Dennis Quaid Movies-Ranked Best to Worst-Thirty-four years of movies.
79My favorite Dennis Quaid 2002's The Rookie...one of his many sports movies.
Earlier today I was listening to the Robert Wuhl sports talk show on the radio. Robert Wuhl of HBO's Arliss fame, was introducing his next guest. He said "In the golf world, people are always talking about the best golfer to never win a major tournament, well my next guest is probably the best actor to never receive an Oscar nomination....Mr. Dennis Quaid."
This got me thinking numerous things. (1) I could do a Dennis Quaid hub on hub pages, and as an added bonus he is still alive and has a pulse. (2) Is Dennis Quaid, in fact, the best actor out there that has not received a nomination? (3) Who are other possibilities for the title of best actor without a nomination.....the list of actors could include Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis, Steve Martin and Gary Oldman for that title. and (4) The answer to that question could make another hub subject in the future.
Dennis Quaid has been starring in movies for the last thirty-four years. His first breakthrough role was in 1979's Breaking Away. In 1980 he appeared with his brother, Randy, in the western The Long Riders. In the 1980s and early 1990s he appeared in three movies with his wife at the time, Meg Ryan. In 2002, Quaid received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Far From Heaven. In 2004 he starred in his biggest box office hit, The Day After Tomorrow. His most recent hit was 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.
Dennis Quaid in his biggest box office hit...The Day After Tomorrow(239.30 million in 2011 dollars)
Dennis Quaid's Top Ten Box Office Hits in 2011 Inflated Dollars.
Movie Year
| 2011 Inflated Box Office(millions)
| Co-Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
| 239.30 million
| Jake Gyllenhaal
|
#2 Traffic (2000)
| 182.70 million
| Michael Douglas
|
#3 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
| 159.80 million
| Channing Tatum
|
#4 Any Given Sunday (1999)
| 118.50 million
| Al Pacino
|
#5 Jaws 3-D (1983)
| 114.50 million
| Lou Gossett Jr.
|
#6 The Parent Trap (1998)
| 112.10 million
| Lindsay Lohan
|
#7 The Rookie (2002)
| 103.40 million
| Brian Cox
|
#8 Something to Talk About (1995)
| 93.00 million
| Julia Roberts
|
#9 DragonHeart (1996)
| 92.20 million
| Sean Connery
|
#10 Vantage Point (2008)
| 80.30 million
| Matthew Fox
|
Dennis Quaid in his highest rated movie according to critics and audiences...1983's The Right Stuff.
Dennis Quaid's Top Ten Movies based on critics and audience voting.
Movie Year
| Critics Audience Score
| Co-Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 The Right Stuff (1983)
| 88%
| Ed Harris
|
#2 Breaking Away (1979)
| 86%
| Dennis Christopher
|
#3 Traffic (2000)
| 85%
| Catherine Zeta-Jones
|
#4 Far from Heaven (2002)
| 82%
| Julianne Moore
|
#5 Postcards from the Edge (1990)
| 78%
| Meryl Streep
|
#6 In Good Company (2004)
| 76%
| Topher Grace
|
#7 The Rookie (2002)
| 76%
| Brian Cox
|
#8 The Long Riders (1980)
| 75%
| Randy Quaid
|
#9 The Parent Trap (1998)
| 74%
| Lindsay Lohan
|
#10 Innerspace (1987)
| 73%
| Meg Ryan
|
Dennis Quaid in his highest rated movie according to Movie Score....2000's Traffic.
Dennis Quaid's 55 movies ranked by Movie Score. Movie Score is box office results + critical reception + award recognition. Perfect score would be 100.
