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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Steve’s Sigourney Weaver You Tube Video
My grandson has become fascinated by the Alien franchise and recently we have watched the entire series together. I asked him how he found the Alien as a monster and he replied that he was more frightening than Kong because the latter was in reality a ”good guy”
He added that he would prefer Jaws or The Meg to “get him” as with sharks it would probably be over quicker and he went on to say that certainly the Alien was more frightening than any of the human villains. Before I could help myself “Son you haven’t come across Joel yet!” popped out
1-20 Best POSTERS for me are Chappie, Paul, Cabin the Woods, Map of the World, Gorillas in the Mist, two crackers for The Year of Living Dangerously, A Monster Calls, foreign language one for the first Alien singular the poster for its first sequel Alien(s), my own personal favourite in the franchise and Death and the Maiden. You are going up in the world! because the latter is strictly art house. I saw it in Belfast’s one art house complex where |I think there were about two other people in the cinema.
STILLS – ENTIRE VIDEO. My pick of the best were opening posed one of Siggy as Ripley, her in Alien 3, the Ghostbusters 2 ensemble, blonde Siggy, a cracker 2nd still for Avatar, Sigourney showing us her legs in Ghostbusters 1, her with furry friend in Gorillas in the Mist, Siggy with kitty in Alien, the Alien(s) ensemble cast with my heroine most iconic among them and Sigourney with in turn Kevin Klein as Dave [my 2nd fave non-Alien movie after Copycat] Mel Gibson, and Bill Murray.
You have brilliantly captured the extent of Weaver’s career, showing that she was much more than the Alien hunter that she is best known for so a well-earned 98% overall according to my notes and scores.
You and the guy who, despite her exceptional height, would cut Siggy down to his size if she started to use that bad language of hers on HIS site agree on 3 of Sigourney’s Top 5 best reviewed Alien, Aliens and Avatar. I see he agrees with me that Alien(s) was the best in the franchise so sorry O noble Prince but I’m going to have to be on the side of the bad guys this time round.
STEVE
Possibly Sigourney as Ellen Ripley was the first modern super-heroine [and definitely was one of them] who could swear more than John McClane, was better to look at than Sly, was more intellectual than Jason Statham and probably could have given Arnie a hiding – certainly the modernised mega strength Ripley reboot of Alien Resurrection most likely could have done that.
Indeed maybe the action heroine qualities were genetic – her dad being named Sylvester!
Anyway Warrant Officer Ripley has been one of my own great screen heroines. How come though Arnie, Sly and Harrison all of whom I once liked simply irritate me nowadays whereas I can watch reruns of the beautiful Ellen’s franchise until the cows come home?
That’s my way of saying that I greatly welcome your extended video of Sigourney who has of course proved that she had a dramatic range that extended well beyond the action genre. She could do comedy too as in Working Girl when she asked Harrison if “somebody” was coming out to play!
Best POSTERS 40-21 for me are Cold Light of Day, both ones for the Sir Maurice flick Half Moon Street, also 2 super ones for Red Lights, Eyewitness [showing that even William Hurt was once young] Heartbreakers, Girl in the Park, The Village [ though I did not like the movie itself] Snow White, 1492 and Copycat – perhaps my own fave Weaver flick after the Alien ones.
I interpreting Sigourney’s opening quote about the efforts to disguise her exceptional height as code for “I wish I’d been around in Laddie’s day so that I could have co-starred with him!”
ALL my fave in your video STILLS covered in Part 2
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and comparison, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters and stills.
Ripley the Alien Slayer has become a sci-fi icon, she was going to make one more in the series but the project was nixed in favor of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus saga (prequels to Alien).
Aliens is a huge favorite of mine and I’ve watched it many times but the original 1979 Alien just edged it off the top spot, it’s a highly respected sci-fi / horror and only the second film by Sir Ridley Scott, after The Duellists. All of Weaver’s top 6 are fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.
