Ellen Burstyn Movie Rankings
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 3.6129 out of 4 stars for Exorcist
3.6129
The Exorcist is based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and considered one of the scariest movies of all time. The devil possesses the body of a young girl and it is up to two priests to expel it from her body before she is too strong to control. ... more about Exorcist
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 3.3241 out of 4 stars for Last Picture Show
3.3241
Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) are two young boys trying to find where they belong in the world as everyone leaves their sleepy Texas town for the big cities. On their journey they have love affairs with the town sweetheart and an older married woman. ... more about Last Picture Show
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 3.1122 out of 4 stars for Requiem for a Dream
3.1122
Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. ... more about Requiem for a Dream
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actress
Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actress
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actress in a Leading Role
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
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.9225 out of 4 stars for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
2.9225
When Alice's husband dies, she has no money but must support her 12 year old son. She decides she wants to move to Monterey, California, to be a singer. ... more about Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
DVD from $4.41 
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.7728 out of 4 stars for Playing by Heart
2.7728
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. ... more about Playing by Heart
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.7642 out of 4 stars for Down in the Valley
2.7642
When Harlan Carruthers (Norton), a charismatic cowboy who seems as if he would be much more at home in Monument Valley than in the San Fernando Valley, has a chance encounter with Tobe (Wood), a bored and restless suburban teenager, both of their lives ar ... more about Down in the Valley
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9
Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.7394 out of 4 stars for Yards
2.7394
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. ... more about Yards
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.7148 out of 4 stars for Harry and Tonto
2.7148
Harry is a retired teacher in his seventies living in an area of New York City where he & his deceased wife raised his children - where he's lived all his life. ... more about Harry and Tonto
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.6796 out of 4 stars for Spitfire Grill
2.6796
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. ... more about Spitfire Grill
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.6330 out of 4 stars for Fountain
2.6330
Through three simultaneous story lines, "The Fountain" is the story of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. The tale takes us to 16th century Spain, the present and a floating sphere. All questing for the "Tree of Life. ... more about Fountain
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13
Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.6296 out of 4 stars for King of Marvin Gardens
2.6296
'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. ... more about King of Marvin Gardens
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.6060 out of 4 stars for W.
2.6060
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can. ... more about W.
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15
Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.5999 out of 4 stars for Decade Under the Influence
2.5999
The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and liberation. ... more about Decade Under the Influence
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.5876 out of 4 stars for Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2.5876
Siddalee, a famous New York playwright, is quoted in Time magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. ... more about Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.5722 out of 4 stars for How to Make an American Quilt
2.5722
Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master's thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. ... more about How to Make an American Quilt
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.5000 out of 4 stars for Jane Austen Book Club
2.5000
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels. ... more about Jane Austen Book Club
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.4800 out of 4 stars for Baby-Sitters Club
2.4800
Based on the bestselling book series about seven friends whose babysitting business leads to one adventure after another. ... more about Baby-Sitters Club
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Ellen Burstyn 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
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.2111 out of 4 stars for Alex in Wonderland
2.2111
After his first film is a hit, a young director is caught in the classic bind between art and commerce--he wants to make a film that challenges the audience and makes them think, and the studio wants something simple that will make them a ton of money. ... more about Alex in Wonderland
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 2.0785 out of 4 stars for Stone Angel
2.0785
The witty, irascible and fiercely proud Hagar Shipley escapes from home when her son Marvin and daughter in law Doris tell her she must move into nursing care. She sets out on a preposterous journey in search of a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past. ... more about Stone Angel
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.9743 out of 4 stars for Dying Young
1.9743
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. ... more about Dying Young
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.9537 out of 4 stars for Twice in a Lifetime
1.9537
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. ... more about Twice in a Lifetime
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.8721 out of 4 stars for Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City
1.8721
A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he nearly had while shooting THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. ... more about Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.7990 out of 4 stars for Roommates
1.7990
Michael Holeczak has a most unusual roommate, his grandfather, Rocky. Now Rocky's a bit strange but loves Michael and only has his best interest. Michael would live with Rocky after his parents died. ... more about Roommates
DVD from $6.46 
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.7632 out of 4 stars for Wicker Man
1.7632
In Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973 horror classic, Nicolas Cage stars as a sheriff investigating a young girl's disappearance from an isolated, mysterious island off the coast of Maine. ... more about Wicker Man
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.7415 out of 4 stars for Providence
1.7415
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. ... more about Providence
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.5968 out of 4 stars for Cemetery Club
1.5968
This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. ... more about Cemetery Club
DVD from $4.12 
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.5597 out of 4 stars for Ambassador
1.5597
Robert Mitchum plays a controversial U.S. ambassador to Israel who tries to solve the Palestinian question while being criticized by all factions, which takes a turn when his wife begins having an affair with a PLO chief. ... more about Ambassador
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 1.0133 out of 4 stars for Resurrection
1.0133
Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmaties. ... more about Resurrection
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.9021 out of 4 stars for Same Time
0.9021
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. ... more about Same Time
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
American Movie Awards - Best Actress
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $6.43 
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.7196 out of 4 stars for Silence of the North
0.7196
Actor Awards
Genie Awards - Best Performance by a Foreign Actress
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for 30 Days
0.0001
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau
0.0001
Resistance took different forms at Auschwitz, the rebellion of the Sonderkommando at Crematorium 4 being only the most notable example. Survivors recount how people took other steps to preserve their humanity, and, in that way, to resist the Nazis. ... more about Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Distance
0.0001
On September 11, 2001, Sarah Postle is called to the law offices of Julian Ritteman on the 64th floor in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. During the chaos of evacuation, Mr. Ritteman hands her an envelope and sends her safely home. ... more about Distance
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Grand Isle
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
0.0001
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream." Hubert Selby Jr. ... more about Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
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Ellen Burstyn scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for In Our Hands
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Ellen Burstyn
Birthdate:
December 7, 1932

Ellen Burstyn

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1970s
8
total ranking of 2.8384  2.8384
1980s
6
total ranking of 1.2783  1.2783
1990s
16
total ranking of 2.4593  2.4593
2000s
15
total ranking of 2.8243  2.8243
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.9204
Ellen Burstyn is ranked overall as 2.9204 of of 4 stars
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