Johnny Depp Movies

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

Johnny Depp started out his movie career playing secondary parts in movies like and Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon. He then turned to television where he gained notoriety when he played Officer Tom Hanson on the television series 21 Jump Street from 1987 to 1990.  He left the series for a return to the big screen. In 1990 he had two movies released….John Water’s Cry Baby and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. Scissorhands was the first of many collaborations between Tim Burton and Depp. For the next 15 years Depp, built a solid reputation for making quality movies with limited box office.  That all changed when Depp took on the part of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Pirates was a monster hit and turned Depp into one of the biggest movie stars making movies today.

His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1984. This page will rank Johnny Depp movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

Johnny Depp in 1990's Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp in 1990’s Edward Scissorhands

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

Johnny Depp 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 Johnny Depp movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Johnny Depp movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Johnny Depp movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Johnny Depp 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 Johnny Depp movie received.
  • Sort Johnny Depp 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.
Johnny Depp in 2007's Sweeney Todd
Johnny Depp in 2007’s Sweeney Todd

Possibly Interesting Facts About Johnny Depp

1. Johnny Depp has been nominated three times for an Oscar® for Best Actor…those roles were in the following movies…2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2004’s Finding Neverland and 2007’s Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

2. Johnny Depp has received 10 Golden Globe® nominations. He won the Golden Globe for Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

3. Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton have made 8 movies together. The first was 1990’s Edward Scissorhands and the last one comes out next year and is called Dark Shadows.

4. Johnny Depp was married to Lori Anne Allison from 1983 to 1985. Depp had two children with French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis….a boy named Jack and a girl named Lily-Rose.

5. Johnny Depp became great friends with the writer Hunter S. Thompson after playing Hunter in 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 13 years later he would play Hunter again in the 2011 movie The Rum Diary.

6. Speaking of Hunter S. Thompson one of Johnny Depp’s greatest regrets deals with Thompson. One day Depp found an message on his answering machine…it was from Hunter S. Thompson..and it started to ramble on and on so Depp, without listening to the whole message hit save and went to the next message…a couple days later he heard Hunter S. Thompson killed himself…he went back to the answering machine, wanting to hear the message but the message was gone…Depp says he thinks daily about that message and how it ended.

7. After working with Marlon Brando in 1995’s Don Juan DeMarco, Depp decided to follow Brando’s advice and buy an island. The island he bough has 6 beaches and Depp named them after important people in his live. The beach names are Gonzo(Hunter S. Thompson’s nickname), Paradis, Lily-Rose and Jack(his immediate family) and Brando. Makes you wonder what the 6th name is on that island.

8. Not an interesting fact but check out this fun fan letter from fellow movie lover Sunshine625 to Johnny Depp……Sunshine625 sends Johnny Depp a fan letter

Check out Johnny Depp‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Steve Lensman’s Johnny Depp You Tube Video

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67 thoughts on “Johnny Depp Movies”

  1. Your so called Movie Scores do not make alot of sense, you need better directions for me to understand. That being said, it looks like your list is pretty accurate

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    1. Hey Timothy….in a nutshell for a movie to score high it needs……solid box office dollars, critical love, audience love, Oscar nominations and wins…Golden Globe noms and wins…. roughly 33% for box office, 33% for critics and audiences, 20% for awards and 17% for Top 5 weeks Top 10 weeks, #1 weeks, add them up…and you have movie score….hope that helps

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  2. Johnny Depp is getting better with age, I am going to see rango this weeken, glad to see everybody loves that movie.

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    1. Hey Pamela…well if you love Pirates, get ready for the 2nd trilogy…because they start this summer

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  4. Interesting list. I love Johnny Depp movies especially Edward Scissorhands and Gilbert Grape. He is a very versatile actor and I’d like to see him drop the Pirate, a bit too much of that character for me.

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    1. I agree Dolores….I think Pirates ran out of steam after the 2nd film…..but I think you can look forward to three more Pirate movies….the first one comes out this summer….and then they want to make two more…..after they get through counting all the movie this summer….I love What’s Eating Gilbert Grape too

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  5. Hey there. Cool list. I was reading the other day and saw he makes 235,000 an hour. That is crazy. Your a good writer. I have been to Fredericksburgh before. I live in WV. Glad to follow you neighbor

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