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Geoffrey Rush
Birthdate: July 6, 1951

Geoffrey Rush

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
0.0361
3
total ranking of 0.0361
1990s
2.7557
10
total ranking of 2.7557
2000s
2.9305
16
total ranking of 2.9305
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Geoffrey Rush is ranked overall as 3.2270 of of 4 stars3.2270

Geoffrey Rush Movie Rankings

1
Geoffrey Rush starring in Shakespeare in Love
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 3.4687 out of 4 stars for Shakespeare in Love3.4687
Young William Shakespeare has writer's block and is struggling with his new play. When Will meets Viola, he finds his muse, and the words seem to come effortlessly. Viola loves the theater and auditions as a boy to be on stage. ...more about Shakespeare in Love
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 - Comedy/Romance
  • Chlotrudis Awards - Best Supporting Actor
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
2
Geoffrey Rush starring in Shine
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 3.1728 out of 4 stars for Shine3.1728
After years of torment and a tumultuous childhood David Helgott stumbles into a pub and begins to play the piano, a task he hasn't done in more than 10 years. Slowly he begins to confront his past and begins to allow the music he loved to sooth is troubled soul. ...more about Shine
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Australian Film Institute - Best Actor in a Lead Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards - Best Actor - Male
  • Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
  • New York Film Critics Circle 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
  • Society of Texas Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
3
Geoffrey Rush starring in Lantana
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 3.0711 out of 4 stars for Lantana3.0711
The lives of several people are interwined in this darkly deceptive movie. This Australian drama starts out with the death of an unidentified woman. However, few answers were uncovered during the initial investigation by the police. ...more about Lantana
4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 3.0349 out of 4 stars for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl3.0349
Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. ...more about Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Actor Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
5
Munich (2005)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 3.0143 out of 4 stars for Munich3.0143
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. ...more about Munich
Actor Awards
  • Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
6
Misérables, Les (1998)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.9748 out of 4 stars for Misérables2.9748
Jean Valjean, an ex-convict has reinvented himself becoming a respected businessman and mayor. Always on the run from police officer Javert, Jean Valjean promises to care for the daughter of a prostitute. He raises her as his own and on the eve of the revolution all storylines converge. ...more about Misérables
7
Elizabeth (1998)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.9408 out of 4 stars for Elizabeth2.9408
The story of Elizabeth's ascendency to the throne, the plot of the movie is full of palace intrigues, attempted assassinations and executions. The movie starts with England divided by faith, Protestant vs. Catholic. ...more about Elizabeth
Actor Awards
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Chlotrudis Awards - Best Supporting Actor
8
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.8941 out of 4 stars for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2.8941
Once again thrown into the world of the supernatural, Captain Jack Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. ...more about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
9
Quills (2000)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.8932 out of 4 stars for Quills2.8932
This film directed by Philip Kaufman, is about a French notorious writer who writes books about sexual situations. Geoffrey Rush plays the Marquis de Sade. Kate Winslet Madeline LeCrec, de Sade's laundress who smuggles his last writings out of the asylum. ...more about Quills
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
  • Chicago 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
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
  • Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
  • Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • 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
10
Frida (2002)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.8712 out of 4 stars for Frida2.8712
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. ...more about Frida
11
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.8477 out of 4 stars for Intolerable Cruelty2.8477
Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything. ...more about Intolerable Cruelty
12
Tailor of Panama, The (2001)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.8251 out of 4 stars for Tailor of Panama2.8251
John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. ...more about Tailor of Panama
13
Mystery Men (1999)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.7647 out of 4 stars for Mystery Men2.7647
In order to generate more endorsement revenue, Champion City's resident superhero Captain Amazing arranges for the release of supervillian Casanova Frankenstein, only to be captured by him. ...more about Mystery Men
14
Candy (2006)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.6677 out of 4 stars for Candy2.6677
Dan, a poet, falls in love Candy, an artist. Both are drawn to the bohemian, live in the moment, type lifestyle. The couple becomes addicted to each other and heroin. Their dependency one each other grows with their dependency on heroin. ...more about Candy
Actor Awards
  • Australian Film Institute - Best Supporting Actor
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
15
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (2004)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.6568 out of 4 stars for Life and Death of Peter Sellers2.6568
Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. ...more about Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Actor Awards
  • British Independent Film Awards - Best Actor
  • Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
  • Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
16
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5969 out of 4 stars for Children of the Revolution2.5969
Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now ... ...more about Children of the Revolution
17
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5730 out of 4 stars for House on Haunted Hill2.5730
When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. ...more about House on Haunted Hill
18
Banger Sisters, The (2002)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5478 out of 4 stars for Banger Sisters2.5478
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
19
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5385 out of 4 stars for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2.5385
Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones' locker, while the terrifying ghost ...more about Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
20
Swimming Upstream (2003)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5242 out of 4 stars for Swimming Upstream2.5242
The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. ...more about Swimming Upstream
Actor Awards
  • Australian Cinematographers Society - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Australian Cinematographers Society - Best Actor - Male
  • Australian Cinematographers Society - Best Actor
  • Australian Film Institute - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards - Best Actor - Male
  • IF Awards - Best Actor
21
Ned Kelly (2003)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.5240 out of 4 stars for Ned Kelly2.5240
Based on the book by Roberts Drewe, this is the story of Australian gunslinger and outlaw, Ned Kelly and his Kelly Gang, famous for their many robberies from 1878-1880. ...more about Ned Kelly
22
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 2.3611 out of 4 stars for Elizabeth: The Golden Age2.3611
An exploration of the relationship between Elizabeth I (Blanchett) and the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen). ...more about Elizabeth: The Golden Age
23
Swimming Upstream (2005)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 1.8620 out of 4 stars for Swimming Upstream1.8620
Swimming Upstream tells the compelling and inspirational true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man form a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion swimmer. ...more about Swimming Upstream
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Starstruck (1982)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined 1.3012 out of 4 stars for Starstruck1.3012
25
Call Me Sal (1996)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
27
Hoodwink (1981)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Twelfth Night (1987)
No Reviews Available
29
Little Bit of Soul, A (1998)
Geoffrey Rush scores a combined zero out of 4 stars for Little Bit of Soul0.0001
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. ...more about Little Bit of Soul
Actor Awards
  • Australian Film Institute - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role