I’ll have to give Copycat another go it’s been ages since I last watched it. From what I remember American singer Harry Connick Jr was surprisingly effective as the evil cold-blooded serial killer.
Two Susan Weaver (her real name) films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Alien and Aliens, 2 sci-fi classics, how often does that happen? There was a time when sci-fi movies were aimed only at kids, Stanley Kubrick changed all that 50 years ago.
Alien tops IMDBs Weaver chart with 8.5, Aliens is in 2nd place with 8.4. They both get 9 out of 10 at Rotten Tomatoes. Though Aliens is 98% fresh to Alien’s 97%. There are no 9’s but there are 18 films scoring 8 out of 10 from the 40 on my chart not bad.
“I changed my name when I was twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Suzie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.”
“I’ve always admired Margaret Rutherford. Like her, I’d like to play Miss Marple when I’m eighty.”
TEACH Can you sort out for us the Alien 1979 mess that I’ve described below? I can live with the confusion but as the film is one of Steve’s big sci-fi faves he will probably become hyper if he doesn’t get clarification.
HI STEVE Thanks for the interesting feedback which I have come to expect from you. For a stats purist like me Alien 79 has always been a box office nightmare with conflicting figures for it appearing in the public domain. For example [all figures adjusted for inflation]
1/The Numbers gives it a domestic gross of $290 million and $750 million worldwide
2/Box Office Mojo quotes a domestic gross of again $290 but $379 million worldwide
3/Lees Movies suggests a domestic gross of $235 and a global one of $490 million.
4/There is a new site called Box Office Madness which sometimes makes me think its moderator has seen Bruce’s pronouncement that Myrna is Box Office Queen and decided to get in on the fun. It doesn’t do worldwides but quotes a domestic $325 million
Normally I rely on The Work Horse to come up with the definitive figure but on this occasion he only adds to the confusion because his suggestion is-
5/ $379 million which equates with Mojo’s worldwide one but unfortunately he quotes that figure for both domestic and worldwide gross on Ridley Scott’s page.
Hence my appeal in this post to our Oracle. The tagline on original posters for Alien 1979 is “In space no one can hear you scream.” Well I’m screaming down here on earth because of the confusion that I have just explained.
I have seen 5 actresses play Miss Marple [including Bruce’s Delilah Angela Lansbury in the 1980 The Mirror Crack’d] and the best in for me was TV’s Geraldine McEwan with Margaret Rutherford the least satisfying in my opinion. Rutherford played Marple for laughs in the way that Tony Randall gave Christie’s Poirot the humorous treatment and spoilt that character too.
As well Margaret played Jane Marple as a kind of battle-axe female figure that you saw in British seaside posters poised behind the door and brandishing a roller pin as she awaited the return of a straying husband.
I don’t know if they still make them but when I lived in Blighty I loved those postcards. I thought one of the funniest was of a titchy sailor[ like Sinatra in On the Town] lying on a bed with a buxom blonde housewife and a storm raging outside and the door opening to show a burly husband returning unexpectedly because of the storm and shouting in from the doorway “Heaven help a sailor on a night like this!”
Hey Bob…..our Alien box office prediction.
1. Seems our adjusted domestic total is higher than anybody else….but we can live with that.
2. According to Variety…Alien was the 31st biggest hit of the 1970s…and the 4th biggest hit of 1979. They have a rental number of 40.30 million.
3. Most sites seem to use a “times two” formula…simply taking the rental and times it by 2 to get about $80 million in gross. Our rental to cost to box office figure gives it more box office credit…as our estimated gross is $102 million.
4. So when taking into account tickets sold ….our gap greatly increases over the other sites.
5. Normally I bow to the greatness of Box Office Mojo….but not in this case….I feel they have it wrong.
6. As for the worldwide gross Mojo has about $24 million….while The Numbers has a more realistic number….with an estimated gross of $123 million.
