Sean Penn Movie Rankings
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.2895 out of 4 stars for Milk
3.2895
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. ... more about Milk
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.2370 out of 4 stars for Dead Man Walking
3.2370
Honoring the request of a lonely and desperate man, Sister Helen Prejean writes to Matthew Poncelet, the condemned killer of two teenage lovers, and is wholly unprepared for the relationship which will follow. ... more about Dead Man Walking
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $2.68 
(7 sellers)
3
Sean Penn scores a combined 3.2363 out of 4 stars for Being John Malkovich
3.2363
Craig discovers a secret passage, at his new job, which leads into actor John Malkovich's head. Craig begins renting and charging for rides into Malkovich. Soon he realizes the more time he spends there the more control over Malkovich he has. ... more about Being John Malkovich
DVD from $1.99 
(6 sellers)
4
Sean Penn scores a combined 3.1177 out of 4 stars for Mystic River
3.1177
Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). ... more about Mystic River
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Central Ohio Film Critics Association - 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
IFTA Awards - Best International Actor
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Vancouver Film Critics Circle - Best Actor
DVD from $0.48 
(7 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.0808 out of 4 stars for Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3.0808
'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
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.0427 out of 4 stars for 21 Grams
3.0427
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack ... more about 21 Grams
Actor Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
DVD from $1.12 
(6 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.0268 out of 4 stars for Casualties of War
3.0268
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. ... more about Casualties of War
DVD from $1.88 
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Sean Penn scores a combined 3.0104 out of 4 stars for Thin Red Line
3.0104
An American Army unit is stationed in Japan fighting the Battle of Guadalcanal Island in WWII. The film explores how the men form a close family-like bond and go from fighting for their country to fighting for their lives and the life of the man next to them. ... more about Thin Red Line
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.9908 out of 4 stars for Carlito's Way
2.9908
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. ... more about Carlito's Way
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.9725 out of 4 stars for Game
2.9725
Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. ... more about Game
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.9164 out of 4 stars for Before Night Falls
2.9164
Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. ... more about Before Night Falls
DVD from $6.67 
(6 sellers)
12
Sean Penn scores a combined 2.9019 out of 4 stars for Sweet and Lowdown
2.9019
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. ... more about Sweet and Lowdown
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
DVD from $4.10 
(0 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.8375 out of 4 stars for Assassination of Richard Nixon
2.8375
Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. ... more about Assassination of Richard Nixon
Actor Awards
Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
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(5 sellers)
15
Sean Penn scores a combined 2.7892 out of 4 stars for This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
2.7892
After the American playwright and actor Sam Shepard had played the role of the ghost in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, Shepard invited the filmmaker to document rehearsals for his The Late Henry Moss, that he staged with Nick Nolte and Sean Penn in leading ... more about This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
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(3 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.7840 out of 4 stars for Hurlyburly
2.7840
Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios. ... more about Hurlyburly
Actor Awards
Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $3.52 
(4 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.7823 out of 4 stars for Interpreter
2.7823
Escalating events begin when U.N. translator Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. ... more about Interpreter
DVD from $0.89 
(8 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.7568 out of 4 stars for U Turn
2.7568
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. ... more about U Turn
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(5 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.6702 out of 4 stars for At Close Range
2.6702
A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties. ... more about At Close Range
DVD from $4.86 
(2 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.5338 out of 4 stars for Colors
2.5338
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear. ... more about Colors
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(6 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.5176 out of 4 stars for Bad Boys
2.5176
A delinquent held in juvenile detention for the murder of a noted youth gang member awaits a showdown with the dead man's vengeful brother in the deadly prison environment. ... more about Bad Boys
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4942 out of 4 stars for Pauly Shore Is Dead
2.4942
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. ... more about Pauly Shore Is Dead
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(3 sellers)
23
Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4936 out of 4 stars for She's So Lovely
2.4936
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. ... more about She's So Lovely
DVD from $3.77 
(4 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4883 out of 4 stars for I Am Sam
2.4883
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. ... more about I Am Sam
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $2.92 
(7 sellers)
25
Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4826 out of 4 stars for Up At The Villa
2.4826
Over a handful of days in 1938, a penniless English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is the newly-appointed governor of Bengal, accepts a pistol that he presses on her for safety, takes ... more about Up At The Villa
DVD from $28.99 
(0 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4626 out of 4 stars for Hugo Pool
2.4626
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano stars as Hugo Dugay) who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease. ... more about Hugo Pool
DVD from $6.49 
(2 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4444 out of 4 stars for Taps
2.4444
An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander (George C. Scott). ... more about Taps
DVD from $5.90 
(4 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.4181 out of 4 stars for Racing with the Moon
2.4181
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. ... more about Racing with the Moon
DVD from $3.94 
(4 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.3219 out of 4 stars for Weight of Water
2.3219
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. ... more about Weight of Water
DVD from $3.00 
(3 sellers)
30
Sean Penn scores a combined 2.3103 out of 4 stars for What Just Happened
2.3103
Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. ... more about What Just Happened
DVD from $2.66 
(6 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.2748 out of 4 stars for We're No Angels
2.2748
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. ... more about We're No Angels
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.1905 out of 4 stars for It's All About Love
2.1905
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. ... more about It's All About Love
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(3 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.1314 out of 4 stars for Falcon and the Snowman
2.1314
The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his ... more about Falcon and the Snowman
DVD from $2.35 
(6 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.0969 out of 4 stars for State of Grace
2.0969
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. ... more about State of Grace
DVD from $3.25 
(2 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 2.0062 out of 4 stars for All the King's Men
2.0062
An idealistic southern politician who appeals to the common man whilst effectively playing dirty politics slowly becomes corrupted by the system. ... more about All the King's Men
DVD from $1.96 
(5 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 1.8470 out of 4 stars for Crossing Over
1.8470
The US offers hope but that often comes at a price. Many can earn citizenship legally through a lengthy bureaucratic process, but others find themselves out of luck in a country where virtually anything can be bought. Sex, violence and betrayal become their currency. ... more about Crossing Over
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Sean Penn scores a combined 1.8361 out of 4 stars for Weight of Water
1.8361
Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. ... more about Weight of Water
Not Available on DVD
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Sean Penn scores a combined 1.7880 out of 4 stars for Summerspell
1.7880
Not Available on DVD
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Sean Penn scores a combined 1.4273 out of 4 stars for Crackers
1.4273
Garvey (Jack Warden) is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. ... more about Crackers
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Sean Penn scores a combined 1.4155 out of 4 stars for Beaver Trilogy
1.4155
It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. ... more about Beaver Trilogy
Not Available on DVD
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Sean Penn scores a combined 0.8337 out of 4 stars for Shanghai Surprise
0.8337
Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock (Madonna) is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. ... more about Shanghai Surprise
Actor Awards
Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
DVD from $2.11 
(4 sellers)
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Sean Penn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for In Search of Captain Zero
0.0001
Surfer and one time drug smuggler, Allan Weisbecker's search for lifelong buddy Christopher, rumored to be living somewhere in Central America, so they can share their dream of the "Endless Summer" takes him through sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing ... more about In Search of Captain Zero
Not Available on DVD
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Sean Penn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Loved
0.0001
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Sean Penn
Birthdate:
August 17, 1960

Sean Penn

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1980s
13
total ranking of 2.5414  2.5414
1990s
14
total ranking of 3.1026  3.1026
2000s
25
total ranking of 2.7528  2.7528
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
3.3121
Sean Penn is ranked overall as 3.3121 of of 4 stars
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