Last Updated on 2 March 2025
I searched the Internet for ranked lists of the best Gene Hackman movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 27 lists. I took the 27 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I averaged the rankings each movie got and divided that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 27) were:
- The French Connection (1971) – 26 lists
- Unforgiven (1992) – 25 lists
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) – 25 lists
- The Conversation (1974) – 24 lists
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – 23 lists
- Superman (1978) – 22 lists
- Mississippi Burning (1988) – 21 lists
- Crimson Tide (1995) – 20 lists
- Hoosiers (1986) – 19 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- Brave AI – 1 Mar 2025
- IMDb – 1 Mar 2025
- Kotaku – 28 Feb 2025
- Spyscape – 28 Feb 2025
- Collider – 27 Feb 2025
- Entertainment Weekly – 27 Feb 2025
- Express – 27 Feb 2025
- FarOut Magazine – 27 Feb 2025
- Gold Derby – 27 Feb 2025
- Men’s Health – 27 Feb 2025
- MovieWeb – 27 Feb 2025
- Nick Digilio – 27 Feb 2025
- The Telegraph – 27 Feb 2025
- Women’s Weekly – 27 Feb 2025
- Ranker – 15 Feb 2025
- Newsbreak – 22 Nov 2024
- MSN – 17 Nov 2024
- Humanizing the Vacuum – 3 Aug 2021
- Screen Rant – 8 May 2020
- ComingSoon – 14 Feb 2019
- Newsweek – 30 Jan 2019
- FreeForums – 14 Jun 2018
- GameSpot – 11 Aug 2013
- Metacritic – no date
- Rotten Tomatoes: Audience Ratings – no date
- Rotten Tomatoes: Critics Ratings – no date
- ThroughTheClutter – no date