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Birthdate: October 4, 1946
Susan Sarandon
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
2.3559
12
1980s
2.4741
11
1990s
3.1772
17
2000s
2.6791
23
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1320
3.1320
Susan Sarandon Movie Rankings
1
3.2943A studio executive, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), is the person able to make films possible by reviewing pitches that are presented to him. When he rejects a writer’s work, the writer is upset and sends threatening postcards to Griffin. ...more about Player
DVD from $12.79
(9 sellers)
2
3.2608A washed-up minor league catcher is traded to the 'Durham Bulls' to help train the team's wild pitcher. Both men become involved with a groupie that has a reputation of bringing out the best in a player. ...more about Bull Durham
Actor Awards
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $4.25
(12 sellers)
3
3.1371A caring nun receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate trying to find help to avoid execution for murder. ...more about Dead Man Walking
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actress - Drama
- Chlotrudis 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
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.86
(13 sellers)
4
3.1320
Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. ...more about Thelma & Louise
DVD from $4.12
(15 sellers)
5
3.1124
Brad and Janet are stranded in the mansion of a crazy, transsexual, transvestite scientist on the night he reveals his creation. ...more about Rocky Horror Picture Show
DVD from $5.84
(13 sellers)
6
3.0764
With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. ...more about Little Women
DVD from $3.95
(13 sellers)
7
3.0564
Where a young girl met and fell in love with a handsome prince. News of this romance upsets his mother, the evil queen. ...more about Enchanted
DVD from $10.95
(14 sellers)
8
2.8837
Igby goes down is a personal tale about a 17 year old misfit boy who copes with his mother's cancer and his father's insanity by pursuing relationships with older women. ...more about Igby Goes Down
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
9
2.8451
Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her husband turns up with drugs he has stolen from the Mafia. ...more about Atlantic City
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Genie Awards - Best Performance by a Foreign Actress
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $5.56
(11 sellers)
10
2.8444
When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq, his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son. ...more about In the Valley of Elah
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.8209
A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. ...more about Moonlight Mile
Actor Awards
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
DVD from $10.98
(9 sellers)
12
2.7875
A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema, from negative to positive reflections of gay characters and the troubles of actors and actresses. ...more about Celluloid Closet
DVD from $19.17
(11 sellers)
13
2.7754
In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. ...more about Cradle Will Rock
DVD from $7.47
(10 sellers)
14
2.7728
Fed up with her small-town Bay City existence, Adele August leaves her family and second husband and heads for Beverley Hills with her daughter. ...more about Anywhere But Here
DVD from $6.39
(12 sellers)
15
2.7688
1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville - New Orleans' red-light district. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake with photographer Ernest J. ...more about Pretty Baby
DVD from $8.97
(11 sellers)
16
2.7441
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. ...more about Stepmom
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actress - Drama
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $7.49
(11 sellers)
17
2.7201
The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. ...more about Hunger
DVD from $6.29
(13 sellers)
18
2.7194
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. ...more about Joe
DVD from $6.27
(10 sellers)
19
2.7155
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations ...more about Joe Gould's Secret
DVD from $10.99
(1 sellers)
20
2.7032
A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. ...more about Twilight
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
21
2.6686
Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. ...more about Witches of Eastwick
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $4.01
(15 sellers)
22
2.6590
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". ...more about Illuminata
DVD from $11.99
(1 sellers)
23
2.6577
Ten years in the making, this feature-length documentary was filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. ...more about Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
DVD from $20.85
(5 sellers)
24
2.6398
John Clark is a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife and a loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. ...more about Shall We Dance
DVD from $7.02
(13 sellers)
25
2.6357
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie (Jude Law) is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. ...more about Alfie
DVD from $4.89
(11 sellers)
26
2.6201
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. ...more about Dry White Season
DVD from $5.80
(9 sellers)
27
2.5863
Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. ...more about Bob Roberts
DVD from $7.15
(8 sellers)
28
2.5828
Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon) a 43-year-old waitress with a fixation on Marilyn Monroe. ...more about White Palace
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
29
2.5478
When fiftysomething Suzette loses her job as a bartender she decides to make a road trip to visit her old friend Vinnie who she hasn't seen since their days as groupies back in the day. ...more about Banger Sisters
DVD from $6.09
(12 sellers)
30
2.5216
A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident. ...more about Safe Passage
DVD from $14.85
(6 sellers)
31
2.5113
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Modano, a Mafia hitman. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyett is buried. ...more about Client
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actress - Suspense
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.49
(13 sellers)
32
2.4869
After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew Baylor is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. ...more about Elizabethtown
DVD from $8.31
(12 sellers)
33
2.3753
A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. ...more about Light Sleeper
DVD from $3.25
(9 sellers)
34
2.2816
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1930s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. ...more about Front Page
DVD from $8.11
(10 sellers)
35
2.2593
Set in turn of the century New York, Tuccio (Turturro) is the resident playwright of the New York City repertory company who offers his new challenging play "Illuminata" to the company's owners who initially reject it. ...more about Illuminata
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.2587
"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)
37
2.1787
In the Christmas Eve in New York, the lonely divorced publisher Rose Harrison (Susan Sarandon) expects for a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimer. ...more about Noel
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
38
2.1772
Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. ...more about Speed Racer
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.0899
Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. ...more about January Man
DVD from $6.29
(11 sellers)
40
1.9247
Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. ...more about Romance & Cigarettes
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.8563
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher (Thornton), a man who made high school hell for generations of students. ...more about Mr. Woodcock
DVD from $7.95
(14 sellers)
42
1.7861
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War. ...more about Great Waldo Pepper
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.6405
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than ...more about Last Party 2000
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
45
1.5759
This big-screen musical is being described as "Pennies From Heaven" meets "The Honeymooners," as set in Bensonhurst, N.Y. In it, a two-timing husband must choose between his mistress and his beleaguered wife. ...more about Romance and Cigarettes
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.5569
John Cassavetes plays husband to his real-life wife, Gena Rowland, and father of Molly Ringwald. His marriage on the rocks, he searches for a more meaningful experience returning to his roots in Greece. ...more about Tempest
Actor Awards
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actress
DVD from $9.56
(10 sellers)
47
1.4757
Beautiful Noelle Page meets dashing WWII American pilot Larry Douglas in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead Larry abandons her. In the United States, successful Catherine Alexander meets Larry Douglas and they marry. ...more about Other Side of Midnight
DVD from $12.79
(10 sellers)
48
1.4657
Sophie Hartley (Susan Sarandon) is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's (Sam Neill) beautiful co-worker, Mara (Emily Blunt), wants her children, her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. ...more about Irresistible
DVD from $5.99
(8 sellers)
51
1.2738
Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. ...more about Sweet Hearts Dance
DVD from $4.99
(3 sellers)
52
1.2556
Judith Singer is a housewife, out of the journalism business for many years. When a dentist she has been seeing (who has a strong bedside manner even while female patients are still in the chair) is found murdered, she finds that a neighbor is a suspect. ...more about Compromising Positions
- Not Available on DVD
56
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. ...more about Buddy System
- Not Available on DVD
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