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
| Traffic (2000)
| $182.80
| 3
| 4
| 13
| 85%
| 71.79
|
2
| The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
| $239.30
| 2
| 2
| 4
| 54%
| 55.30
|
3
| Breaking Away (1979)
| $71.60
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 86%
| 51.74
|
4
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
| $159.80
| 1
| 4
| 5
| 45%
| 49.34
|
5
| The Rookie (2002)
| $103.40
| 3
| 4
| 8
| 76%
| 49.10
|
6
| The Parent Trap (1998)
| $112.10
| 2
| 2
| 6
| 74%
| 48.13
|
7
| The Right Stuff (1983)
| $53.30
| 6
| 0
| 5
| 88%
| 47.27
|
8
| Postcards from the Edge (1990)
| $73.10
| 1
| 3
| 5
| 78%
| 46.36
|
9
| Any Given Sunday (1999)
| $118.50
| 1
| 3
| 4
| 58%
| 45.11
|
10
| Frequency (2000)
| $66.80
| 3
| 4
| 7
| 72%
| 41.13
|
11
| DragonHeart (1996)
| $92.20
| 3
| 3
| 5
| 56%
| 39.31
|
12
| In Good Company (2004)
| $58.80
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 76%
| 38.15
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
13
| Vantage Point (2008)
| $80.30
| 1
| 4
| 5
| 51%
| 38.03
|
14
| Innerspace (1987)
| $52.50
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 73%
| 37.71
|
15
| Something to Talk About (1995)
| $93.00
| 2
| 3
| 5
| 46%
| 36.04
|
16
| The Long Riders (1980)
| $48.50
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 75%
| 35.78
|
17
| Far from Heaven (2002)
| $21.50
| 11
| 0
| 0
| 82%
| 35.16
|
18
| Suspect (1987)
| $38.20
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 67%
| 34.03
|
19
| The Big Easy (1987)
| $35.80
| 6
| 2
| 5
| 73%
| 33.92
|
20
| Jaws 3-D (1983)
| $114.50
| 1
| 3
| 4
| 23%
| 33.56
|
21
| Footloose (2011) Still in theaters
| $48.76
| 2
| 3
| 5
| 60%
| 33.16
|
22
| The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
| $42.90
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 62%
| 30.10
|
23
| Soul Surfer (2011)
| $43.85
| 4
| 2
| 6
| 55%
| 29.98
|
24
| Dreamscape (1984)
| $28.60
| 9
| 0
| 2
| 71%
| 29.20
|
25
| Wyatt Earp (1994)
| $48.50
| 4
| 1
| 3
| 53%
| 28.77
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
26
| Flesh and Bone (1993)
| $18.30
| 2
| 1
| 2
| 66%
| 27.79
|
27
| D.O.A. (1988)
| $24.60
| 3
| 1
| 3
| 61%
| 26.95
|
28
| Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
| $27.80
| 7
| 0
| 2
| 62%
| 26.21
|
29
| I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977)
| $25.40
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 57%
| 26.07
|
30
| Enemy Mine (1985)
| $27.80
| 9
| 0
| 1
| 63%
| 25.98
|
31
| The Express (2008)
| $11.10
| 6
| 0
| 1
| 66%
| 24.55
|
32
| Yours Mine and Ours (2005)
| $66.00
| 3
| 3
| 4
| 27%
| 24.22
|
33
| Playing By Heart (1998)
| $6.40
| 17
| 0
| 0
| 67%
| 23.35
|
34
| Undercover Blues (1993)
| $23.80
| 2
| 2
| 3
| 45%
| 22.81
|
35
| Everybody's All-American (1988)
| $24.60
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 46%
| 22.61
|
36
| Gang Related (1997)
| $10.30
| 10
| 0
| 1
| 61%
| 22.40
|
37
| Come See the Paradise (1990)
| $1.60
| 21
| 0
| 0
| 67%
| 22.34
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
38
| Savior (1998)
| $.00
| 67
| 0
| 0
| 67%
| 22.15
|
39
| September 30th 1955 (1977)
| $6.40
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 60%
| 22.10
|
40
| Our Winning Season (1978)
| $7.20
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 59%
| 21.91
|
41
| Caveman (1981)
| $45.30
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 37%
| 21.83
|
42
| The Alamo (2004)
| $28.60
| 4
| 1
| 2
| 45%
| 21.64
|
43
| Legion (2010)
| $40.50
| 2
| 1
| 3
| 35%
| 21.49
|
44
| Smart People (2008)
| $10.30
| 7
| 0
| 1
| 57%
| 21.21
|
45
| Tough Enough (1983)
| $6.40
| 12
| 0
| 0
| 60%
| 21.11
|
46
| Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
| $27.00
| 8
| 0
| 1
| 45%
| 20.12
|
47
| Battle for Terra (2009)