7. Over the last year….I have become convinced The Numbers is a better source for worldwide grosses….many times Mojo is slow to report worldwide grosses…..while sometimes never even showing the grosses.
8. Kudos to The Numbers….because for a long time…I was not too impressed with their website….their work in worldwide grosses should be given a big round of applause.
9. Just put together an Alien UMR page…that shows the stats for that movie. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/alien-1979/
10. Hope that helps.
HI BRUCE
That certainly does help. Your figure of around $817 million worldwide seems reasonable as Alien was a massive hit globally and you are in effect showing a foreign gross of just a bit more than the domestic one $380 million domestic/$440 million overseas rounded.
Those are now the official figures in my database so great work and thanks very much.
Hey Bob…glad it helps….I think these grosses look good. Alien was a hit everywhere in the world. Plus now we have an Alien UMR page. Good stuff all around.
I’ve seen 39 of the films listed, and I have a few more to watch soon (ish).
Great, Lawrence.
She is a wonderful actress.
🙂
Current Tally Standings.
Larry from the USA 39
Cogerson from the USA 37
Steve Lensman from The New England 30
Laurent from France 17
Flora from Canada 8
This makes up for our horrible showing on the Audie Murphy page…lol.
Horrible showing with Larry at 39?
No dice, my friend.
Yes his 39 here is awesome…but all the last new page (Audie Murphy) Larry and I got 4 each…..and that was the terrible showing I was talking about.
Oh, okay!
Because Robert Roy and I tend to talk about actors on pages other than their own pages – then I was not sure which you meant. I mean, Robert Roy and I are of a kind. We talk about all sorts of actors who worked with people or were related to people etc. other than the actual page.
Such as the fact that we are always talking about getting actors named Robert mixed up.
Hey Flora….I know what you mean. As long as you and Bob understand….all is good….lol.
If by the trailer above for “Duel at Silver Creek” you are implying that you are considering doing your next page on AUDIE MURPHY, then by all means go for it!
I’m a HUGE Murphy fan. The guy never got his due as an iconic western action star, or for that matter, as an actor in general. If you don’t believe he had considerable acting chops, check out “Red Badge of Courage”, the remake of “Destry” (he’s better than Stewart), the female-centric (and female empowering) “Guns of Fort Petticoat”, or one of the best anti-hero films ever made “No Name on the Bullet”, my favorite film of his.
I repeat Go For It!
PS. I love your site.
Hey, there.
I know what you mean about this site.
I’ve been following Cogerson for 5 years through 3 different sites.
Hey Flora….5 years 3 sites….the time has flown.
Hey Paul….thanks for checking out our Sigourney Weaver page….and now the Audie Murphy page is ready to go. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/audie-murphy-movies/
All of the movies you listed did well in the ranking categories. Red Badge and No Name on the Bullet finished 1st and 3rd according to critics. Destry was 6th according to our UMR rankings…and Guns of Fort Petticoat ….ok Guns of Fort Petticoat did not fare too well…but 3 out 4 is not too bad…lol. Thanks for the compliment.
Hi
I remember going to see Alien in 1979, it had such an impact, everybody was talking about it. Weaver was brilliant and it certainly made her an icon. Especially after Aliens. It’s funny in the 80s there was such a craze about E.T. all cuddly and lovable and then you had Alien and The Thing. The contrast was incredible.
Anyway getting back to Weaver, no matter what film she’s been in, she’s always been good. It would be nice to see her get a really good supporting role that would be Oscar worthy.
Hey Chris…I think Alien impacted many many people the same way. Funny that you mention ET and The Thing….the DVD commentary of The Thing with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter…talks about how The Thing opened right after ET did…and some people were thinking they were going to be seeing a cute funny alien….and boy were they shocked when Carpenter’s Thing showed up on screen. I actually their Thing commentaries is one of my all-time favorites. I agree she is one of those performers that makes any movie better. Oscar might still be calling for her. As always thanks for sharing your movie thoughts.