Want to know the best Sigourney Weaver movies? How about the worst Sigourney Weaver movies? Curious about Sigourney Weaver box office grosses or which Sigourney Weaver movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Sigourney Weaver movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Sigourney Weaver (1949-) is 3 time Oscar® nominated American actress. She has starred in some of the biggest box office hits of all-time: Alien movies, Ghostbusters movies and Avatar movies. She will be appearing in the Avatar movies through the year 2022. Sigourney Weaver’s IMDb page shows 78 acting credits from 1970-2022. This page will rank 51 Sigourney Weaver 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: When looking at our request page we have many more classic stars than current stars. Since we like to alternate between classic pages and current pages…often…..someone will request a current star and days later we will publish the page. That is the case here. A couple of days ago, Dan requested Sigourney Weaver page…and now we have a Weaver page. So Dan, only days later, here is your requested page.
Sigourney Weaver 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 Sigourney Weaver movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Sigourney Weaver movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Sigourney Weaver movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Sigourney Weaver 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 Sigourney Weaver movie received.
- Sort Sigourney Weaver 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 Sigourney Weaver Table
- Twelve Sigourney Weaver movie crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 24.00% of her movies listed. Avatar (2009) is her biggest box office hit.
- An average Sigourney Weaver movie grosses $90.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 31 of Sigourney Weaver’s movies are rated as good movies…or 62.00% of her movies. Aliens (1986) is her highest rated movie while Abduction (2011) is her lowest rated movie.
- Ten Sigourney Weaver movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 20.00% of her movies.
- Six Sigourney Weaver movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 12.00% of her movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 20 Sigourney Weaver movie scored higher that average….or 33.33% of her movies. Aliens (1986) got the the highest UMR Score while Abduction (2011) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Sigourney Weaver
1. Susan Alexandra Weaver was born in Manhattan, New York in 1949. She changed her first name after reading The Great Gatsby.
2. Sigourney Weaver’s father, Sylvester, was a NBC television executive while her mother, Elizabeth Inglis was an actress.
3. Sigourney Weaver’s film debut was a bit part in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
4. Sigourney Weaver has been nominated for 3 Oscars®. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1988’s Working Girl and for Best Actress in 1986’s Aliens and 1988’s Gorillas In The Mist.
5. Sigourney Weaver is one of the elite eleven thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett.
6. Sigourney Weaver has been nominated for 5 movie acting Golden Globes®…winning once: 1988’s Gorillas In The Mist.
7. Sigourney Weaver has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: 1977’s Annie Halll, 1988’s Working Girl and 2009’s Avatar.
8. Sigourney Weaver has been married one time and has one child.
9. Sigourney Weaver’s cumulative totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $4.51 billion. Her movies received 40 Oscar® nominations…..winning 9 Oscars®.
10. Roles Sigourney Weaver was strongly considered for or ones she turned down: Kelly McGillis role in The Accused, Kathleen Turner role in Body Heat, Holly Hunter role in Broadcast News, Laura Dern role in Jurassic Park, Daryl Hannah role in Splash and Brooke Shields role in The Blue Lagoon.
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Love her! She is a great actress she makes every role the best part of a movie. Seen many of these movies the top half or 25 movies. Another winning page.
Hey Stein….thanks for checking in. Glad you have enjoyed her career so far. She is a very talented lady. FYI….I found a great book on one of your requests….Walter Wanger….and joy to the world…the book lists every single box office result for all of his movies but one. So I am thinking that page is three out from being done…..1st Audie Murphy….2nd Unknown Current Star….3rd Wanger….just in case you were curious.
I will have to look up Walter Wanger.
He was a independent producer….who was involved in many good movies…..granted my knowledge of him as only recently been found…lol.
She is in this summer’s remake of Ghostbusters coming out next month also.
Hey Dan….glad to see you found your requested Sigourney Weaver page. Sounds like I will need to keep this page updated all summer long. Plus she has a lot of movies in different stages of production. Her career is still rolling along.
Yes you will Bruce.
Your full time job will interefere with those of us who are addicted to this website.
One of my favorite actresses gets her very own UMR movie page, nice.
Like many people I first saw Sigourney Weaver in Ridley Scott’s fantastic sci-fi-horror Alien (1979), I saw that film at the Odeon Leicester Square in it’s first week of release, and well over 100 times since. The success of that film made her a star and a sci-fi icon.
