Top 200 Movie Stars Statistically Speaking

This UMR pages takes a look at the Top 200 Movie Stars Statistically Speaking. So how did we end up with this massive table? Well let me tell you. Recently we finished a 5 year project on the AFI Top 50 Screen Legends. The AFI Top 50 screen legends were movie stars that started making movies before 1950. Many times while working on those pages we thought…”Wonder who would be the AFI Screen Legends for actors that started making movies after 1950?”

So we came up with the idea of creating our own Top 50 Screen Legends 1950-2010. It did not take too long to realize that picking the best actors and actresses over the last 60 years was going to be very challenging. On the actor side we identified 47 very solid candidates and on the actress side we identified 29 solid candidates. So we were faced with the problem off coming up with a way to select the Top 25 actors and actresses. So using our massive movie database that is filled with almost a million movie stats, we created the following table. Basically the movie stars got points for each successful movie that they appeared in. To us..a movie is successful when it either makes money at the box office, receives good reviews by critcs and audiences or wins some major movie awards.

When running the reports that retrieved all of these stats….it brought along the classic stars too. At first we were going to delete the classic stars from the table…..but eventually we realized that since this is a table of stats we should include both the classic and current stars. So we will eventually be posting our Top 50 Screen Legends 1950-2010..but until then we thought this was interesting enough to post.

Top 200 Movie Stars Statistically Speaking

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

Column One – Movies: Movies in our database that starred the actor or actress
Column Two – $100 Million B.O: Number of $100 million adjusted domestic box office hits the actor or actress appeared in. Each movie was worth 1 point. John Wayne had the most and earned 46 points.
Column Three – Best Picture: Number of Best Picture Oscar® nominated movies the actor or actress appeared in. Nomination was worth 1 point..a win was worth 2 points. Jack Nicholson led the way with 13 points…7 Best Picture nominees and 3 Best Picture winners.
Column Four – 60% Fresh: Number of movies that earned at least 60% approval rating from critics and audiences. Each movie was worth 1 point. Orson Welles led the way with 62 points.
Column Five – Noms. Wins: Number of individual Oscar® nominations and wins the actor or actress received. Nomination worth 3 points…a win worth 5 points. Meryl Streep was the leader with 63 points. 16 nominations and 3 wins.
Column Six – Movie Noms: Number of Oscar® nominated movies (any category) the actor or actress appeared in. Nomination was worth 1 point..a win was worth 2 points. Spencer Tracy was the leader with 42 points….30 movies nominated….12 won.
Column Seven – Quigley: The number of times an actress or actor appeared on the annual Quigley Top 10 box office stars. Each time equals one point. John Wayne made the list 25 times.
Column Eight – Points: Total of the previous six columns…John Wayne is the leader.
Column Nine – Points Per Movie – Column Eight divided by Column One…James Dean has the best average.

