Want to know the best Sally Field movies? How about the worst Sally Field movies? Curious about Sally Field box office grosses or which Sally Field movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Sally Field movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Sally Field (1946-) is a-2 time Oscar® winning American actress and director. Field began her career in television, starring on the sitcoms Gidget (1965–66) and The Flying Nun (1967–70). In the late 1970s she co-starred in 4 very popular Burt Reynolds’ movies. By 1984 she had two Oscar® winning performances on her resume. Over the last 30 years she has been appearing in movies and television shows. Fields’ IMDb page shows 63 acting credits from 1962-2016. This page will rank 32 Sally Field movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows 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.
Drivel part of the page: Over the last couple of weeks…we had been working on a Top 50 Stars 1950-2010 page. Sally Field was one of the actresses we picked for our list. We had a UMR movie page on 20 of the 25 actresses….so now we are doing pages on the 5 missing actresses. Earlier we did a Diane Keaton page….now we have a Sally Field page….which means Faye Dunaway, Julie Christie & Anne Bancroft will be coming in the future.
Sally Field 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 Sally Field movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Sally Field movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Sally Field movies by domestic yearly box office rank or trivia
- Sort Sally Field 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 Sally Field movie received.
- Sort Sally Field movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Sally Field Table
- Fourteen Sally Field movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 42.42% of her movies listed. Forrest Gump (1994) is her biggest box office hit.
- An average Sally Field movie grosses $132.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 17 of Sally Field’s movies are rated as good movies…or 51.51% of her movies. Lincoln (2012) is her highest rated movie while Say It Isn’t So (2001) is her lowest rated movie.
- Eleven Sally Field movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 33.33% of her movies.
- Five Sally Field movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 15.15% of her movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 18 Sally Field movie scored higher that average….or 54.54% of her movies. Lincoln (2012) got the the highest UMR Score while Say It Isn’t So (2001) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Sally Field
1. Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California in 1946.
2. Sally Field has been nominated for 3 Oscars® and 8 Golden Globes® (movies only). She won both awards for her roles in 1979’s Norma Rae and 1984s Places In The Heart.
3. Sally Field has worked with Burt Reynolds on 4 movies. Those four movies have a domestic adjusted box office gross of $1.13 BILLION. That is one of the best screen duos of all-time.
4. Sally Field has starred in 4 movies that were nominated for a Best Picture Oscar®: 1979’s Norma Rae, 1984s Places In The Heart, 1994’s Forrest Gump and 2012’s Lincoln. Forrest Gump won.
5. While filming the scene in 1979’s Norma Rae where Sally Field is dragged out to the police car, she struggled and kicked so hard that she broke the rib of one of the men playing a police officer.
6. Sally Field has been married two times. She has three children. Although Burt Reynolds and Field never got married….Reynolds has said Sally Field is a somebody he should have maried.
7. Sally Field’s cumulative totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $4.36 billion. Her movies received 46 Oscar® nominations….winning 13 Oscars®.
8. Roles Sally Field was strongly considered for or ones she turned down: 1980’s Friday The 13th, Geena Davis role in Thelma and Louise, Meryl Streep role in Sophie’s Choice, Cher role in Moonstruck, Katharine Ross role in The Graduate and Geena Davis role in The Fly.
9. Sally Field has three films on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: 1984’s Places in the Heart at #95, 1994’s Forrest Gump at #37, and 1979’s Norma Rae at #16.
10. In 1988, Sally Field survived the crash of her private airplane with no injuries. The plane lost power on take-off and skidded into some parked airplanes on the tarmac.
Check out Sally Field‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Check out Steve Lensman’s Sally Field You Tube Video
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Hey Steve Actionman….enjoyable comment to read…..though when I think of loud action movies…..Sally Field is the first name I think of…Sally, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn and Meryl Streep….you know the Mount Rushmore of Action Movie Stars…lol.
Steve Actionman
August 9, 2018 at 7:23 am
p.s. Sally Fields movie page was probably not the best place to discuss noisy action movies. ?