I’ve seen 30 of the 50 films listed here, favorites include the Alien series particularly the first two, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Avatar, Galaxy Quest, Dave, Wall-E and Gorillas in the Mist.
Top rated films I’ve yet to see include – Finding Dory and Death and the Maiden.
Good to see Aliens topping the critics and UMR chart, one of the few sequels that can match the original.
I’ve missed just 2 of the UMR top 20 – Finding Dory and Baby Mama.
Should have won an Oscar for Gorillas in the Mist.
Excellent work on a great actress Bruce. Voted Up.
Hey Steve….I imagine you are happy with the Top 3….though maybe not the order. I was glad when Aliens topped the UMR chart….as it is one of my favorite movies of all-time. Sam turns 10 in a couple of months…thinking she is ready for it…..though WoC does not agree…..lol.
I was too young to see Alien in theaters….but I kept hearing about it in school….so I got the book….the book scared the hell of me….lol. Alien is along with James Caan’s Thief my brother’s favorite two movies. I have bought him Alien in many many different formats over the years as presents.
Current Tally Standings.
Cogerson from the USA 37
Steve Lensman from The New England 30
Laurent from France 17
Flora from Canada 8
Looks like you will get the first medal for that new country in Europe.
I think she only has two or three lines in Finding Dory….but those lines are repeated throughout the movie….plus the characters in the movie keep referring to Sigourney Weaver…it is actually one of the funnier parts of the movie. Death and the Maiden might be the least known Roman Polanksi movie….I have not seen….but I imagine Polanksi and Weaver together in a movie might be good.
My first UMR miss is number 26 Death and the Maiden….and as I have commented before number 27 Snow Cake is a little known gem of a movie. Somehow I have not seen Gorillas in the Mist….though I had it in my hand the other day…but since it did not look like it had subtitles I put it back…..based on you and Flora’s comments…I should finally check it out.
As always…thanks for the comment and the visit.
I thought I had this one in the bag but was beaten again, drat. Bruce, have you ever counted how many movies in total you’ve seen, must be quite a few thousand.
The top 5 on Siggy’s UMR chart are all favorites of mine, is that a first? 🙂
I’m not that crazy about Thief, I haven’t watched it in years, but it’s good to know someone in your family loves Alien. What does your brother think about the sequel, Aliens?
Hey Steve….mmmm…I have seen lots of movies…if I had to guess I would say it was close to 15,000 movies. In 2013 I started keeping track again. That year I watched 1,418 movies. Since January 2014 I have watched 2024 movies….all of them reviewed on letterbox.com.
An entire Top 5 Lensman approval…..proud day proud day…..I knew one of these days it would happen.
My brother likes Aliens…..but it does not compare to Alien in his book. If he has watched Alien 100 times….he was watched Aliens 5 times. Thief is a solid movie….with a great Caan performance….but needed a little more action….Michael Mann revisited that subject with Heat starring Pacino and DeNiro.
So if you got your old Maltins movie guide paperback out and circled every movie you’ve seen with a red marker, the book would be full of red circles? Jeez.
I know I’ve seen at least 6,000 movies because I’ve got that many in my collection, about 6,100 at last count.
Yep I think the ink might be dripping out of the book. Back in the 1980s…I kept a red book that listed every movie I saw….I was averaging about 280 movies a year. I put a * by movies I watched in theaters. I find looking at that interesting for example in 1988 I saw 301 movies….this is the list of movies that pulled me into theaters.
Alien Nation
Broadcast News
Bright Lights, Big City
Beetlejuice
Big
Bull Durham
Crocodille Dundee 2
Colors
Die Hard…..no surprise there
Fatal Attraction
Funny Farm
Frantic
Good Morning Vietnam
High Spirits
Johnny Be Good
Moonstruck
Memories of Me
Punchline
Return Of The Living Dead
Red Heat
Shoot To Kill
Shakedown
Scrooged
Three Men And A Baby
They Live
Tequilla Sunrise
Willow
Working Girl
So yes….I still have that redbook…..I find it fun to see the movies I actually got me motivated to go to the theater. I bet you saw many of these same movies at the theater too.
That was 28 movies seen in theaters in 1988…so on the average of less than once every two weeks I was seeing a movie in theaters. Today I go about once a month….and it is generally to watch a Computer Animated Kid movie.
My cinema going was mostly in the 1970’s when I would average 2 films a week or over a hundred a year, many of them films I haven’t seen since. 🙂
We don’t really use the term ‘theater’ to refer to cinema in the UK, I think that’s mostly an American thing. Theater to us is stage plays and musicals.
