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Frances McDormand
Birthdate: June 23, 1957

Frances McDormand

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.6857
5
total ranking of 2.6857
1990s
2.7922
14
total ranking of 2.7922
2000s
3.1010
14
total ranking of 3.1010
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Frances McDormand is ranked overall as 3.2113 of of 4 stars3.2113

Frances McDormand Movie Rankings

1
Frances McDormand starring in Almost Famous
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.3642 out of 4 stars for Almost Famous3.3642
A young, aspiring journalist is assigned to go on tour with the new rock group 'Stillwater.' As he becomes more involved with the group, he loses sight of his assignment and inadvertently learns about love, life and rock 'n' roll. ...more about Almost Famous
Actor Awards
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Florida Film Critics Circle 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
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
  • Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
2
Frances McDormand starring in Lone Star
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.1440 out of 4 stars for Lone Star3.1440
John Sayles' murder-mystery explores interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas. Sam Deeds is the local sheriff who is called to investigate a 40-year-old skeleton found in the desert.... ...more about Lone Star
Actor Awards
  • Lone Star Film & Television Awards - Best Supporting Actress
3
Frances McDormand starring in Blood Simple.
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.1408 out of 4 stars for Blood Simple.3.1408
A Texas bar-owner hires a P.I. to kill his cheating wife and her lover, but the investigator has plans of his own. By double-crossing his employer he can keep the money, but when the plan goes sour it's every man for him self. ...more about Blood Simple.
4
Short Cuts (1993)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.1196 out of 4 stars for Short Cuts3.1196
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. ...more about Short Cuts
5
Fargo (1996)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.1161 out of 4 stars for Fargo3.1161
Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan to hire someone to kidnap his wife and demand ransom from her wealthy father, to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. ...more about Fargo
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
  • American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
  • Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actress
  • Empire Awards, UK - Best Actress
  • Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
  • National Board of Review, USA - Best Actress
  • San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  • Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
6
Wonder Boys (2000)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.0236 out of 4 stars for Wonder Boys3.0236
Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor (McDormand) pregnant. ...more about Wonder Boys
Actor Awards
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress
7
Raising Arizona (1987)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 3.0039 out of 4 stars for Raising Arizona3.0039
Recidivist 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
8
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.9816 out of 4 stars for Man Who Wasn't There2.9816
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. ...more about Man Who Wasn't There
Actor Awards
  • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actress
9
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8936 out of 4 stars for Something's Gotta Give2.8936
Harry Langer (Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica (Keaton). ...more about Something's Gotta Give
10
North Country (2005)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8712 out of 4 stars for North Country2.8712
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota. ...more about North Country
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an 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
  • Satellite Awards - Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role, Drama
  • Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
11
Primal Fear (1996)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8658 out of 4 stars for Primal Fear2.8658
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest. ...more about Primal Fear
12
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8334 out of 4 stars for Mississippi Burning2.8334
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. ...more about Mississippi Burning
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
  • National Board of Review, USA - Best Supporting Actress
13
Friends With Money (2006)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8152 out of 4 stars for Friends With Money2.8152
In "Friends With Money" Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast, life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort in their lives and have now settled into a life of designer clothes, char ...more about Friends With Money
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Darkman (1990)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.8022 out of 4 stars for Darkman2.8022
A scientist is attacked by gangsters, who blow up his lab, with him inside it. He is presumed dead, but luckily he survives, horribly deformed and unrecognizable. ...more about Darkman
15
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.7998 out of 4 stars for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day2.7998
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (played by Ms. McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must – for the first time in two decades – seize the day. ...more about Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
16
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.7687 out of 4 stars for Laurel Canyon2.7687
Newly graduated psychiatrist Sam and his fiancee Alex move to Los Angeles for Sam's residency, into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon. ...more about Laurel Canyon
Actor Awards
  • Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actress
17
City by the Sea (2002)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.7083 out of 4 stars for City by the Sea2.7083
New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. ...more about City by the Sea
18
Palookaville (1995)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.7072 out of 4 stars for Palookaville2.7072
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. ...more about Palookaville
19
Paradise Road (1997)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.6246 out of 4 stars for Paradise Road2.6246
The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese concentration camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, organizes a vocal band in spite of their guards resistance. ...more about Paradise Road
20
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.5315 out of 4 stars for Beyond Rangoon2.5315
Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. ...more about Beyond Rangoon
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Butcher's Wife, The (1991)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.5014 out of 4 stars for Butcher's Wife2.5014
A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. ...more about Butcher's Wife
22
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.4992 out of 4 stars for Hidden Agenda2.4992
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... ...more about Hidden Agenda
23
Laurel Canyon (2003)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.2778 out of 4 stars for Laurel Canyon2.2778
A rigorously honest exploration of relationships between people with wildly divergent world views. ...more about Laurel Canyon
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 2.0395 out of 4 stars for Searching for Debra Winger2.0395
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
25
Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.9208 out of 4 stars for Johnny Skidmarks1.9208
Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. ...more about Johnny Skidmarks
26
Chattahoochee (1989)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.7883 out of 4 stars for Chattahoochee1.7883
An American war hero attempts suicide and ends up in Chattahoochee State Mental Hospital. But he realise that doctors in hospital are humiliating patients. ...more about Chattahoochee
27
Crimewave (1985)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.5441 out of 4 stars for Crimewave1.5441
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. ...more about Crimewave
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Aeon Flux (2005)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.5383 out of 4 stars for Aeon Flux1.5383
In this futuristic sci-fi thriller set 400 years in the future, Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the top underground operative at war with the totalitarian regime governing what appears to be a perfect society. ...more about Aeon Flux
  • Not Available on DVD
29
Passed Away (1992)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.3630 out of 4 stars for Passed Away1.3630
When Jack Scanlan passes away just before telling his son, Johnny what was really important in life, Johnny begins to wonder if he's let life pass him by. With the funeral as backdrop, all the Scanlans appear, each with an interesting situation. ...more about Passed Away
  • Not Available on DVD
30
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver Country (1993)
Frances McDormand scores a combined 1.2830 out of 4 stars for Luck1.2830
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. ...more about Luck
31
Bleeding Hearts (1994)
No Reviews Available
32
Last Night (2004/III)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
33
Upheaval (2001)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD