TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of James Woods.
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Birthdate: April 18, 1947
James Woods
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
0.3628
1
1970s
2.1608
9
1980s
2.5483
14
1990s
2.7023
21
2000s
2.5592
16
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8762
2.8762
James Woods Movie Rankings
1
3.1123Spanning nearly 40 years the film chronicles the lives of a group of Jewish-American gangsters though the early 1900's to their reunion in 1968. ...more about Once Upon a Time in America
DVD from $10.00
(13 sellers)
2
3.0791This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. ...more about Casino
DVD from $7.99
(16 sellers)
3
3.0537A sleazy television producer stumbles upon a program that broadcasts snuff films called, "Videodrome." As he becomes increasingly obsessed with the program, it seems his own sick fantasies are coming to life and the line between TV and reality may have just been crossed. ...more about Videodrome
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
4
3.0427
Streisand, a political activist, and Redford, in the military, meet several times starting in college and form an unlikely relationship which is disapproved of by each of their peers. ...more about Way We Were
DVD from $3.92
(14 sellers)
5
2.9903
Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. ...more about Contact
DVD from $5.50
(14 sellers)
6
2.9500
Stolen from his father’s side as an infant, Hercules must prove to be a hero to rejoin his family on Mount Olympus. However, if Hercules takes his rightful place Hedes' 18-year mission to destroy Zeus will fall apart. ...more about Hercules
DVD from $17.87
(9 sellers)
7
2.9079
After the suicide death of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbon family descend into a deep melancholy and eventually become isolated socially and physically by their parents (Woods, Turner) within their small-town Michigan house. ...more about Virgin Suicides
Actor Awards
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $5.68
(12 sellers)
8
2.8973
The film chronicles the story of former President Richard Nixon from childhood, through his political career and his Presidential resignation in 1974. ...more about Nixon
DVD from $8.91
(9 sellers)
9
2.8556
Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game. His big brother George has also made a new friend, Will, so Stuart is feeing lonely. ...more about Stuart Little 2
DVD from $5.24
(11 sellers)
10
2.8341
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...more about Night Moves
DVD from $12.71
(10 sellers)
11
2.8175
Bobbie is an addict and small-time thief. When one of his jobs goes bad, Mel is called in to patch him up. Mel offers him a chance at a bigger score. ...more about Another Day in Paradise
DVD from $4.02
(9 sellers)
12
2.7854
Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a pair of cops for broken brake-lights. ...more about Onion Field
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.15
(12 sellers)
13
2.7572
Based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. ...more about Surf's Up
DVD from $7.95
(19 sellers)
14
2.7534
Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. ...more about True Crime
DVD from $5.99
(10 sellers)
15
2.7152
This documentary chronicles Jerry Harvey's emergence as a brilliant programmer at Z Channel, one of the country's first pay cable stations. ...more about Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
16
2.7097
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. ...more about Any Given Sunday
DVD from $3.62
(15 sellers)
17
2.6941
In the year 2065, the next great assault against an invading race of phantom-like aliens is about to be launched. Dr. ...more about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
DVD from $5.99
(16 sellers)
18
2.6711
A mysterious cat is the linking element in three horror stories by Stephen King. There's a tennis pro who's forced to play a deadly game, when he is caught fooling around with the mobsters wife. A stop smoking clinic that REALLY means it. ...more about Cat's Eye
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
19
2.6670
In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. ...more about Northfork
DVD from $17.99
(5 sellers)
20
2.6513
The naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. ...more about General's Daughter
DVD from $3.90
(14 sellers)
21
2.6394
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. ...more about Diggstown
DVD from $5.99
(10 sellers)
23
2.5815
Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise's girlfriend, Jessie, who's somewhere in Mexico. ...more about Against All Odds
DVD from $3.91
(12 sellers)
24
2.5604
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. ...more about Riding in Cars with Boys
DVD from $2.12
(12 sellers)
25
2.5485
Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods), of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. ...more about Ghosts of Mississippi
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $2.19
(10 sellers)
26
2.5178
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure. Immediately, John Q. rushes Michael to the hospital's emergency room for a transplant. Unfortunately, the insurance would not cover his son's transplant. ...more about John Q
DVD from $7.35
(11 sellers)
27
2.4964
Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. ...more about Pretty Persuasion
DVD from $1.45
(10 sellers)
28
2.4909
The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formitive years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie's life, work, and loves are followed. ...more about Chaplin
DVD from $9.99
(6 sellers)
29
2.4084
Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer ...more about Be Cool
DVD from $9.27
(15 sellers)
30
2.3564
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. ...more about Killer: A Journal of Murder
Actor Awards
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $8.80
(3 sellers)
31
2.3267
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. ...more about Getaway
DVD from $4.89
(12 sellers)
32
2.2982
Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out, but the exorcism doesn't go as planned. ...more about Scary Movie 2
DVD from $7.02
(14 sellers)
33
2.2794
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. ...more about Play It To the Bone
DVD from $5.99
(9 sellers)
34
2.2215
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. ...more about True Believer
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
35
2.2136
Nick Lang is a famous actor, well know for his action movies. For the next film he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his roll. Thus he teams up with the reluctant N.Y. cop John Moss. ...more about Hard Way
DVD from $4.19
(12 sellers)
36
2.1501
Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. ...more about Kicked in the Head
DVD from $6.39
(7 sellers)
37
2.0668
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. ...more about Boost
DVD from $6.62
(11 sellers)
38
2.0653
Pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmermann is paired with Valnikov, a romantic detective of Russian origin who is going through a midlife crisis. They fall in love while solving the case of the kidnapping of a socialite's pet dog. ...more about Black Marble
DVD from $6.39
(8 sellers)
39
2.0637
Lloyd Hopkins, a hard-boiled American police detective is on the trail of a mass murderer who is victimizing women in Los Angeles. ...more about Cop
DVD from $7.39
(11 sellers)
40
1.9895
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. ...more about Immediate Family
DVD from $10.23
(9 sellers)
41
1.9204
Alex Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase his. Despite of all this he cannot stop gambling. ...more about Gambler
DVD from $8.97
(6 sellers)
42
1.9131
Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. ...more about Eyewitness
DVD from $4.86
(5 sellers)
43
1.8834
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. ...more about Best Seller
DVD from $7.60
(9 sellers)
44
1.6783
Ray Quick is an ex-CIA bomb expert now living as an high-tech outsider somewhere in Miami, Florida. May Munro has heard of his skills and tries over and over to convince Ray to bomb the guys who killed her parents once. Ray begins to overshadow May. ...more about Specialist
DVD from $2.87
(14 sellers)
45
1.6751
A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President. ...more about End Game
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
48
1.3683
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. ...more about Straight Talk
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
51
1.0273
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life. ...more about Joshua Then and Now
- Not Available on DVD
53
The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. ...more about Ark
- Not Available on DVD
54
Sam Shepard's coming of age drama about a dirt-poor 1920's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life. ...more about Curse of the Starving Class
- Not Available on DVD
59
Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps and then de-programs him. ...more about Split Image
- Not Available on DVD
60
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. ...more about Visitors
- Not Available on DVD
61
Rolie Polie Olie, the robotic children's character created by William Joyce and made popular in his books, has become a favorite of children through his show on Playhouse Disney. GREAT DEFENDER OF FUN is Olie's first full length movie and it takes place on Zowie's birthday. ...more about Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
DVD from $9.27
(8 sellers)
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