Looking at my records I saw just 4 films at the cinema in 1988 only one of them from your list – Die Hard, Predator, Robocop and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Btw you’ve got Die Hard 2 listed instead of 1, that was 2 years later.
Thanks Steve….so your movie going hayday was in the 1970s….my cinema going back then was Disney movies pretty much….my grandmother would take a couple times a month to see a movie. I thought Gus was the greatest movie of all time back then. I wonder what my grandmother was thinking as she had to watch a movie about a football kicking mule. I fixed my Die Hard error. Thanks for the tally totals.
p.s Predator and Robocop were out in january 1988 here in the UK. There was always a long delay before a US release arrived in the UK.
ET, Jaws and Star Wars were winter releases in the UK.
Yep both of those movies came out in 1987 here….at first I was like I saw Predator in cinemas…my record keeping skills sucked back then…but now I understand….apologizes to the Cogerson of the past….lol.
My total is the opposite of Laurent. I only mention this as we two are the only comments yet.
Great to see another actress featured.
I have been unable to get through any of the Alien films as yet. They just are not my type of film.
And no, I have not seen an Avatar movie either.
I have seen her in Ghostbusters and Woking Girl, both favourites of mine.
I have seen only 8 of her films, a small total but:
They are all in her top 15 movies, so ‘ve seen the right ones.
My favourite is Gorillas in the Mist.
Hey Flora. Wow this page is only hours old…and you have already been bumped from the podium.
Current Standings.
Cogerson from the USA 37
Steve Lensman from The New England 30
Laurent from France 17
Flora from Canada 8
8 is actually a decent total…especially since ever movie she made was after you were born. I would have guessed your tally would have been 4….so it double the amount I was thinking.
I would highly recommend the little known gem….Snow Cake….I think it is her best performance of her career and sadly nobody has heard of it. Gorillas in the Mist is one of the few Weaver movies that I have not seen….it will have to check it out.
Snow Cake. Great.
I like the idea of The New England as a country name.
And yes, for an actress whose career has been since I was born – 8 is not a bad total. I knew I would not be on the podium.
LOL!
She should have gotten some Oscar buzz for her role in Snow Cake….and Alan Rickman is equally impressive.
Hello Bruce,
My taly count is better than for Robert Montgomery and Chevy Chase : 17 movies. I liked her in Alien saga, Ghostbuster, Working girl and Avatar.
1 I welcomed her in the late 70s/ early 80s because although she was very attractive she didn’t depend on her sex appeal but rather in the Alien films built her persona around that of a female Arnold Schwarzenneger.
2 Still she WAS a woman and because of that some of the language she used in her films shocked me back in those early days.
Hey Bob.
1. I agree with you….though her sex appeal caught my attention when I was a teenager watching Ghostbusters….lol.
2. I can imagine it would. Now her language used in those movies would probably only generate a PG-13 rating.
1 Agreed ! If I recall correctly when they shared a room in It Happened One Night Gable and Colbert had to use separate beds and have a curtain between them . Imagine anyone trying to make Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction back then.
2 Different worlds!: In the 30s and 40s even when sitting about their own homes in front of blazing fires the characters were always immaculately dressed, with the men for example in suits and wearing white shirts and ties.
3 Before he died Bing expressed himself disgusted with the morality standards that the censor allows in modern films.
1. Fatal Attraction in the 1930s would be so watered down…and even the PG version would be boycotted by almost every organization out there.
2. Yep IHON had a curtain….that is probably one it’s most famous scenes….it is also the scene that destroyed the white t-shirt industry….as when everybody saw Gable was not wearing a t-shirt under the shirt….they decided to follow the lead. I always imaged the emergency meetings when a company realized that one person in a movie was killing their company.
3. Imagine Bing today. Especially if he stumbled onto a RedBand trailer….those R rated trailers that are out there.
Hey Laurent…..thanks for checking out our latest page. Wow I hit publish right before I went to bed and I wake up and I am one of the last ones to give a tally count.
Current Standings.
Cogerson from the USA 37
Steve Lensman from The New England 30
Laurent from France 17
Flora from Canada 8
So right now you have a medal. I think your favorites are her best movies. The movie that she most impressed me with her acting was the little known Snow Cake with the late great Alan Rickman. She plays a Rain Woman like character…it is one great performance…and I highly recommend it.