Rank	Actor	Movies	$100 Million B.O.	60% Fresh	Noms Wins	Movie noms	Quigley	Pts.	Pts Per Movie
	John Wayne	83	46	55	11	29	25	171	2.06
	Gary Cooper	68	37	50	19	37	18	170	2.50
	James Stewart	73	41	56	17	34	10	167	2.29
	Meryl Streep	53	14	38	63	37	4	164	3.09
	Spencer Tracy	53	30	39	31	42	10	161	3.04
	Bette Davis	79	24	53	37	33	4	159	2.01
	Paul Newman	56	25	36	29	37	14	148	2.64
	Jack Nicholson	48	19	36	42	29	6	145	3.02
	Cary Grant	58	38	47	6	36	11	144	2.48
	Clint Eastwood	57	31	42	19	23	21	143	2.50
	Clark Gable	63	42	46	11	18	16	141	2.24
	Anthony Quinn	81	26	55	16	30	0	131	1.62
	Bing Crosby	55	28	43	11	30	15	131	2.38
	Robert DeNiro	90	16	47	25	30	2	130	1.44
	Burt Lancaster	67	25	53	14	27	2	130	1.94
	Gregory Peck	53	26	38	17	37	2	129	2.43
	Humphrey Bogart	58	31	50	11	21	8	128	2.21
	Dustin Hoffman	51	19	34	25	30	9	128	2.51
	Robert Duvall	73	17	43	23	34	0	127	1.74
	Tom Hanks	43	23	26	24	27	18	127	2.95
	Mickey Rooney	62	35	41	12	28	6	126	2.03
	Henry Fonda	83	29	53	8	27	0	125	1.51
	Jack Lemmon	53	15	37	28	31	8	124	2.34
	Katharine Hepburn	43	17	28	44	27	1	124	2.88
	William Holden	66	22	43	11	29	6	121	1.83
	Gene Hackman	76	17	44	19	30	2	120	1.58
	Lionel Barrymore	61	29	51	8	23	0	120	1.97
	Woody Allen	53	6	38	37	29	5	119	2.24
	Michael Caine	89	17	48	22	27	0	118	1.33
	Laurence Olivier	48	10	36	32	29	0	115	2.40
	Robert Redford	46	22	33	11	33	7	115	2.50
	Marlon Brando	37	17	28	28	25	5	112	3.03
	Walter Brennan	41	27	34	18	28	0	110	2.68
	James Cagney	61	23	41	11	24	6	109	1.79
	Olivia de Havilland	47	22	31	19	28	0	109	2.32
	Tom Cruise	38	25	25	9	23	21	108	2.84
	Myrna Loy	62	28	48	0	20	2	106	1.71
	Samuel L. Jackson	92	23	51	3	25	0	105	1.14
	James Mason	75	18	52	9	23	0	105	1.40
	Morgan Freeman	60	23	35	17	23	0	105	1.75
	Frank Sinatra	55	32	29	8	24	6	104	1.89
	Harrison Ford	48	24	29	3	26	13	103	2.15
	Orson Welles	77	14	62	5	17	0	102	1.32
	Elizabeth Taylor	47	22	18	19	27	9	102	2.17
	Tyrone Power	45	33	29	0	32	3	101	2.24
	Jane Fonda	43	16	28	25	24	5	101	2.35
	Ingrid Bergman	32	16	23	27	25	3	100	3.12
	Joan Crawford	72	27	35	11	17	5	98	1.36
	Barbara Stanwyck	71	22	47	12	16	0	98	1.38
	Susan Hayward	54	24	29	17	25	3	98	1.81
	Fred Astaire	39	27	32	3	29	3	97	2.49
	Robert Mitchum	85	25	44	6	18	0	96	1.13
	Ginger Rogers	54	26	37	5	20	3	96	1.78
	Claudette Colbert	48	23	36	11	18	3	96	2.00
	Brad Pitt	41	14	30	9	25	8	94	2.29
	Edward G. Robinson	67	21	52	0	17	0	93	1.39
	Charlton Heston	61	23	34	5	25	0	92	1.51
	David Niven	55	22	33	5	25	0	92	1.67
	Richard Burton	46	15	22	21	24	4	92	2.00
	Al Pacino	41	14	25	26	15	4	92	2.24
	Kirk Douglas	71	16	41	9	23	0	90	1.27
	Leonardo DiCaprio	25	12	18	20	21	9	90	3.60
	Martin Scorsese	24	9	23	26	23	0	90	3.75
	Shirley MacLaine	49	12	29	17	23	1	89	1.82
	Denzel Washington	43	14	29	22	14	9	89	2.07
	Bob Hope	53	29	32	0	14	13	88	1.66
	Alfred Hitchcock	31	20	28	15	20	0	88	2.84
	Anthony Hopkins	63	13	32	14	22	0	87	1.38
	Johnny Depp	45	12	29	9	27	8	87	1.93
	Walter Matthau	58	17	37	11	17	2	86	1.48
	Sean Connery	56	20	32	5	21	7	86	1.54
	Susan Sarandon	64	12	36	17	18	0	84	1.31
	Matt Damon	41	15	30	9	20	4	84	2.05
	Errol Flynn	50	32	33	0	15	1	83	1.66
	Robin Williams	50	17	18	14	22	9	83	1.66
	Cate Blanchett	35	7	25	28	19	0	83	2.37
	Richard Widmark	61	15	40	3	21	0	82	1.34
	Jeff Bridges	60	6	30	20	23	0	82	1.37
	Sidney Poitier	46	17	31	8	18	3	82	1.78
	Judy Garland	31	27	28	6	16	3	82	2.65
	Ronald Colman	36	19	29	14	15	0	81	2.25
	Peter O''Toole	35	7	26	24	18	0	81	2.31
	Maureen O''Hara	53	25	33	0	18	0	80	1.51
	Joan Fontaine	39	17	29	11	18	0	79	2.03
	Glenn Ford	58	14	44	0	17	3	78	1.34
	Gene Kelly	40	21	25	3	25	0	78	1.95
	Doris Day	39	20	28	3	17	10	78	2.00
	William Powell	36	18	29	9	16	1	78	2.17
	Natalie Wood	43	17	26	9	22	0	77	1.79
	Mel Gibson	39	18	22	5	16	14	77	1.97
	Charles Laughton	33	16	25	11	19	0	77	2.33
	George Clooney	34	9	21	14	17	9	76	2.24
	Julianne Moore	56	7	31	17	17	0	75	1.34
	Irene Dunne	31	13	26	15	17	0	75	2.42
	Robert Downey Jr.	54	13	30	6	16	6	72	1.33
	Christian Bale	37	9	27	11	21	1	72	1.95
	Dean Martin	51	30	23	0	9	8	71	1.39
	Rock Hudson	50	13	31	3	15	8	71	1.42
	Julia Roberts	40	17	16	14	11	11	70	1.75
	Christopher Walken	61	14	27	8	15	0	69	1.13
	Daniel Day-Lewis	16	4	14	21	21	1	69	4.31
	Jodie Foster	35	10	23	16	14	2	68	1.94
	Norma Shearer	20	15	14	20	11	3	68	3.40
	Vincent Price	51	15	34	0	15	0	67	1.31
	Jerry Lewis	46	25	28	0	2	12	67	1.46
	Lee Marvin	46	10	32	5	13	5	67	1.46
	Betty Grable	32	21	24	0	12	10	67	2.09
	Kate Winslet	29	3	18	23	18	0	67	2.31
	Shirley Temple	37	20	33	0	6	6	66	1.78
	Russell Crowe	32	9	20	11	14	4	66	2.06
	Julie Andrews	26	13	19	11	16	4	66	2.54
	Audrey Hepburn	24	10	18	17	17	0	66	2.75
	Eddie Murphy	38	25	13	3	15	9	65	1.71
	Debbie Reynolds	38	15	30	3	14	2	65	1.71
	Lana Turner	50	22	26	3	12	0	64	1.28
	Nicolas Cage	58	12	28	8	12	2	63	1.09
	John Garfield	30	14	26	6	14	0	63	2.10
	James Caan	61	15	30	3	12	0	62	1.02
	James Coburn	53	12	31	5	14	0	62	1.17
	Bill Murray	47	13	27	3	14	2	62	1.32
	Michael Douglas	42	12	21	5	16	6	62	1.48
	Sylvester Stallone	47	17	18	8	8	8	61	1.30
	Liam Neeson	57	9	32	3	12	0	60	1.05
	Randolph Scott	52	17	30	0	9	4	60	1.15
	Burt Reynolds	66	17	17	3	9	12	59	0.89
	Bruce Willis	62	18	24	0	11	3	58	0.94
	John Travolta	46	19	15	6	9	7	58	1.26
	Kevin Costner	36	10	20	5	13	6	58	1.61
	Rita Hayworth	35	16	22	0	19	0	58	1.66
	Bruce Dern	56	8	28	6	12	0	57	1.02
	Frances McDormand	32	3	22	14	16	0	57	1.78
	Ava Gardner	40	16	21	3	16	0	56	1.40
	Amy Adams	24	7	17	15	14	0	56	2.33
	Barbra Streisand	19	13	9	8	13	10	56	2.95
	Ben Stiller	45	20	29	0	4	1	54	1.20
	Steve McQueen	26	10	18	3	12	9	54	2.08
	James Garner	48	10	27	3	12	0	53	1.10
	Ben Affleck	38	9	21	5	12	1	53	1.39
	Sandra Bullock	33	13	11	8	9	7	53	1.61
	Mary Pickford	31	22	24	5	2	0	53	1.71
	Lauren Bacall	36	11	23	3	15	0	52	1.44
	Marlene Dietrich	30	13	23	3	10	0	52	1.73
	Greta Garbo	24	5	24	12	7	1	52	2.17
	Woody Harrelson	49	11	26	6	5	0	51	1.04