| $1.60
| 12
| 0
| 0
| 58%
| 19.65
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2011 Box Office (Millions)
| Opened
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Score
| Movie Score
|
48
| Pandorum (2009)
| $11.10
| 6
| 0
| 1
| 48%
| 18.61
|
49
| American Dreamz (2006)
| $8.70
| 9
| 0
| 1
| 49%
| 18.38
|
50
| Switchback (1997)
| $11.10
| 8
| 0
| 1
| 47%
| 18.15
|
51
| All Night Long (1981)
| $12.70
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 43%
| 17.59
|
52
| The Seniors (1978)
| $3.20
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 48%
| 17.44
|
53
| Cold Creek Manor (2003)
| $27.80
| 5
| 1
| 3
| 30%
| 17.02
|
54
| The Horsemen (2009)
| $.80
| 74
| 0
| 0
| 48%
| 15.85
|
55
| Wilder Napalm (1993)
| $.00
| 45
| 0
| 0
| 40%
| 13.27
|
56
| Gorp (1980)
| $5.60
| ?
| ?
| ?
| 32%
| 12.32
|
Dennis Quaid is the 55th actor/actress to receive a Cogerson career review hub page. My Greatest Actors/Actress Table has two separate tables....the first table ranks the 55 actors using all of their movies. Dennis Quaid comes in dead last at #55 on that table. On the second table only looks at the actor's Top Ten Movie Score Movies. On that table Dennis Quaid comes in at #50.....right behind Adam Sandler but ahead of Kurt Russell.
Final conclusion: I think Dennis Quaid is a good actor....but I do not feel he is the best actor without an Oscar nomination.
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Yay baby!! A pulse!! I haven't seen a DQ movie yet that I didn't enjoy! Frequency still has me a bit baffled but I still watch it over and over hoping that one day it finally clicks...that's just me. :)
Thank you cogerson for a hub well done!! UP/fan-freakin-tastic!!!
Dennis Quaid is a good actor. I enjoy watching Frequency, The Big Easy and Suspect when they appear on TV and these are some of my favorite movies of his. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY COGERSON... YOU HAVE A VERY INTERESTING HUB...IT IS SO INFORMATIVE...
I really enjoyed Vantage Point and Frequency; and pretty much every other movie I've seen starring DQ. Innerspace was a long time back, but I remember laughing loud. Ahh, reminiscing. Thanks for the memories ;)
I like Dennis Quaid, interesting question about who is the best actor without an nomination. I would include Jim Carrey from his serious movies, or Martin Sheen. As for Quaid, I remember watching Caveman with Ringo Starr all the time on cable back in the 1980s, so stupid it was funny. I see it is ranked 40th kinda low, but I can understand that. Voted up.
Hey come on Cogerson this guys still alive, have we run out of dead actors already? ;)
While I don't rate him as highly as you do Quaid is a good actor, his best film probably GI Joe Rise of something or other, it won all the Oscars last year.
But seriously I liked him as astronaut Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff which is one of my favourite films of the 80's, fantastic film and a great group of actors.
An underrated favourite is Enemy Mine which is a sort of sci-fi remake of John Boorman's Hell in the Pacific.
And InnerSpace was great fun too, an 80's variation on the sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage.
I wasn't that impressed with his recent output, Quaid could do with a Jeff Bridges type "revival", if the right film comes along who knows?
Voted Up and Useful.
Rookie and Frequency are a showcase of Quaid's talent.;)
Quaid is very underrated, I was shocked when I saw he has been in movies for 34 years, he was excellent as the dad in Soul Surfer. And Breaking Away is one great movie. I will vote for Willis as the best actor without a nomination, I never understood why he was the only actor left out in Pulp Fiction, his Butch is a classic character. Voted up.