HI O CREATION OF SPECIAL EFFECTS
I find that continuing on a separate page a discussion that begins elsewhere can often cause confusion and/or a loss of the thread of the conversation unless we engage in duplication
Action hero moves were mentioned within the context of our exchanges about Sally’s video so I didn’t wish to spread my comments beyond Sally’s page.
I have no inclination to open up a wider discussion What would be the point? If you have a serious pain that won’t go away swapping experiences with others who may or may not have the same pain won’t make your own disappear.
In short please accept that I speak just for just myself . It would be condescending of me to suggest that my own opinions were definitive and presumptuous of me to argue that my own experiences were shared or should be shared by others.
HI STEVE “Made it Ma!” Up to date at last!
In an interview that I saw Sally Field seemed to think that when her name came up audiences mostly thought of Forrest Gump’s mother. If that is so I feel that it is in a way sad because fine film though Gump is hers is a supporting role in it and I think that filmgoers should be first admiring her Oscar winning performances in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart and the other key roles that she played in her career.
Sally made several films with Burt Reynolds which I wasn’t interested in and never saw [including those in my opinion dreadful Smokey ones] and my own fave Field performance was with Newman in 1981’s Absence of Malice.
I also liked her in the more obscure thriller Eye for an Eye which The Work Horse awards a 52% rating but you give a reasonable 62% in line with IMDB’s 61%. I think that she is wasted albeit lucratively as Spiderman’s Aunt May Parker though as she is now in her seventies and remembering W o C’s Curse of 39 Sally herself may be well have been pleased with being given that role.
BEST POSTERS in your video are for me Back Roads, Homeward Bound 1 & 2, Surrender showcasing also Sir Michael Caine [one idol that both the Work Horse and I DO share] the foreign Language ones for Smokey 1 & 2, Not Without my Daughter, Eye for an Eye [representing as it does a fave of mine] both the highly iconic and colourful Spiderman ones, Murphy’s Romance [I always like posters that include Jim Garner] and The Way West with Kirk, Big Bob and my Richard.
In the 1950s Burt Lancaster originally intended to produce the latter film using his own company and starring in the 3 main roles himself, my Jimmy Stewart and Kirk but Burt’s plans fell through.
Superb STILLS are I think opening cheery one of young Sally, all of the multiple ones of Sally with Burt Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Hanks, her with separately Garner and Newman, Sally with Mrs Doubtfire and 007[in the movie I used to confuse with Dustin’s Tootsie] the closing one from Lincoln and most iconically as Norma Rae.
Your selections do I think support my contention that the value Sally’s prolific career in general puts her outing as Forrest’s mother rather in the shade and I therefore consider a solid 97.5% rating of your video easily justified.
You and the Big Boy agree on 4 of Sally’s Top 5 best reviewed movies with him going for Murphy’s Romance and you picking Steel Magnolias in your respective 5s
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Sally Field video, appreciate the info, trivia and comparison. Glad you liked the picture gallery.
I thought it was time to start a run of videos on the older, still working, modern actresses. I have about 10 more lined up over the next few weeks. One of them a multi-Oscar winner, you know who.
I saw the first Smokey and the Bandit at the cinema in 1977 and really enjoyed it, you’re more into drama and I’m more of an action movie guy.
I didn’t see Norma Rae but I do remember renting Places in the Heart on video and liking it. As you know she won Oscars for those two films. I bet Burt was surprised ‘Gidget’ was suddenly a respected award winning actress, while he was still making silly films, it must have affected their relationship.
None of Sally Field’s movies scored 10 out of 10 from my sources, but there is a 9 for Lincoln. Forrest Gump came close with 8.8 from IMDB. Nine more scored 8 out of 10 including Places in the Heart and Norma Rae.
Forrest Gump was tops at IMDB and Lincoln was no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes. Bruce and I have the same no.1 – Lincoln but he has Places of the Heart at no.2 and I have Forrest Gump.
Sally on Burt Reynolds – “What I look for mostly in a man is humor, honesty and a mustache. Burt has all three.”
Sally on the death of James Garner – “My heart just broke. There are few people on this planet I have adored as much as Jimmy Garner. I cherish every moment I spent with him and relive them over and over in my head. He was a diamond.”
HI STEVE
Appreciate the comprehensive feedback and as usual the quotes are very welcome.
