TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of William Hurt.
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Birthdate: March 20, 1950
William Hurt
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1980s
2.9533
9
1990s
2.6894
17
2000s
2.6382
22
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.0625
3.0625
William Hurt Movie Rankings
1
3.1962After killing two criminals terrorizing a small diner, Tom is hailed as a local hero. When he tries to return to his normal life a mysterious man comes into town hinting to Tom that his past may be darker than he remembers. ...more about History of Violence
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Austin Film Critics Association - Best Supporting Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.29
(14 sellers)
2
3.1220Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. ...more about Body Heat
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
3
3.0669After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. ...more about Into the Wild
DVD from $10.95
(14 sellers)
4
2.9995
In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. ...more about Artificial Intelligence: AI
DVD from $3.99
(14 sellers)
5
2.9967
When a tough New Yorker's (Renee Zellweger) mother (Meryl Streep) is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother ...more about One True Thing
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
6
2.9816
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. ...more about Dark City
DVD from $5.48
(11 sellers)
7
2.9772
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. ...more about Broadcast News
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $7.10
(10 sellers)
8
2.9489
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. ...more about Kiss of the Spider Woman
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.9488
After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. ...more about Accidental Tourist
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
10
2.9336
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. ...more about Sunshine
DVD from $12.79
(11 sellers)
11
2.9231
An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving ...more about Changing Lanes
DVD from $2.10
(12 sellers)
12
2.9021
The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. ...more about Smoke
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
13
2.8771
From writer/director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award for Traffic, comes Syriana, a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry. ...more about Syriana
DVD from $5.00
(14 sellers)
14
2.8685
An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression. ...more about Altered States
DVD from $3.99
(11 sellers)
15
2.8560
A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse (which is played by Kevin Costner as noted in the Special ...more about Big Chill
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
16
2.7818
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
DVD from $7.02
(13 sellers)
17
2.7585
In the infancy of the CIA, agent Edward Wilson becomes suspicious and paranoid in Cold War America. As he becomes increasingly engrossed with is work Wilson sacirfices everything for his job, including his family. ...more about Good Shepherd
DVD from $4.95
(19 sellers)
18
2.6813
Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. ...more about Incredible Hulk
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.6631
The thrilling tale of an isolated village confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. ...more about Village
DVD from $4.05
(13 sellers)
20
2.6529
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. ...more about Doctor
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
21
2.6099
Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an 'angel expert', are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel ...more about Michael
DVD from $2.87
(11 sellers)
22
2.5787
In the near future, earth's fossil resources are about to be used up. ...more about Lost in Space
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
23
2.5575
The story follows a man (Costner) with a murderous alter ego (Hurt). Moore will play a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship. ...more about Mr. Brooks
DVD from $7.95
(16 sellers)
25
2.5251
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. ...more about Alice
DVD from $4.07
(14 sellers)
26
2.4999
Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. ...more about I Love You to Death
DVD from $2.12
(11 sellers)
27
2.4866
Started by Stanley Kubrick and finished by Spielberg, this project was adapted from Brian Aldiss's 1966 short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." The film explores the idea of programming a child robot so that he is able to love. ...more about A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.4493
A young woman (Juliette Lewis) moves into a new apartment that she inherited from her grandmother, who had died there in a bizarre accident. ...more about 4th Floor
DVD from $5.83
(5 sellers)
29
2.3008
American pharmaceutical executive Walter Richmond takes a business trip to Amsterdam, accompanied by his wife Cathryn and their 10-year-old daughter Melissa, who has been mute ever since an accident some time ago. ...more about Do Not Disturb
DVD from $7.21
(5 sellers)
30
2.2881
"The King" folllows a troubled man, recently discharged from the Navy, who returns to his childhood home in Corpus Christi, Texas to reunite with his father. ...more about King
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.1606
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. ...more about Gorky Park
DVD from $5.59
(10 sellers)
32
2.0684
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him. ...more about Big Brass Ring
DVD from $6.00
(4 sellers)
33
1.9889
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends. Unfortunately, due to the alimony payments he has to make to his ex-wife Leonora, the bank refuses to loan him the down payment. ...more about Mr. Wonderful
DVD from $1.96
(13 sellers)
35
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)
36
1.7001
In 1986, David Whitman came home, contaminated his wife and child, and watched them die. Years later, he leads a hazmat team investigating an industrial accident near Budapest. One contaminated man escaped. ...more about Contaminated Man
DVD from $7.23
(3 sellers)
37
1.6465
Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done. ...more about Trial by Jury
DVD from $5.99
(9 sellers)
38
1.5980
Josie elopes with Jack against her father's wishes. Her father follows her to the hotel where they are staying and forces Josie to go with him. Jack in turn follows resulting in an accident that leaves her father dead. ...more about Time of Destiny
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.5287
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. ...more about Proposition
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.5113
On a recent Halloween night four couples of differing backgrounds bring eight very different sets of hopes and aspirations to the dinner table of a Weehawken, New Jersey neighborhood party. ...more about Simian Line
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.4261
A well-educated psychiatrist (Eckhart) leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father (Nolte), a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. ...more about Neverwas
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.3637
Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. ...more about Second Best
- Not Available on DVD
46
THE BELIEVER helmer Henry Bean directs this black comedy about a man (Tim Robbins) unable to reconcile his love of New York City with the town's volume level. NOISE costars Bridget Moynahan, William Baldwin, and William Hurt. ...more about Noise
- Not Available on DVD
48
Dave is down. His wife lives in Washington, D.C.; his restaurant, the Auk, in an out-of-the-way Newfoundland inlet, is a bust; a drink is rarely out of reach. ...more about Rare Birds
- Not Available on DVD
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