 | |
| 6 | Love, Simon (2018) | Nick Robinson & Josh Duhamel |
40.80 | 48.3 | 70.40 | 73 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 83.2 | |
| 7 | 13 Going on 30 (2004) | Mark Ruffalo | 57.20 | 99.3 | 167.40 | 56 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 79.5 | |
| 8 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) | Steve Carell | 67.00 | 88.3 | 133.80 | 51 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 78.3 | |
| 9 | The Kingdom (2007) | Jamie Foxx & Chris Cooper |
47.50 | 74.5 | 135.80 | 58 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 76.9 | |
| 10 | Miracles From Heaven (2016) | Kylie Rogers | 61.70 | 76.9 | 92.10 | 53 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 70.6 | |
| 11 | Valentine's Day (2010) | Bradley Cooper & Anne Hathaway |
110.50 | 151.0 | 295.80 | 24 | 32 | 00 / 00 | 68.2 | |
| 12 | Deconstructing Harry (1997) | Robin Williams & Directed by Woody Allen |
10.70 | 25.1 | 30.70 | 113 | 71 | 01 / 00 | 66.2 | |
| 13 | Draft Day (2014) | Kevin Costner & Denis Leary |
28.80 | 38.1 | 38.90 | 100 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 64.3 | |
| 14 | Danny Collins (2015) | Al Pacino & Annette Bening |
5.60 | 7.2 | 13.90 | 138 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 59.6 | |
| 15 | Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott |
46.70 | 93.5 | 146.40 | 52 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 57.9 | |
| 16 | Peppermint (2018) | John Ortiz | 35.40 | 41.9 | 55.00 | 78 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 57.2 | |
| 17 | The Adam Project (2022) Netflix |
Ryan Reynolds | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 290 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 56.2 | |
| 18 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) | Joel Edgerton | 51.90 | 70.2 | 70.20 | 64 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 55.7 | |
| 19 | The Invention of Lying (2009) | Philip Seymour Hoffman & Jonah Hill |
18.50 | 26.5 | 47.00 | 110 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 54.3 | |
| 20 | Washington Square (1997) | Maggie Smith & Albert Finney |
1.90 | 4.3 | 4.30 | 178 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 46.9 | |
| 21 | Wakefield (2016) | Bryan Cranston | 0.30 | 0.3 | 0.30 | 226 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 46.4 | |
| 22 | Wonder Park (2019) Voice Only |
Mila Kunis & Computer Animated Movies |
45.20 | 53.2 | 133.10 | 60 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 43.1 | |
| 23 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | Matthew McConaughey & Michael Douglas |
55.30 | 79.4 | 146.90 | 56 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 43.0 | |
| 24 | Catch and Release (2006) | Timothy Olyphant | 15.50 | 25.5 | 31.50 | 131 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 29.9 | |
| 25 | The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017) | Justin Kirk | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 298 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 21.3 | |
| 26 | Yes Day (2021) Netflix |
Edgar Ramírez | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 229 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 20.6 | |
| 27 | Mr. Magoo (1997) | Leslie Nielsen & Malcolm McDowell |
21.40 | 50.3 | 68.00 | 86 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 19.2 | |
| 28 | Arthur (2011) | Russell Brand & Helen Mirren |
33.00 | 44.9 | 62.20 | 98 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 17.0 | |
| 29 | Rennie's Landing (2001) | Peter Facinelli | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 299 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 13.6 | |
| 30 | Mother's Day (2016) | Julia Roberts & Directed by Garry Marshall |
32.50 | 40.5 | 60.30 | 88 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 11.0 | |
| 31 | A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017) | Keanu Reeves | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 328 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 10.0 | |
| 32 | Men, Women & Children (2014) | Adam Sandler & Ansel Elgort |