Although I was not a great fan of his movies I agree with Sally’s assessment of Burt Reynolds’ off-screen persona. Marlon did NOT however, claiming that Burt exploited children for career purposes and vetoing him for the Caan role in The Godfather and insulting Burt in public every opportunity so that it nearly came to fisticuffs between them
I also agree with Sally of course about Jim Garner who was one of my all-time fave TV stars in Maverick and Rockford and was also relaxing to watch on the screen as well. One of my fave Garner roles was in the 1989 TV movie My Name is Bill W about the founders of Alcoholics Anon. Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob [as he was known] played by James Woods and Garner respecively.
HI STEVE
NOISY ACTION/ADVENTURE MOVIES PART ONE
It occurred to me that I should maybe pick you up on a remark you made in your last post about my not liking action movies.
Nowadays that’s probably true but I do like action movies that have a decent story to them with good human interest and contain reasonable acting.That’s shorthand for I can’t stand Jason Statham.
However my main gripe with modern action films is that having big budgets and the benefit of sensational special effects they often tend to be exceptionally noisy and repetitive.
A case in point is provided by a Bruce Willis double bill that I was watching a fortnight ago, Armageddon and the 6th Sense. The Work Horse [my real-life action hero!] and I share Sir Maurice as an idol and also Willis – but only to some extent in the case of the latter.
I think Wills is the best actor among the screen action heroes and some of his films have good stories in them. He was also big box office in his heyday and I have often said in this site how it mystifies me that he didn’t make WH’s Top 25 males 1950-2010
However whilst I again thoroughly enjoyed 6th Sense despite knowing the ending I had to turn Armageddon off. It seemed to me to be just an exceptionally noisy and repetitive parade of explosions and special effects with Willis and others screaming at each other non-stop to be heard above the din. As my father used to say “Those guys would give an aspirin a headache!”
Continued in Part 2———–
NOISY ACTION/ADVENTURE FILMS PART TWO
HI AGAIN STEVE In my perception the general public eventually caught out Reynolds and the Smokey films. The first Smokey has an adjusted Cogerson domestic gross $510 million, the 2nd $230 million and the 3rd and final one just $17 million.
Burt’s own career as a star mirrored that collapse because around the same time it disappeared overnight.
The Great Mumbler seemed to have a pathological hatred of Burt and indeed years ago publicly released a short video [that I saw a few months ago] in which Marlon “outed” Reynolds as a actor who “professionally exploited children to further his own career.”
When Mr M was asked by an interviewer why he had used his influence with Coppola to deny Burt the Caan part in Godpop he contented himself with saying just that a Reynolds/Brando chemistry wouldn’t have worked.
However maybe Marlon thought that Sonny Corelone was an erratic enough character without having him drive around smashing up cars reel after reel!
Possibly my normal aversion to noisy action movies is an “age” thing – as one gets into one’s 60s/70s there is only so much assault the senses can withstand
If so then even the Work horse will some day grow old and will perhaps realise what a pain in the ear [and a**!] Armageddon is and may at last begin to appreciate Wills the actor and [who knows] ole WH could even allow his namesake into a 25 Greats list.
But you know as I was pulling the plug on Armageddon a realization suddenly hit me and I thought “Perhaps the reason that ole Stevie has trouble in hearing what the customarily soft-spoken Mr M is saying is that Steve’s hearing has been impaired by the pounding it has taken by watching all of these action films .”
Anyway back to business and I’ll be in touch with you next about someone who has no pretentions about being an action hero and could in fact be called a “Big Sissy”!
Hi Bob, interesting comments on why you find noisy action movies too noisy, it is possibly an age thing.
I grew up when action films were really taking off at the cinema – car chases, explosions, James Bond, the end of the world etc.
In your movie-going days westerns and swashbucklers were your ‘action movies’. I remember you mentioning that war movies weren’t your thing. So maybe even back then you didn’t like movies that were too noisy.
My dad enjoyed action movies too, Rambo, Commando, Predator, Robocop – the more action the better. He eventually went a bit deaf. Not sure if it was because of all that noisy action or old age.
p.s. Sally Fields movie page was probably not the best place to discuss noisy action movies. 😉