I love Dennis Quaid! I think he's a great actor (cute one too)! Lol
I see I have missed severhim movies movies - thanks I'll check those out:)
hey ruffridyer....I can see the comparison between Quaid and Ford.....Quaid is the type of actor nobody really thinks about....but when you see on screen, you generally feel he will give a good performance....his brother appears to have completely lost it....hiding out in Canada because he thinks someone is going to kill him....but I did see he has another movie coming out soon.
Hey Sunshine625.....I thought you would appreciate a hub about a person that still has a pulse....Frequency is a somewhat confusing movie....but Quaid is very good in the movie. I appreciate you stopping by and checking out my hub.
Hey Sunshine625.....I thought you would appreciate a hub about a person that still has a pulse....Frequency is a somewhat confusing movie....but Quaid is very good in the movie. I appreciate you stopping by and checking out my hub.
Thanks for the compliment BERN1960, Frequency is getting lots of attention on the hub...it finished in his top 10 of movies.....I hope you enjoy your 4th of July as well.
Hey parrster.....I agree with you about Innerspace, I remember thinking how great I thought that movie was....so far it is the only Martin Short movie I have ever liked. The only part I did not like about Vantage Point was the traitor at the end of the movie....I could see that a mile away.....thanks for checking out my Quaid hub.
hey hinton1966....good choices on Jim Carrey and Martin Sheen....I think Carrey should have been nominated for either The Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine of External Mind...or whatever it was called.....as for Sheen...how did his performance in Apocalypse Now get ignored....funny you mention watching Caveman on cable....I was right there with you....it got some serious turns on HBO back then...thanks for the comments.
Hey Steve...do not worry Mr. Charlton Heston will be the next pub that I get published.....I agree with you I was so disappointed when GI Joe did not get one of the 10 nominations for Best Picture...talk about a movie getting screwed.....lol. Enemy Mine is a great forgotten movie....I always wondered why it never got any serious attention. I think you are correct Quaid needs another great performance to get his career back on track...he has about 4 movies on IMDB coming, maybe one of them will do the trick. Well my Movie Score system ranks him dead last....so many there is a reason he does not have a nomination to his credit.
Hey mentalist acer....wow another throw out to Frequency....I think I am going to have to check it out again...thanks for reading.
Hey Shaun....Breaking Away is a classic and it holds up very well, even as 30 years have passed....the lead actor Dennis Christopher never really did much else....as for your selection of Willis as the best actor without a nomination...I agree 100%....I think he has the title and won day they will fix that problem...thanks for the comments.
Hey RealHouseWife...thanks for stopping by and commenting...my wife also thinks he is a very handsome man....in my opinion he is ok.....lol.
Thanks for all the info. Dennis Quaid always strikes me as sort of a "sleeper". He is a good, functional actor, but I never really think his performances are outstanding. Still I like him. Voted up and useful.
Hey justmesuzanne ...thanks for stopping by and reading my Quaid hub....I can agree with your assessment on him.....he is a solid but not spectacular actor...thanks for the compliment.
I really enjoyed frequency. Maybe you can do a Hub on Randy Quaid, who has apparently gone insane.
Hey marriedwithdebt, thanks for checking out one of neglected hubs. I have always liked Dennis Quaid, he does not seem to ever get mentioned we people name movie stars. But he has been making movies for over 30 years, and many of them are pretty good. As for Randy, I agree I think he and his wife have lost it, it makes looking at some of his older movies a little harder because I keep thinking about his behavior over the last few years....thanks for the comment.
ruffridyer Level 4 Commenter 10 months ago
I like Dennis Quaid. He remians me of Harrison Ford. His brother Randy is quite good too. Though usally typecast playing idiotic charactors like Cousin Eddie in the Vacation movies.
It doesn't seem like Dennis gets the respect he deserves. I consider him a good actor, not a great actor but good.