0.70 | 0.9 | 3.00 | 187 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 9.7 | |
| 33 | Butter (2011) | Hugh Jackman & Ty Burrell |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.20 | 239 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.9 | |
| 34 | Family Switch (2023) Netflix |
Ed Helms | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 235 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.8 | |
| 35 | Elektra (2005) | Goran Visnjic | 24.40 | 41.1 | 95.50 | 107 | 32 | 00 / 00 | 7.7 | |
| 36 | Nine Lives (2016) | Kevin Spacey | 19.70 | 24.6 | 72.10 | 114 | 32 | 00 / 00 | 3.8 | |
| 37 | 1999 (1997) | Dan Futterman | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 280 | 37 | 00 / 00 | 2.7 |
Jennifer Garner Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
| Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
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| Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) | S |
| Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) | Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman |
1,337.80 | NP |
| Pearl Harbor (2001) | Ben Affleck & Kate Beckinsale |
857.10 | |
| Catch Me if You Can (2002) | Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hanks |
654.40 | |
| Juno (2007) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ellen Page & Jason Bateman |
362.60 | |
| Daredevil (2003) | Ben Affleck & Colin Farrell |
320.30 | |
| Valentine's Day (2010) | Bradley Cooper & Anne Hathaway |
295.80 | |
| 13 Going on 30 (2004) | Mark Ruffalo | 167.40 | |
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | Matthew McConaughey & Michael Douglas |
146.90 | |
| Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott |
146.40 | |
| The Kingdom (2007) | Jamie Foxx & Chris Cooper |
135.80 | |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) | Steve Carell | 133.80 | |
| Wonder Park (2019) Voice Only |
Mila Kunis & Computer Animated Movies |
133.10 | |
| Elektra (2005) | Goran Visnjic | 95.50 | |
| Miracles From Heaven (2016) | Kylie Rogers | 92.10 | |
| Dallas Buyers Club (2013) AA Best Picture Nom |
Matthew McConaughey & Jared Leto |
73.20 | |
| Nine Lives (2016) | Kevin Spacey | 72.10 | |
| Love, Simon (2018) | Nick Robinson & Josh Duhamel |
70.40 | |
| Mr. Magoo (1997) | Leslie Nielsen & Malcolm McDowell |
68.00 | |
| Arthur (2011) | Russell Brand & Helen Mirren |
62.20 | |
| Mother's Day (2016) | Julia Roberts & Directed by Garry Marshall |
60.30 | |
| Peppermint (2018) | John Ortiz | 55.00 | |
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | Philip Seymour Hoffman & Jonah Hill |
47.00 | |
| Draft Day (2014) | Kevin Costner & Denis Leary |
38.90 | |
| Catch and Release (2006) | Timothy Olyphant | 31.50 | |
| Deconstructing Harry (1997) | Robin Williams & Directed by Woody Allen |
30.70 | |
| Danny Collins (2015) | Al Pacino & Annette Bening |
13.90 | |
| Men, Women & Children (2014) | Adam Sandler & Ansel Elgort |
3.00 | |
| Butter (2011) | Hugh Jackman & Ty Burrell |
0.20 |
Best IMDb Trivia On Jennifer Garner
1. Jennifer Anne Garner was born in Houston, Texas in 1972.
2. As a college student, Jennifer Garner did summer stock theater. In addition to performing, Garner helped to sell tickets, build sets, and clean the venues. She was going to attend Yale University to study drama but got an acting job in New York City instead.
3. Jennifer Garner appeared with her ex-husband Ben Affleck in two movies: Pearl Harbor (2001) and Daredevil (2003). This would have been the third, but Affleck’s small scene in Elektra (2005) was deleted from the final film.
4. Early in the filming of Daredevil (2003), while doing a stunt, Jennifer Garner became tangled in the wires that were helping her do a flip; she nearly crashed into a wall from which she had to flip. Ben Affleck, rushed up in his Daredevil costume and grabbed her and pulled her away before she could hit it. She later commented, “It was like he was Superman.”. Affleck would eventually battle Superman in the movies.
5. Jennifer Garner is a co-founder of baby-food line “Once Upon a Farm”, which produces “farm-to-high-chair” quality meals for children.
