Billy Bob Thornton Movie Rankings
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.1824 out of 4 stars for Sling Blade
3.1824
The tale of Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man faced with a complex moral dilemma. As a child, Karl was severely abused by his fanatically religious parents, who considered him a punishment from God. ... more about Sling Blade
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor
Kansas City 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
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.0744 out of 4 stars for Apostle
3.0744
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. ... more about Apostle
DVD from $6.75 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.0465 out of 4 stars for Monster's Ball
3.0465
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank (played by Billy Bob Thornton), who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia (Halle Berry). ... more about Monster's Ball
Actor Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
DVD from $2.00 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.0454 out of 4 stars for Simple Plan
3.0454
Hank and his two friends discover a crashed plane with a dead pilot and 4 million dollars in cash. The men take the money and leave the body. Soon the friends begin to mistrust each other and suspect those around them. ... more about Simple Plan
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
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 in a Motion Picture - Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.0232 out of 4 stars for Friday Night Lights
3.0232
A straight arrow coach leads his team to the 1988 Texas state semifinals in the west Texas city of Odessa, where high school football is king. ... more about Friday Night Lights
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 3.0194 out of 4 stars for One False Move
3.0194
With the assistance of two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Star City, Arkansas Police Chief Dale "Hurricane" Dixon prepares to take on several criminals heading to his small town after a crime-filled road trip from California. ... more about One False Move
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.9883 out of 4 stars for Man Who Wasn't There
2.9883
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 Actor
AFI Awards, USA - AFI Actor of the Year - Male - Movies
Empire Awards, UK - Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Russian Guild of Film Critics - Best Foreign Actor
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.9679 out of 4 stars for Primary Colors
2.9679
Jack Stanton is running for president. The election is seen through the eyes of young Henry Burton. Along the way Stanton must deal with a sex scandal. ... more about Primary Colors
Actor Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $2.42 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.9569 out of 4 stars for Princess Mononoke
2.9569
A prince must travel into the forest to find a cure for his disease. There he find s the animals and the mining villager are in a war against each other. Leading the animals is the Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by the wolf god. ... more about Princess Mononoke
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.9072 out of 4 stars for Love Actually
2.9072
The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. ... more about Love Actually
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.9053 out of 4 stars for Bad Santa
2.9053
"Bad Santa" is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. ... more about Bad Santa
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.8475 out of 4 stars for Intolerable Cruelty
2.8475
Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything. ... more about Intolerable Cruelty
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.8116 out of 4 stars for Dead Man
2.8116
William Blake finds himself lost after he arrives in an unfamiliar town discovering the job he was promised has been filled. While there, he kills a man in a fight and flees to the wilderness where he meets an Indian that promises to guide him through the woods. ... more about Dead Man
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.8017 out of 4 stars for Armageddon
2.8017
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. ... more about Armageddon
Actor Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Sci-Fi
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.7891 out of 4 stars for Tombstone
2.7891
Wyatt Earp and his brothers move to Tombstone, Arizona hoping to live quiet peaceful lives, but they discover the town is over run by outlaws. Together with Doc. Holiday the boys try to run "The Cowboys" out of town, eventually leading up to the shootout at the O.K. Corral. ... more about Tombstone
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.7717 out of 4 stars for Bandits
2.7717
A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. ... more about Bandits
Actor Awards
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
National Board of Review, USA - Best Actor
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.7568 out of 4 stars for U Turn
2.7568
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. ... more about U Turn
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.7082 out of 4 stars for Homegrown
2.7082
Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. ... more about Homegrown
DVD from $3.92 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.6632 out of 4 stars for Pushing Tin
2.6632
Nick and the other boys (and Vicki Lewis) working the hotspot of air traffic control in New York are impressed with themselves, to say the least. They thrive on the no-room-for-error, fast-paced job and let it infect their lives. ... more about Pushing Tin
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.6128 out of 4 stars for Ice Harvest
2.6128
A wickedly funny thriller that takes moviegoers on a wild ride brimming with larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. ... more about Ice Harvest
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5980 out of 4 stars for Bad News Bears
2.5980
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. ... more about Bad News Bears
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5855 out of 4 stars for Astronaut Farmer
2.5855
A retired astronaut leaves NASA to save his family farm, but he still dreams of going into space. To fulfill his dreams he begins to build a space rocket in his barn. ... more about Astronaut Farmer
DVD from $2.17 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5473 out of 4 stars for Indecent Proposal
2.5473
A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. ... more about Indecent Proposal
