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Birthdate: March 20, 1958
Holly Hunter
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.5731
8
1990s
3.0807
8
2000s
2.8019
16
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1005
3.1005
Holly Hunter Movie Rankings
1
3.5296A community of superheroes is forced to give up their crime fighting ways after a string of lawsuits. Several years later Mr. Incredible is desperate to see action again and begins secretly fighting bad guys, but when he walks into a superhero trap its up his family to save him. ...more about Incredibles
DVD from $12.99
(17 sellers)
2
3.2663Ada, accompanied by her daughter, is prepared to meet her new husband on the beaches of New Zealand, but he refuses to transport her beloved piano and sells it to a neighbor. In trade, Ada agrees to give him lessons and soon their relationship goes beyond platonic. ...more about Piano
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Australian Film Institute - Best Actress in a Lead Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $7.14
(11 sellers)
3
3.0039Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. ...more about Raising Arizona
DVD from $6.88
(14 sellers)
4
3.0001
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. ...more about O Brother
Actor Awards
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $10.98
(16 sellers)
5
2.9775
Criminal profiler and psychologist Dr Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) becomes entangled in the deadly mind game of a vicious copycat serial killer Peter Foley (William Mcnamara). ...more about Copycat
DVD from $9.48
(10 sellers)
6
2.9772
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. ...more about Broadcast News
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
DVD from $7.10
(10 sellers)
7
2.9612
Nine Lives is a moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. ...more about Nine Lives
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
8
2.9030
A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name Fuckhead, how she introduced him to heroin and their falling ...more about Jesus' Son
DVD from $9.59
(6 sellers)
9
2.8805
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady. ...more about Thirteen
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- 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
- Locarno International Film Festival - Best Actress
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
10
2.8786
L.A., real time. From her limo, the wealthy Lauren eavesdrops on her lover Rose's tryst with movie producer Alex Green. The assignation takes place in his company's screening room between meetings. ...more about Timecode
DVD from $6.00
(7 sellers)
11
2.8471
Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. ...more about Living Out Loud
Actor Awards
- American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
DVD from $9.50
(11 sellers)
12
2.8209
A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. ...more about Moonlight Mile
DVD from $10.98
(9 sellers)
13
2.7443
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. ...more about Firm
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
14
2.7403
An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems. The first story "This is Dr. ...more about Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Actor Awards
- Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
DVD from $9.99
(8 sellers)
15
2.7220
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. ...more about Home for the Holidays
DVD from $6.32
(12 sellers)
17
2.6349
A janitor at a summer camp is accidently burned severely from a prank. Years later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers. ...more about Burning
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.5309
Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together. ...more about Always
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
19
2.5006
Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. ...more about Life Less Ordinary
DVD from $6.33
(12 sellers)
20
2.4809
The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thorton) has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to try to seek redemption. ...more about Levity
DVD from $14.85
(7 sellers)
21
2.3153
Stacy Holt, an associate producer for a daytime talk show, is confounded by her boyfriend Derek's unwillingness to talk about his previous relationships. ...more about Little Black Book
DVD from $3.95
(12 sellers)
22
2.2522
A destitute Alaskan travel agent with a deranged wife finds the answer to his financial problems in the form of a get rich quick insurance scam involving a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office. ...more about Big White
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
23
2.0744
In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. ...more about Swing Shift
DVD from $2.87
(11 sellers)
24
2.0395
Rosanna Arquette informally interviews several contrasting actresses about how they cope with being a woman in the entertainment industry. ...more about Searching for Debra Winger
DVD from $4.80
(6 sellers)
25
1.7779
Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win, even her closest friends and relatives (e.g. ...more about Miss Firecracker
DVD from $5.71
(9 sellers)
26
1.6556
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. ...more about Once Around
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
27
1.0927
2 worker from a railway company realize that the company want to close the railroad track where they work. They steal an engine and travel thru America to the centre of the company to protest against the closing. ...more about End of the Line
- Not Available on DVD
28
0.1461
Story of a woman (Hunter) who comes to work as a housekeeper for a widower (Moriarty) and his grown son (Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who also loves her. ...more about Woman Wanted
- Not Available on DVD
29
The beautiful biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees: instead of machines she uses a simple sign language. Her research and competition with ignorant colleagues lets her overlook the amorous approaches of cellist Mark. ...more about Animal Behavior
- Not Available on DVD
31
The heroic story of a single Irish mother's love for her black illegitimate son, her fight to hold onto him against the backdrop of racist 1950's Dublin, Ireland, her pride in watching him become rock and roll legend Phil Lynott, her struggle to hold on ...more about My Boy
- Not Available on DVD
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