	Scarlett Johansson	39	8	24	0	17	0	51	1.31
	Will Smith	24	14	13	6	9	9	51	2.12
	Charles Bronson	59	12	26	0	8	4	50	0.85
	Bud Abbott	36	14	28	0	0	8	50	1.39
	Dennis Quaid	61	7	26	0	13	0	49	0.80
	Montgomery Clift	16	8	11	12	14	0	49	3.06
	Steve Martin	43	16	24	0	7	1	48	1.12
	Matthew McConaughey	35	10	20	5	11	0	48	1.37
	Mark Ruffalo	34	5	19	11	10	0	47	1.38
	Angelina Jolie	32	12	13	8	11	3	47	1.47
	Edward Norton	24	6	20	9	9	0	47	1.96
	Martin Sheen	41	8	21	0	12	0	46	1.12
	Roy Scheider	30	7	17	6	12	0	46	1.53
	Lillian Gish	31	12	25	3	5	0	45	1.45
	Goldie Hawn	28	11	11	8	13	2	45	1.61
	Anne Hathaway	24	12	10	8	11	2	45	1.88
	John Cusack	50	6	28	0	9	0	44	0.88
	Mark Wahlberg	36	11	17	3	9	1	44	1.22
	Jim Carrey	29	16	11	0	10	7	44	1.52
	Daniel Craig	28	8	17	0	15	2	44	1.57
	Marilyn Monroe	23	11	19	0	9	3	44	1.91
	Kurt Russell	45	11	24	0	8	0	43	0.96
	Anthony Perkins	33	7	22	3	10	0	43	1.30
	Natalie Portman	28	8	18	8	8	0	43	1.54
	Jennifer Lawrence	16	8	11	14	6	1	43	2.69
	Owen Wilson	41	14	17	0	9	0	42	1.02
	Carole Lombard	39	10	26	3	3	0	42	1.08
	Bradley Cooper	28	12	9	9	7	2	42	1.50
	Vivien Leigh	15	6	11	10	11	0	42	2.80
	Charlize Theron	35	6	14	8	11	0	41	1.17
	Sophia Loren	34	5	15	8	13	0	41	1.21
	Arnold Schwarzenegger	34	14	14	0	6	7	41	1.21
	Hugh Jackman	25	11	14	3	10	2	41	1.64
	Grace Kelly	11	8	10	8	12	1	41	3.73
	Keanu Reeves	42	9	20	0	10	0	40	0.95
	Steve Carell	28	11	17	3	6	1	40	1.43
	Orlando Bloom	19	10	11	0	14	0	39	2.05
	Warren Oates	39	4	24	0	8	0	38	0.97
	Tom Hardy	20	5	15	3	12	0	38	1.90
	Cameron Diaz	34	14	13	0	8	1	37	1.09
	Jessica Chastain	16	5	14	6	8	0	37	2.31
	Michael Keaton	33	5	14	3	11	0	36	1.09
	Hugh Grant	27	5	18	0	10	0	36	1.33
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	33	5	20	0	8	0	35	1.06
	Halle Berry	32	12	12	5	6	0	35	1.09
	Elizabeth Banks	38	9	22	0	2	0	34	0.89
	Meg Ryan	32	8	13	0	10	3	34	1.06
	Jean Harlow	22	9	19	0	4	1	34	1.55
	John Candy	34	11	16	0	5	0	33	0.97
	Danny Kaye	17	11	14	0	8	0	33	1.94
	Adam Sandler	32	16	7	0	1	6	30	0.94
	Emily Blunt	23	4	17	0	9	0	30	1.30
	Charles Chaplin	12	7	12	6	4	0	30	2.50
	Paul Rudd	34	7	18	0	3	0	29	0.85
	Elvis Presley	33	7	14	0	0	7	28	0.85
	Will Ferrell	30	11	14	0	1	0	26	0.87
	Emma Stone	20	5	10	3	5	0	26	1.30
	Jason Bateman	29	8	12	0	3	0	25	0.86
	Shia LaBeouf	21	7	11	0	5	2	25	1.19
	Chris Pratt	16	5	9	0	8	0	25	1.56
	Vince Vaughn	34	9	11	0	3	1	24	0.71
	Channing Tatum	27	7	14	0	3	0	24	0.89
	Zoe Saldana	27	6	10	0	7	0	24	0.89
	Leonard Nimoy	11	9	8	0	6	0	23	2.09
	Charlie Sheen	33	6	9	0	5	0	22	0.67
	Anna Kendrick	18	3	12	3	3	0	22	1.22
	Mae West	12	9	8	0	2	2	22	1.83
	Marx Brothers	18	6	13	0	1	0	20	1.11
	Ryan Reynolds	31	6	12	0	1	0	19	0.61
	Chris Evans	23	6	11	0	2	0	19	0.83
	Dwayne Johnson	24	11	7	0	0	0	18	0.75
	James Dean	3	3	3	6	5	0	18	6.00
	Jennifer Aniston	29	8	9	0	0	0	17	0.59
	Mila Kunis	16	5	7	0	3	0	16	1.00
	David Bowie	15	0	10	0	2	0	12	0.80
	Milla Jovovich	24	1	8	0	2	0	11	0.46
	Emilio Estevez	23	3	7	0	1	0	11	0.48
	Kevin Hart	18	2	4	0	0	0	6	0.33

