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Birthdate: November 19, 1962
Jodie Foster
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
2.6919
11
1980s
1.9449
10
1990s
2.9439
11
2000s
3.0159
9
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.0368
3.0368
Jodie Foster Movie Rankings
1
3.8124A New York City cab driver becomes increasingly disgusted with the scum and low lives of the city. When he meets an underage prostitute, he sets himself on a mission to save her and the city. ...more about Taxi Driver
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $8.95
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2
3.1843During WWI, five French men are court marshaled and exiled to no man's land between enemy and allied trenches. All presumed dead, until the fiancée of one receives evidence to believe he is alive. She sets out on a painful journey to find her love. ...more about Very Long Engagement
DVD from $12.71
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3
3.0462Negotiator Keith Frazier has met his match when Dalton Russell enacts the "perfect" bank heist. Each knowing the other has another trick up his sleeve, it seems every time Frasier has a handle on the dangerous situation Russell is one-step ahead. ...more about Inside Man
DVD from $4.99
(16 sellers)
4
3.0126
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. ...more about Silence of the Lambs
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $5.69
(16 sellers)
5
2.9868
Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. ...more about Contact
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actress - Drama
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Rembrandt Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $5.50
(14 sellers)
6
2.9506
This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their new New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. ...more about Panic Room
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $6.37
(13 sellers)
7
2.9226
When Alice's husband dies, she has no money but must support her 12 year old son. She decides she wants to move to Monterey, California, to be a singer. ...more about Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
8
2.9007
Based on Chris Fuhrman's original and audacious coming-of-age novel, this film is a 70's-set drama featuring two charming but irreverent Catholic high schoolers who confront the mysteries of adulthood. ...more about Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
DVD from $10.23
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9
2.8193
A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan". ...more about Bugsy Malone
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.8170
Schoolgirl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. ...more about Freaky Friday
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $7.34
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11
2.7918
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. ...more about Little Man Tate
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
12
2.7849
This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. ...more about Anna and the King
DVD from $4.99
(13 sellers)
13
2.7530
Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. ...more about Accused
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $5.68
(9 sellers)
14
2.6077
In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. ...more about Flightplan
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $4.73
(16 sellers)
15
2.5680
Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only person she knew was her mother and twin sister. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Nobody has ever met Nell. ...more about Nell
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
16
2.5278
Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. ...more about Maverick
DVD from $4.59
(11 sellers)
17
2.4666
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. ...more about Sommersby
DVD from $9.48
(9 sellers)
18
2.4589
Small time crook, Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor where Lady St. Edmund resides, with a number of children and her butler (Priory) is the resting place for a hoard of buried treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. ...more about Candleshoe
DVD from $10.98
(10 sellers)
19
2.4410
11-year old Napoleon lives with his grandfather. He has a good friend who is a clown at a circus. When the clown returns to Europe, Napoleon takes care of lion Major. But the grandfather dies and Napoleon runs off with the lion and his friend Samantha. ...more about Napoleon and Samantha
DVD from $10.98
(9 sellers)
20
2.4373
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. ...more about Brave One
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $8.99
(18 sellers)
21
2.4307
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. Based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard. ...more about Nim's Island
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.4301
A small and insignificant bookkeeper, Kleinman, is awoken one night by his neighbours who wants him to help them track down a strangler who has been killing people all over town. ...more about Shadows and Fog
DVD from $5.91
(14 sellers)
23
2.0428
This is a suspenseful story of a young girl navigating her adolescence solo. She spends her days hiding from an unloved mother, left abandoned by a suicidal father and trying to survive. ...more about Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress - Horror
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
24
1.9735
An artist (Foster) witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. ...more about Catchfire
DVD from $6.59
(11 sellers)
26
1.8510
Young psychotic man returns to neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks young lady he previously tried to rape and young man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him. ...more about Five Corners
DVD from $15.43
(1 sellers)
27
1.8181
This Disney adventure is set in the Old West and follows the friendship between a wayward soldier and a young Indian. During a cavalry attack, Corporal Clint Keyes (James Garner) runs afoul of his superiors for helping the enemy. ...more about One Little Indian
DVD from $10.98
(7 sellers)
28
1.7761
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood soaked and bruised) she has flashbacks from the past few days. ...more about Siesta
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.5539
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters. ...more about Hotel New Hampshire
DVD from $4.09
(10 sellers)
30
1.4254
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder. ...more about Tom Sawyer
DVD from $9.99
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31
1.3825
Mark Harmon is a washed-up baseball player who is call back home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/ first love who had committed suicide. As he searches for what to do with them, he remembers the past and the relationship they had. ...more about Stealing Home
DVD from $1.96
(14 sellers)
33
1.3058
A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, and the usual problems teenagers has to cope with. Deidre is fascinated by sex, Madge is unhappily overweight, Annie is into drugs and Jeanie has to take care of all of them. ...more about Foxes
Actor Awards
- Young Artist Awards - Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture
DVD from $6.62
(10 sellers)
35
1.2114
A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. They earn their living by mercilessly taunting spectators to try to dump one of them into the water by throwing balls. ...more about Carny
- Not Available on DVD
36
0.8081
WWII. In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection. ...more about Sang des autres
- Not Available on DVD
37
Abby Singer chronicles a schizophrenic casting director, Curtis Clemens, hell-bent on ending his life in the aftermath of losing the love of a girl to the seething underbelly of the Sundance Film Festival. ...more about Abby Singer
- Not Available on DVD
38
The eleven-year-old Deirdre suffers from an incureable heart trouble. For two years, her parents Eugene and Ruth have consulted heart specialists - but without any success. ...more about Echoes of a Summer
- Not Available on DVD
40
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara (Asner) is devastated when his wife (Hartley) dies suddenly. ...more about O'Hara's Wife
DVD from $2.75
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