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5340 out of 4 stars for Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
2.5340
The title should be enough to explain the plot here. ... more about Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5282 out of 4 stars for Alamo
2.5282
Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo. ... more about Alamo
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.5249 out of 4 stars for Chrystal
2.5249
Set in the Ozark mountains, Chrystak combines red-dirt realism with the fabulist Southern literary tradition – part Flannery O'Connor, part Johnny Cash – to tell a wild and haunting tale of the power of true love. ... more about Chrystal
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.4854 out of 4 stars for Levity
2.4854
The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thorton) has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to try to seek redemption. ... more about Levity
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.3676 out of 4 stars for Daddy and Them
2.3676
When an Uncle (Jim Varney) is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician (Thornton) and his wife (Dern), her mother (Ladd), her sister (Preston), and his father (Andy Griffith). ... more about Daddy and Them
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.3607 out of 4 stars for Badge
2.3607
A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. ... more about Badge
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.3403 out of 4 stars for Floundering
2.3403
In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. ... more about Floundering
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.3333 out of 4 stars for For the Boys
2.3333
With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". ... more about For the Boys
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.2270 out of 4 stars for School for Scoundrels
2.2270
Jon Heder plays an unlucky meter reader who enrolls in a confidence-building class so he can win the love of the girl of his dreams. ... more about School for Scoundrels
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.0456 out of 4 stars for Trouble Bound
2.0456
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. ... more about Trouble Bound
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 2.0161 out of 4 stars for Waking Up in Reno
2.0161
Roy & Candy and Lonnie Earl & Darlene are two married couples who thought they knew one another, until they decided to take their dream vacation together. ... more about Waking Up in Reno
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.9794 out of 4 stars for Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
1.9794
Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. ... more about Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
DVD from $8.69 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.8710 out of 4 stars for Mr. Woodcock
1.8710
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher (Thornton), a man who made high school hell for generations of students. ... more about Mr. Woodcock
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.8303 out of 4 stars for Stars Fell on Henrietta
1.8303
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. ... more about Stars Fell on Henrietta
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.7944 out of 4 stars for Killing Box
1.7944
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. ... more about Killing Box
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.7160 out of 4 stars for South of Heaven
1.7160
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900's. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. ... more about South of Heaven
DVD from $2.61 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.4549 out of 4 stars for Informers
1.4549
A week in Los Angeles in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence. ... more about Informers
Not Available on DVD
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.3287 out of 4 stars for Winner
1.3287
A story about a man who can't seem to do anything but win at the tables in Vegas. This, of course, brings hustlers out of the woodwork intent on using him for financial gain. ... more about Winner
Not Available on DVD
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.3104 out of 4 stars for Bound by Honor
1.3104
This movie depicts the gang wars in Californian jails during the 1980s. The half-brothers Paco and Cruz grow up together with their cousin Miklo in one of the lesser districts of L.A. ... more about Bound by Honor
DVD from $8.94 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.1187 out of 4 stars for Last Real Cowboys
1.1187
In the late 1800s, somewhere in the West, two cowboys, the laconic Tar and the prolix Slope, sit by a daytime campfire eating beans. Their cattle are somewhere nearby. ... more about Last Real Cowboys
Not Available on DVD
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 1.0593 out of 4 stars for Gun
1.0593
A wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new blonde (Andrea Thompson), who moves into the house across from him. ... more about Gun
Not Available on DVD
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 0.0457 out of 4 stars for On Deadly Ground
0.0457
Posing as an environmental story about a corrupt oil company owner called Jennings, who will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska, this is just an excuse for another action film. ... more about On Deadly Ground
DVD from $0.48 
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hunter's Blood
0.0001
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. ... more about Hunter's Blood
Not Available on DVD
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
0.0001
Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. ... more about Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
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Billy Bob Thornton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Going Overboard
0.0001
Shecky Moskowitz, a deservedly struggling young comedian, lands a menial job on a cruise ship as the Miss-Universe contest is being held on-board. The Big Man On Deck for this voyage is Dickie Diamond, the ship's comedian and all-around ladies' man. ... more about Going Overboard
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Birthdate:
August 4, 1955

Billy Bob Thornton

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1980s
4
total ranking of 0.0001  0.0001
1990s
24
total ranking of 2.5750  2.5750
2000s
23
total ranking of 2.9478  2.9478
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
3.0861
Billy Bob Thornton is ranked overall as 3.0861 of of 4 stars
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