Shelley Winters Movies

winters 11111Want to know the best Shelley Winters movies?  How about the worst Shelley Winters movies?  Curious about Shelley Winters box office grosses or which Shelley Winters movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Shelley Winters movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Shelley Winters (1920-2006) was a two-time Oscar® winning American actress. Her acting career span over six decades and included movies, theater and television.  Shelley Winters’s IMDb page shows 162 acting credits from 1943-1999. This page will rank 60 Shelley Winters movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters and movies that did not reach at least $1 million in box office rentals 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.

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

Shelley Winters 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 Shelley Winters movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Shelley Winters movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Shelley Winters movies by domestic yearly box office rank
  • Sort Shelley Winters 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 Shelley Winters movie received.
  • Sort Shelley Winters 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
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Shelley Winters in 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure

Possibly Interesting Facts About Shelley Winters

1. Shirley Schrift was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920.

2. When Shirley Schrift reached Broadway in 1941….she picked the name Shelley Winter (her mother’s maiden name) as her stage name.  Later she added the final “s”.

3.  Shelley Winters early acting training was under the tutelage of actor Charles Laughton.  Laughton would eventually direct Winters in 1955’s The Night Of The Hunter.

4.  Shelley Winters was nominated for 4 Oscars®.  She won Best Supporting Actress for 1959’s Diary of Anne Frank and 1965’s A Patch of Blue.  Her other nominations were for The Poseidon Adventure and A Place In The Sun.

5.  Along with Dianne Wiest, Shelley Winters is one of only two actresses to have won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress on two occasions: Winters won for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue and Wiest won for 1986’s Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994’s Bullets Over Broadway.

6.  Shelley Winters donated her Oscar® for 1959’s The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank museum.

7.  Shelley Winters character was murdered in some of her most famous roles: Montgomery Clift killed her in 1951’s A Place in the Sun, Robert Mitchum killed her in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, James Mason killed her in 1962’s Lolita , Ronald Colman killed her in 1947’s A Double Life and Nazis got her in 1959’s The Diary of Anne Frank.  She dies of a heart attack in 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure.

8.  Shelley Winters has been married four times.  She had one child.

9.  Shelley Winters’s cumulative movie totals:  Adjusted domestic box office:  $3.59 billion.  Her movies received 53 Oscar® nominations….winning 13 times.

10.  Quick facts:  Winters was Laura Dern’s godmother.  Winters and Frank Sinatra fought bitterly while making 1951’s Meet Danny Wilson. Winters and Marilyn Monroe were roommates when they both started their movie careers.  Her Hollywood Star is located at 1752 Vine Street.

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

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