And finally a quick note about Bruce Willis. Willis is one of our Top 3 actors. When we started thinking about the Top 25 actors of the last 60 years….Bruce making the list seemed possible….but after seeing the stats….not thinking Bruce is going to make. At least Cary Grant is 2nd on the legends list…and Michael Caine has a good chance to make the new list. But poor Bruce is going to be falling short whenever we get to that page.

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18 thoughts on “Top 200 Movie Stars Statistically Speaking”

Sam says:

March 4, 2016 at 2:17 pm

Interesting

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1. Cogerson says:
  
  March 6, 2016 at 3:40 pm
  
  Thanks Sam
  
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Henri says:

March 4, 2016 at 9:06 am

sorry hon…love Bette Davis dearly, but only 10 OSCAR nominations ..!!

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1. Cogerson says:
  
  March 4, 2016 at 9:07 am
  
  I gave her credit for her write in nomination for Of Human Bondage….plus it was a weighted column….9 nominations (3 points each) 2 wins (5 points) for a grand total of 37….which was the 4th best total of all these stars. Thanks for checking out my stat table. It is greatly appreciated.
  
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Steve Lensman says:

March 4, 2016 at 6:06 am

An interesting list Bruce, and very ‘user-sortable’, nice. The only actor on the list I haven’t seen any films of is Mary Pickford. I think I’ve only seen one Kevin Hart film.

Good to see John Wayne topping the points charts, I have more films starring Wayne in my collection than any other actor, let me check my database… 109 films! Mostly classic Hollywood actors at the top as it should be, the anomalies begin further down, Walter Brennan scoring more points than the likes of Jimmy Cagney and Orson Welles. Brennan is a fine character actor and usually the comic relief in his films but he’s rated a little too highly on this chart. At least Charlton Heston made the top 60. 🙂

Wayne wasn’t as fresh as Orson or Jimmy but he did out-Quigley Clint, I’m impressed.

Oh poor Milla and Mila, the last actresses on the points chart. tut tut what have you got against Ukrainian actresses Bruce? 🙂

Good work Bruce. Nice to have all this data on one page. Voted Up!

