TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Paul Newman.
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Birthdate: January 26, 1925
Paul Newman
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
2.1541
10
1960s
2.3467
19
1970s
2.3570
12
1980s
2.1008
7
1990s
2.4245
5
2000s
2.6230
5
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.8377
2.8377
Paul Newman Movie Rankings
1
3.5756Lucas “Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman) is charged with a petty theft he committed when he was drunk, and is sentenced to a prison camp where he is put on the chain-gang. ...more about Cool Hand Luke
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $2.87
(12 sellers)
2
3.4155Butch and Sundance finally rob one train too many. Now, with the law on their tail they must outsmart the cops and try to escape to Bolivia. ...more about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $8.26
(15 sellers)
3
3.3253Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) is a small time con artist during a big sting mistakenly steals from Doyle Lonnegan, a big-time crime boss with murderous tendencies. When Jonny’s partner dies he seeks the help of Henry Gandorff ( Paul Newman) to pull off a major scam on Doyle. ...more about Sting
DVD from $8.09
(16 sellers)
4
3.2533
"Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. ...more about Hustler
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $14.99
(11 sellers)
5
3.0685
Mike Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman) Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. ...more about Road to Perdition
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Chicago Film Critics Association 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
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama
DVD from $1.99
(12 sellers)
6
3.0192
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. ...more about Verdict
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $12.74
(11 sellers)
7
3.0099
Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service. ...more about Cars
DVD from $9.99
(20 sellers)
8
3.0023
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. ...more about Nobody's Fool
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $9.99
(3 sellers)
9
2.9940
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. ...more about Hud
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $6.34
(10 sellers)
10
2.9761
The player-coach of a nowhere small town hockey team must deal with an intractable owner, hostile crowds and on-ice thuggery in this warm-hearted and only slightly farcical look at ice hockey. ...more about Slap Shot
DVD from $8.11
(11 sellers)
11
2.9056
Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. ...more about Towering Inferno
DVD from $7.03
(12 sellers)
12
2.8993
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. ...more about Color of Money
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $6.39
(10 sellers)
13
2.8696
In this film more is said with just one look than in 100 cute one-liners. An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun play. ...more about Hombre
DVD from $6.88
(11 sellers)
14
2.8429
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams: A party is planned for the 65th birthday of family patriarch 'Big Daddy', but not everyone is in a festive mood. ...more about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $8.68
(15 sellers)
15
2.8028
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. ...more about Blaze
DVD from $7.35
(9 sellers)
16
2.7835
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. ...more about Long
DVD from $9.99
(11 sellers)
17
2.7358
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. ...more about Hudsucker Proxy
DVD from $4.60
(10 sellers)
18
2.7032
A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. ...more about Twilight
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
19
2.6979
Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illutrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics. ...more about Tell Them Who You Are
DVD from $6.99
(4 sellers)
20
2.6651
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. ...more about Message in a Bottle
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama/Romance
DVD from $2.87
(13 sellers)
21
2.6309
Legendary bank robber Henry Manning pushes his luck too far and ends up in prison, where he suffers a massive stroke. ...more about Where the Money Is
DVD from $20.99
(1 sellers)
22
2.6096
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...more about Sweet Bird of Youth
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
23
2.5400
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson. ...more about Winning
DVD from $3.92
(13 sellers)
24
2.5209
In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. General Leslie Groves was in overall command of it. ...more about Fat Man and Little Boy
DVD from $2.10
(9 sellers)
26
2.4095
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. ...more about Silver Chalice
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.4003
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. ...more about Left Handed Gun
DVD from $37.01
(12 sellers)
28
2.3950
Paul Newman plays the son of a long dead Mafia boss who is a simple liquor warehouse owner. ...more about Absence of Malice
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $10.23
(10 sellers)
29
2.3381
Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer. ...more about Buffalo Bill and the Indians
DVD from $5.50
(11 sellers)
30
2.2869
Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. ...more about MacKintosh Man
DVD from $37.01
(12 sellers)
31
2.2836
U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiance Sarah Sherman are attending a convention in Copenhagen. Michael is acting very suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries to defect to the other side. ...more about Torn Curtain
DVD from $9.41
(15 sellers)
32
2.0655
Rocky Granziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. ...more about Somebody Up There Likes Me
Actor Awards
- Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
DVD from $37.01
(12 sellers)
33
2.0605
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. ...more about Exodus
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
34
2.0505
Harper is one of the best detectives around. He is called by Elaine Sampson to find her missing husband. Harper reluctantly takes the case knowing that his job is putting his marriage in jeopardy. ...more about Harper
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
35
2.0114
A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. ...more about Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
DVD from $13.79
(8 sellers)
36
2.0099
Hank Stamper (Paul Newman) and his father, Henry Stamper (Henry Fonda) own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. ...more about Sometimes a Great Notion
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.0053
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. ...more about WUSA
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.9525
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. ...more about From the Terrace
DVD from $6.89
(11 sellers)
39
1.8701
Actor Awards
- Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Satellite Awards - Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
DVD from $12.03
(12 sellers)
40
1.8094
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WW II, it is a propaganda nightmare for the Allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. ...more about Secret War of Harry Frigg
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.6756
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...more about Fort Apache the Bronx
DVD from $1.96
(10 sellers)
42
1.6542
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. ...more about Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
DVD from $7.02
(9 sellers)
43
1.5852
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her hellion of a daughter. ...more about Drowning Pool
DVD from $37.01
(12 sellers)
46
1.0397
Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. ...more about Young Philadelphians
DVD from $37.01
(12 sellers)
47
0.8597
For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. ...more about Prize
- Not Available on DVD
48
0.4487
The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession. ...more about New Kind of Love
DVD from $3.90
(10 sellers)
49
The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". ...more about Helen Morgan Story
- Not Available on DVD
52
Today Lady Louise Lendale is 80 years old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy, all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in "Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. ...more about Lady L
- Not Available on DVD
53
A Mexican bandit, Juan Carrasco, spies a newlywed couple journeying through rugged country. He confronts them, rape and robbery on his mind, and the husband ends up dead. ...more about Outrage
- Not Available on DVD
54
Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. ...more about Rack
- Not Available on DVD
56
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. ...more about Until They Sail
- Not Available on DVD
57
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. ...more about What a Way to Go!
DVD from $6.07
(9 sellers)
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