Check out Jennifer Garner’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
You and the Big Guy agree on 4 of Jen’s top 6 best reviewed movies. And would you believe it he includes Catch Me if You Can as his No 2. He’s certainly going overboard with his Good Guy act on this occasion – though would Hanks being in the flick have something to do with WH making a big deal out of the movie?
In a post that WH sent to me a year or so ago he was weeping bucketloads because Hanks wasn’t getting any Oscar love. Tom is credited with 89 acting awards and 185 noms; and his current net worth is quoted at $350 million or more but maybe The Work Horse feels Tom has not received enough recognition; maybe WH subscribes to the adage that “those who have nothing will get less and those who have everything will get more!” And to think that the Big Guy’s other idol Hirsch wanted to turn poor ole Mumbles into a financial pauper!
BEST STILLS GARNER VIDEO [apart from the Electra stunners]
1/the very first 2
2/Where’s my Car
3/Valentine Day
4/Timothy Green
5/Alexander
6/Daredevil
7/Ghosts Girlfriends Past
8/ Peppermint
9/—-Going on 30
10/Pearl Harbour
11/The Kingdom
12/with Kevin
13/Love Simon
14/Juno
15/Dallas Buyers Club
I rate this video 99% for what I personally got out of it. It is of Steve’s usual high standard; but I added one extra % point because of the video’s novelty value for me as a lot of the material/titles I was unfamiliar with. I loved all of the stunning posters and stills for the Elektra movies so that of course I exceptionally enjoyed more entries than the ones that I quote individually below and in part 3. BEST POSTERS:
1/two for Juno
2/Nine Lives
3/Where’s my Car?
4/Wonder Park
5/Miracles from Heaven
6/Men Women and Children
7/Dallas Buyers Club
8/Danny Collins – great pictorial!
9/Butter
10/two for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
11/two for Peppermint
12/two for —Going on Thirty
13/two for Pearl Harbour
14/Wakefield
15/first one for The Kingdom
Aniston on Monday and Garner today: is The King of Videos doing a “Jen” week? Who’s next – Jen Connelly? My general comments are as follows:
1/The Garner video is a useful learning curve for me as I have seen just one of her movies -Catch Me if You Can – with Hanks/De Caprio and she had just a cameo in that one. You exclude it but the Big Guy bestows on Jen generosity usually reserved for Willis.
2/On top of her big-screen career Wikipedia credits Garner with (1) 20 TV productions from 1995 to 2020 (2) two theatrical plays in 1995 and 1997 the latter one being the famous Cyrano De Bergerac. In the 1995 one A Month in the Country she was an understudy (3) one video game in 2004.
3/IMDB lists for her 12 acting awards and 26 nominations and Celebrity Net Worth site says she has a net worth of $80 million [wow!] according to their bang up-to-date assessment this year.
4/In the pipeline for her are 1 movie at post-production stage and a movie and TV series at pre-production stage. Obviously she intends to continue to keep busy and indeed she is also now appearing as Princess Buttercup in the TV mini-series The Princess Bride. Here is what Wikipedia says about it. Hugh Jackman plays another one of the roles mentioned:
“Home Movie: The Princess Bride is an American fantasy adventure comedy miniseries directed by Jason Reitman, a “fan made” recreation of the 1987 film of the same name. Produced while the participating actors were isolating themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is filmed in a deliberately DIY fashion, with an ensemble cast recording their scenes on their own smartphones and multiple actors playing the most prominent roles. It premiered on June 29, 2020, on Quibi.”
Hi Bob, forgive my tardiness, but better late than never. Thanks as always for the review, generous rating (ooh), info and trivia, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters and stills.
I became a Garner fan after watching The Great Escape aeons ago…
oh wait sorry I meant after watching the TV show Alias back in the 2000’s. She was stunning in that series.
Her recent film ‘Peppermint’ is a better ‘Death Wish’ wannabe than Bruce Willis’ effort (sorry chief), gunmen kill her husband and daughter, and Garner goes berserk.
There are no 10 out of 10s in Garner’s oeuvre. Two films scored 9 – Dallas Buyers Club and Juno. Two films scored 8 – Draft Day and The Kingdom.
Dallas Buyers Club is tops on the IMDB charts and Bruce’s critics chart, and Juno is no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes and my chart (it’s no.4 on Bruce’s critics chart).
If I had included her cameo in Catch Me If You Can it would have been in 3rd place on my video chart.
Jennifer on any potential popularity rivalry with ex-husband Ben Affleck – “I am not expecting Men, Women & Children (2014) taking Gone Girl (2014). But it would feel great some day to spank him at the box-office.”
“I do all my own stunts!”
When they asked Roger Moore if he does his own stunts he replied, “Of course I do my own stunts. I also do my own lying.”
Thanks for the feedback. Brilliant funny quote by Roger Moore it did make me laugh out aloud. The sort of tongue-in-cheek humour that I try to infuse in my own posts but which you and The Big Guy always seem to take seriously. Maybe it’s “the way I tell them” as comedian Frank Carson from over here used to say.
Regarding Catch Me if You Can: as I mentioned in my previous posts WH was furious one year when Tom Hanks was unrecognised by the Oscars awards nominations committee for some more recent film. Bruce apparently felt that even more wealth and accolades should go to the already-mega-rich and probably already over-awarded Thomas.
Tom is a wonderfully entertaining guy and a big box office star and as an actor he is up there with the best. However compared with his kindred spirits in the classic era he is I feel already over-endowed with both wealth and artistic recognition such are apparently the low bench marks for achievement and stardom in today’s entertainment world. How else can one explain someone like Stallone getting even an Oscar nomination?
That seduces fans of popular stars who are in big hits to develop a sense of entitlement on behalf of their own usually hyped-up idols – I admit Brando was enormously hyped in his heyday – which in turn leads to disappointment when their ‘pet’ doesn’t get an award/nom for a good but not exceptional performance in a popular blockbuster.
Hey Bob…good thoughts in your comments. As for the award totals…it is almost impossible to compare today’s massive amounts of awards to the limited awards of yesteryear. Still good totals. As for Catch Me If You Can….I read somewhere that her small role in a Spielberg movie really got her movie career going…so it was included in our rankings. Good stuff as always.
“Cogerson on Jennifer Garner Movies Hey Bob…good thoughts in your comments. As for the award totals…it is almost impossible to compare today’s massive amounts of awards to the limited awards of yesteryear. Still good totals.”
HI O GREATEST OF GREATS: I couldn’t agree more – which makes it all the more surprising to me that you and Steve take the whole awards business so seriously. Parts 2 and 3 contain salutary lessons about excessive idolatry.
I think the problem is a mixture of a proliferation of different awards bodies today against much higher standards yesteryear. Whilst in my opinion the whole thing was still very often a bit of a joke back then the likes of Stallone wouldn’t have even been admitted as a spectator at the Oscar ceremonies let alone receive a nomination; though to be fair even the 1970s Academy Awards judges drew the line at actually giving him one.
Back in the 1980s [I think it was] a list was published of the male actors with the most MAJOR awards. I can’t recall what they defined as “major” back then but nobody on the list was credited with more that 10 awards. The top 4 contained 3 of the “usual suspects” of those days [Olivier/Brando/Tracy] but the 4th man – and who actually topped the list – was surprisingly Peter Finch.
I continue to be surprised that Finch has never received any Cogerson love according to your current index; but then again maybe that’s not surprising: The Master on page 136 of his 1983 book describes Peter as “distant and detached” on screen.
I saw 6 of top 9, including top 4. no favorites. 10 the kingdom. 9s juno, catch me if you can. hidden gem dallas buyers club a 7. a powerfully acted piece of fiction(alleged biography). I downrated it due to medically and historically annoying. best picture Oscar nominated. best actor Oscar winner. best supporting actor Oscar winner. excellent cogerson review on letterboxd. follow this guy! he knows his movies.
Loved her since Alias. I miss that show.
Thank you Taylor….I will have to check out Alias. I am currently watching Orlando Bloom’s Carnival Row….maybe after watching that show I will check out Alias. Thanks for stopping by.