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Birthdate: May 9, 1936
Albert Finney
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
2.3692
7
1970s
2.2066
5
1980s
2.4064
8
1990s
2.6479
9
2000s
2.8726
8
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1606
3.1606
Albert Finney Movie Rankings
1
3.2761A modern look at the war on drugs. No longer are drugs used by bums and low lives, they have penetrated all lifestyles including housewives, corrupt cops and upper-middle class high school students. ...more about Traffic
DVD from $5.95
(13 sellers)
2
3.1075A highly styled 'genre' film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. ...more about Miller's Crossing
DVD from $6.33
(10 sellers)
3
3.0899Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. ...more about Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Actor Awards
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Supporting Actor of the Year
DVD from $18.29
(4 sellers)
4
3.0076
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. ...more about Big Fish
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $3.95
(16 sellers)
5
3.0026
Tom Jones, a presumed bastard child, is taken in and raised as the child of an English gentleman. ...more about Tom Jones
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
6
2.9776
Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. ...more about Erin Brockovich
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Supporting Actor of the Year
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $5.26
(12 sellers)
7
2.8429
Catherine Sloper has found the man of her dreams in Morris Townsend, but her plans to marry him are strongly opposed by her father, who believes Townsend is only interested in his daughter for her money. ...more about Washington Square
DVD from $6.39
(9 sellers)
8
2.8409
Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long emnity. ...more about Duellists
DVD from $4.94
(12 sellers)
9
2.8005
A city cop is assigned to solve a bizarre set of violent murders where it appears that the victoms were killed by animals. In his pursuit he learns of an Indian legend about wolf spirits. ...more about Wolfen
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
10
2.7283
Sir Laurence Olivier re-creates his famous stage role as Archie Rice created by 'John Osborne' (qv). He is a third rate act, headlining a failing end-of-the-pier show in a run down seaside resort. ...more about Entertainer
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
11
2.6961
In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. ...more about Annie
DVD from $9.32
(13 sellers)
12
2.6857
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. ...more about Browning Version
Actor Awards
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $9.59
(5 sellers)
13
2.6855
As on of the youngest members of Parliament, William Wilberforce attempted to abolish slavery in Great Britain. Standing against some of the most powerful political leaders of the time he managed to assemble a diverse group of men to fight against slavery in the 18th century. ...more about Amazing Grace
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.6702
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". ...more about Man of No Importance
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6312
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...more about Dresser
Actor Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $9.56
(10 sellers)
16
2.4534
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. ...more about Simpatico
DVD from $3.95
(8 sellers)
17
2.4411
This is a delightful musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol. Cold-souled Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirit visitations on Christmas Eve. ...more about Scrooge
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $6.86
(12 sellers)
18
2.4180
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality. ...more about Breakfast of Champions
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
19
2.3406
Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating. ...more about Murder on the Orient Express
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
20
2.2855
A British investment broker inherits a large vineyard from his late uncle. While renovating the house and preparing for its sale, he is reminded of his childhood and the lifestyle of a vineyard owner. ...more about Good Year
DVD from $4.95
(14 sellers)
23
2.0126
The life and loves of a brawling, boisterous factory worker stuck in a dreary industrial city in the English midlands. One of the first and most successful of the "kitchen sink" genre of British realism. ...more about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $7.69
(9 sellers)
25
1.8689
The two brothers Treat and Philip live alone since they were kids. Interdependent they dwell in a left house and live of little thefts, until an aging minor criminal moves in with them and takes over the role of a father. ...more about Orphans
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.8400
A plastic surgeon gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy, the next in line to be killed, he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. ...more about Looker
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
27
1.7168
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. ...more about Playboys
DVD from $5.09
(9 sellers)
28
1.5487
Ginley (Albert Finney) is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. ...more about Gumshoe
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.5478
A fifteen year marraige dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. ...more about Shoot the Moon
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.5296
The life of a teenager (Kathryn Erbe), in her last year of high school in Charleston, South Carolina, is upended when her mother (Jill Clayburgh) leaves her father (Albert Finney) and cuts all contact with her family. ...more about Rich in Love
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.3560
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. ...more about Under the Volcano
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.2554
Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect. when they first meet on the road in Europe. ...more about Two for the Road
DVD from $6.25
(11 sellers)
37
George Smith, an architect in San Francisco, is feeling "a bit flat" after completing his latest, less-than-fulfilling project: designing a warehouse for a commercial complex. ...more about Picasso Summer
- Not Available on DVD
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