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Birthdate: July 15, 1961
Forest Whitaker
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.6880
10
1990s
2.3771
16
2000s
2.2995
25
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7273
2.7273
Forest Whitaker Movie Rankings
1
3.2863A member of the IRA quickly becomes friendly with Jody, his hostage. He promises to look after Jody's girlfriend if anything happens to him. When the hostage situation goes horribly wrong the IRA agent flees to London where he finds Jody's girl ultimately, beginning a relationship with her. ...more about Crying Game
DVD from $7.95
(11 sellers)
2
3.1551Chris Taylor is a new army recruit and had been just assigned to his first unit. Through the eyes of this young and naive solider, we witness the raid of a small Vietnamese village and the physical, mental and emotional strain placed on soldiers in war. ...more about Platoon
DVD from $4.29
(16 sellers)
3
3.0762'Fast Times' is a high school classic spawning a generation of high school comedies and immortalizing Sean Penn as the forever stoned, Spicoli. Each character struggles with sexuality, authority and responsibility, hoping only to make it through high school alive without humiliation. ...more about Fast Times at Ridgemont High
DVD from $4.99
(15 sellers)
4
3.0681
The story of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's tyrannical rein told through the eyes of his personal physician, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan. When Garrigan learns of Amin's brutal nature it takes everything he has to escape Uganda with his life. ...more about Last King of Scotland
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Black Reel Awards - Best Actor
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Image Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $9.95
(14 sellers)
5
2.9799
Oscar winner Denzel Washington directs and stars in this drama set in the segregated South. Washington plays a debate coach who takes a Texas college team from obscurity to a showdown with Harvard's renowned students. ...more about Great Debaters
DVD from $19.49
(4 sellers)
6
2.9530
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. ...more about Good Morning
DVD from $8.38
(12 sellers)
7
2.9510
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
- Black Reel Awards - Theatrical - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $6.37
(13 sellers)
8
2.9021
The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. ...more about Smoke
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
9
2.8993
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. ...more about Color of Money
DVD from $6.39
(10 sellers)
10
2.7538
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him. ...more about Bird
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
DVD from $6.59
(10 sellers)
11
2.7290
The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. ...more about Phenomenon
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama
- Image Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
12
2.7010
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends. Allen Payne (I) plays Jason, a sales clerk at a T.V. store. ...more about Jason's Lyric
DVD from $6.45
(12 sellers)
13
2.6826
Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. ...more about Stakeout
DVD from $6.37
(10 sellers)
14
2.6448
Family moves to military base for the summer, but the soldiers are behaving even more strangely than usual. ...more about Body Snatchers
DVD from $5.99
(10 sellers)
15
2.6203
A group of four specialists are given the task of tracking down Sil. "She"'s part human, part alien, beautiful, strong, very dangerous and desperate to mate with a human. ...more about Species
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
16
2.5942
Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. ...more about Bloodsport
DVD from $4.59
(10 sellers)
17
2.4901
Three characters linked by the mythical Maria Maddalena - Mary Magdalene... Tony Childress, an infamous, egotistical and obsessive actor/director is playing the lead role of Jesus in his controversial new film THIS IS MY BLOOD. ...more about Mary
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.4840
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant. ...more about Light It Up
DVD from $6.39
(9 sellers)
19
2.4397
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. ...more about Green Dragon
DVD from $7.03
(9 sellers)
20
2.4276
Jarmusch's spiritual gangster film tells the story of an inner-city hit man (Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop, training himself as a samurai in the strictest sense. ...more about Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.3659
Jimmy Dove works for the bomb squad in Boston and he is always the one who is on the tough jobs. One day he decides to quit the force and to become a teacher for the rookies of the squad. ...more about Blown Away
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
22
2.2813
Thomas Barnes and Kent Taylor are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. ...more about Vantage Point
DVD from $17.99
(5 sellers)
23
2.2577
"La La Wood" follows the legacy of Jiminy Glick (Martin Short in a fat suit), first introduced on "The Martin Short Show," who went on to get (non)-critical acclaim for his talk show "Primetime Glick," where Mr. ...more about Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
DVD from $5.26
(10 sellers)
24
2.2273
Keanu Reeves stars in this action-packed film with a stellar supporting cast. Detective Ludlow (Reeves) is on the hunt to discover who is behind the death of his former partner. ...more about Street Kings
DVD from $17.99
(8 sellers)
25
2.1762
Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, this film follows Stu Shepard (Farrell), a low-rent media consultant who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot ...more about Phone Booth
DVD from $8.99
(15 sellers)
26
2.1705
IFC Films presents AMERICAN GUN, a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically influence and shape every day lives. ...more about American Gun
DVD from $12.77
(9 sellers)
27
2.1209
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. ...more about Rage in Harlem
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
28
2.1192
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a manipulative race of aliens on a quest for global domination. ...more about Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.99
(9 sellers)
29
2.0232
American Gun is a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affects and shapes the every day lives of its citizens. ...more about American Gun
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.0118
Richard and Priscilla Parker's lives take a turn for the better when Eddy and Kay move into the house next door. Eddy's a risk taker and shows his new neighbours how to enjoy life at the expense of a rule or convention or two. ...more about Consenting Adults
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
31
1.9788
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison. ...more about Johnny Handsome
DVD from $6.83
(11 sellers)
33
1.7016
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast. ...more about Ready to Wear
DVD from $5.99
(8 sellers)
34
1.6858
A group of best friends and amateur thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. ...more about Four Dogs Playing Poker
DVD from $16.78
(6 sellers)
35
1.6650
Vision Quest is a coming of age movie in which high school wrestler Louden Swain (Matthew Modine) decides he wants to be something more than an average high school athlete and sets his sights on a prize that many don't think he can win -- he then sets ...more about Vision Quest
DVD from $4.49
(11 sellers)
36
1.6221
This drama follows the lives of nine individuals whom all have a horrible addiction to either gambling or drugs. As the story unfolds, we come to understand that addiction has no preference over who is absorbed into its world. ...more about Even Money
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.5741
A group of doctors in a veteran's hospital must contend with their hopeless situation: too many patients and not enough beds. The main cause of their problems is bureaucratic belt-tightening by the hospital administrators. ...more about Article 99
DVD from $6.68
(10 sellers)
38
1.5616
Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich plush suburb of Philadelphia. (The police station looks like it came from Beverly Hills) When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown. ...more about Downtown
DVD from $2.75
(8 sellers)
39
1.5506
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own. ...more about Body Count
DVD from $4.29
(9 sellers)
40
1.5113
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant bribes ...more about Bank Robber
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.0319
Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waiver. The longer he takes to do the job the more difficult it becomes. ...more about Diary of a Hitman
- Not Available on DVD
45
0.2740
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. ...more about Air I Breathe
- Not Available on DVD
48
The Misbehavers documents a small army of guerilla filmmakers as they converge at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for a mission dubbed Operation: Altitude. ...more about Misbehavers
- Not Available on DVD
49
"Odyssey in Rome" is a documentary extracted from the preparation and production of the movie "Mary" by Abel Ferrara. ...more about Odyssey in Rome
- Not Available on DVD
50
Fashion designer Amer Atrash, perpetually on the verge of success, is undergoing a personal crisis in both his marriage and his business. ...more about Ripple Effect
- Not Available on DVD
51
Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the somewhat older Susan Swayze, who he long admired from afar. ...more about Tag: The Assassination Game
- Not Available on DVD
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