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1. Cogerson says:
  
  March 4, 2016 at 8:48 am
  
  Hey Steve.
  1. I am right there with you….I still have not seen a Mary Pickford movie.
  2. 109 Wayne movies in your collection….I did not include many of his B movies…which is why my total is only 83….but I think I have all of his movies from 1939 to the Shootist.
  3. At one point I actually deleted some of the character actors like Brennan….but at the end he made it back in. I think the average per movie column is interesting. Little James Dean goes from the bottom all the way to the top. Daniel Day-Lewis has an awesome jump to….not to mention Leo…who goes to 4th place….wait …why is Martin Scorsese on the list….you have to go Martin…this is for actors only.
  5. At first I thought Orson’s high fresh number was a mistake…but then again…the man was famous for making great movies that nobody noticed until years had passed.
  6. Hey Milla and Mila made the table…at first the last 22 got deleted as well.
  Thanks for checking out this silly but hopefully entertaining look at all of these stars.
  
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2. Cogerson says:
  
  March 4, 2016 at 8:55 am
  
  My Top 25 Possible Screen Legends…1950-2010….using Points Per Movie.
  1. Daniel Day-Lewis
  2. Leonardo DiCaprio
  3. Jack Nicholson
  4. Tom Hanks
  5. Tom Cruise
  6. Paul Newman
  7. Dustin Hoffman
  8. Clint Eastwood
  9. Robert Redford
  10. Jack Lemmon
  11. Peter O’Toole
  12. Brad Pitt
  13. Woody Allen
  14. Al Pacino
  15. George Clooney
  16. Harrison Ford
  17. Will Smith
  18. Steve McQueen
  19. Denzel Washington
  20. Russell Crowe
  21. Matt Damon
  22. Orlando Bloom
  23. Richard Burton
  24. Mel Gibson
  25. Edward Norton
  Christian Bale is the first one out
  
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Flora Breen Robison says:

March 4, 2016 at 1:42 am

I’m glad you included everyone in this table that you’ve done regardless of era. It is a helpful tool for anyone who’s interested in box office.

I won’t bother mentioning which names on the list I love and which ones I don’t like.

There are, of course, people I have never seen a single film of theirs on this list too who are alive and my age or younger. There are some people who get regularly mentioned on imdb whose names are unrecognizable to me.

I won’t bother mentioning them either.

Cheers,

Flora

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1. Cogerson says:
  
  March 4, 2016 at 8:41 am
  
  Hey Flora….glad you liked this page…..this is the stuff I do with my numbers in the data base. At this point….I have decided to just go ahead and do a page on the stuff I am playing around with…it might not be too interesting….but I feel it is a good way to look at different actors from different eras. I see Peck did well (16th) and Widmark cracked the Top 80. Thanks as always for checking out my latest project.
  
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Helakoski says:

March 3, 2016 at 11:14 pm

I look forward to your current AFI list. Newman and Lemmon have to have spots reserved.

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1. Cogerson says:
  
  March 4, 2016 at 8:36 am
  
  Hey Helakoski. My AFI list is still a work in progress….but pretty sure Newman and Lemmon will make the list…if I used this list as the only criteria in my selections this would be the 25
  1. Paul Newman
  2. Jack Nicholson
  3. Clint Eastwood
  4. Robert DeNiro
  5. Dustin Hoffman
  6. Robert Duvall
  7. Tom Hanks
  8. Gene Hackman
  9. Jack Lemmon
  10. Woody Allen
  11. Michael Caine
  12. Robert Redford
  13. Tom Cruise
  14. Samuel L. Jackson
  15. Morgan Freeman
  16. Harrison Ford
  17. Brad Pitt
  18. Richard Burton
  19. Al Pacino
  20. Leonardo DiCaprio
  21. Denzel Washington
  22. Anthony Hopkins
  23. Johnny Depp
  24. Sean Connery
  25. Matt Damon
  Robin Williams would be the first one out. I feel this is a good list…..but a few changes would need to be made…as Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Hopkins do not seem like good picks.
  
  Thanks for stopping by.
  
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