Ben Kingsley Movie Rankings
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 3.4007 out of 4 stars for Schindler's List
3.4007
A German businessman turns his factory into a refuge during WWII by hiring Jewish employees. It is estimated Schindler saved more than 1000 Polish Jews that would have undoubtedly been sent to concentration camps. ... more about Schindler's List
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
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2
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 3.3065 out of 4 stars for Gandhi
3.3065
A non-violent revolutionary that inspired India to win independence from Great Britain. ... more about Gandhi
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $9.55 
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3
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 3.0061 out of 4 stars for Searching for Bobby Fischer
3.0061
Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. ... more about Searching for Bobby Fischer
DVD from $7.18 
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4
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.9874 out of 4 stars for Sexy Beast
2.9874
Gal, a retired gangster, lives a happy life with his wife Deedee in a beatiful house in spain. Don Logan, a respected name with the mob and an old "friend" to Gal, suddenly shows up. ... more about Sexy Beast
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
British Independent Film Awards - Best Actor
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
European Film Awards - Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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5
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.9776 out of 4 stars for House of Sand and Fog
2.9776
Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. ... more about House of Sand and Fog
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
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6
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.9182 out of 4 stars for Sexy Beast
2.9182
The story of one man's dangerous journey from peace of mind to paranoid panic when he's lured out of an idyllic retirement back to the gangster life. ... more about Sexy Beast
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.8376 out of 4 stars for Bugsy
2.8376
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. ... more about Bugsy
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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8
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.8227 out of 4 stars for Sneakers
2.8227
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. ... more about Sneakers
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9
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.8049 out of 4 stars for Death and the Maiden
2.8049
Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. ... more about Death and the Maiden
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10
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.7863 out of 4 stars for Tuck Everlasting
2.7863
Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family who she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, they're immortal.They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth. Till the end of time, they will stay that way. ... more about Tuck Everlasting
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11
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.7758 out of 4 stars for Dave
2.7758
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. ... more about Dave
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12
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.7582 out of 4 stars for You Kill Me
2.7582
A hit-man has made some terrible mistakes and his mob needs to get him back on track. ... more about You Kill Me
Actor Awards
Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
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13
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.7350 out of 4 stars for Lucky Number Slevin
2.7350
Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). ... more about Lucky Number Slevin
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14
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.7292 out of 4 stars for Oliver Twist
2.7292
Director Roman Polanski and writer Ronald Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London. ... more about Oliver Twist
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15
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.6947 out of 4 stars for Maurice
2.6947
Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. ... more about Maurice
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16
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.6643 out of 4 stars for Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
2.6643
Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. ... more about Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
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17
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.6524 out of 4 stars for Rules of Engagement
2.6524
Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. ... more about Rules of Engagement
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18
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.6249 out of 4 stars for Species
2.6249
A group of four specialists are given the task of tracking down Sil. "She"'s part human, part alien, beautiful, strong, very dangerous and desperate to mate with a human. ... more about Species
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19
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.5772 out of 4 stars for What Planet Are You From?
2.5772
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. ... more about What Planet Are You From?
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20
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.5542 out of 4 stars for Elegy
2.5542
Charismatic professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. ... more about Elegy
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.5360 out of 4 stars for Assignment
2.5360
An American naval officer is recruited by the government to impersonate the most vicious and cold-blooded terrorist there is in order to catch him. ... more about Assignment
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22
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.4803 out of 4 stars for Fifty Dead Men Walking
2.4803
Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. ... more about Fifty Dead Men Walking
Not Available on DVD
23
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.4320 out of 4 stars for Suspect Zero
2.4320
When Dallas FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway violates serial killer Raymond Starkey's civil rights during an unorthodox arrest, Starkey goes free and Mackelway is demoted to a remote branch of the agency in Albuquerque. ... more about Suspect Zero
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24
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.4202 out of 4 stars for Wackness
2.4202
Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, and Josh Peck (DRAKE & JOSH) star in this comedy that played to great acclaim at Sundance in 2008. ... more about Wackness
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25
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.3955 out of 4 stars for Valiant
2.3955
The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain's Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. ... more about Valiant
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.3002 out of 4 stars for Photographing Fairies
2.3002
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. ... more about Photographing Fairies
Not Available on DVD
27
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.2932 out of 4 stars for Mrs. Harris
2.2932
Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. ... more about Mrs. Harris
Actor Awards
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
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28
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.2556 out of 4 stars for Betrayal
2.2556
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of ... more about Betrayal
Actor Awards
Evening Standard British Film Awards - Best Actor
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.2383 out of 4 stars for BloodRayne
2.2383
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. ... more about BloodRayne
Actor Awards
Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
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30
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.0765 out of 4 stars for Sound of Thunder
2.0765
"A Sound of Thunder" is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley's character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. ... more about Sound of Thunder
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.0547 out of 4 stars for Thunderbirds
2.0547
Having narrowly averted a major disaster on an oil rig, the Thunderbirds have just returned home to their secret base when TB5, their space based station, is critically damaged in a suspected meteor strike. ... more about Thunderbirds
DVD from $0.63 
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32
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 2.0259 out of 4 stars for Triumph of Love
2.0259
In a sun-drenched Italian villa where the madness of love has long been forbidden, one woman's passion is about to upend reason, bend genders and take every heart in the house prisoner. ... more about Triumph of Love
Not Available on DVD
33
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.9342 out of 4 stars for Turtle Diary
1.9342
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean. ... more about Turtle Diary
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.7484 out of 4 stars for Fear Is the Key
1.7484
Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. ... more about Fear Is the Key
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.6882 out of 4 stars for Last Legion
1.6882
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters. ... more about Last Legion
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36
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.6091 out of 4 stars for Slipstream
1.6091
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. ... more about Slipstream
DVD from $1.07 
(1 sellers)
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.5273 out of 4 stars for Confession
1.5273
A High powered NY litigator, hired to defend a murderer who avenged his young son's death, struggles with his own desires for success versus the moral wishes of his client to choose the path of truth. ... more about Confession
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.4961 out of 4 stars for Love Guru
1.4961
Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. ... more about Love Guru
DVD from $3.00 
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.4867 out of 4 stars for Without a Clue
1.4867
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. ... more about Without a Clue
DVD from $6.20 
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.4684 out of 4 stars for Pascali's Island
1.4684
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems. ... more about Pascali's Island
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.0951 out of 4 stars for BloodRayne
1.0951
BloodRayne takes you to another place and time to experience a world where good and evil battle it out -- with mankind as the very prize. ... more about BloodRayne
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 1.0000 out of 4 stars for Children
1.0000
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 0.1370 out of 4 stars for Parting Shots
0.1370
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. ... more about Parting Shots
DVD from $9.81 
(2 sellers)
45
Ben Kingsley scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Gambit
0.0001
Harry Dean's plan to steal a statue from one of the world's richest men is missing one final component -- the participation of a beautiful woman to act as his gambit. ... more about Gambit
Not Available on DVD
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Ben Kingsley scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Harem
0.0001
A young American woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheik and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves. ... more about Harem
Not Available on DVD
 
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Birthdate:
December 31, 1943

Ben Kingsley

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1970s
1
total ranking of 0.4610  0.4610
1980s
9
total ranking of 2.1691  2.1691
1990s
13
total ranking of 2.5685  2.5685
2000s
26
total ranking of 2.5904  2.5904
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.9570
Ben Kingsley is ranked overall as 2.9570 of of 4 stars
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