Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas

Actor (b. 1944)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Michael Douglas (71.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 40 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Michael's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

40
Movies
71.5%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Michael Douglas’s films lower than 51% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Romancing the Stone (Tubi) · Falling Down (YouTube) · Wall Street (Philo) · The China Syndrome (Fawesome) · Coma (Plex, Hoopla) · Wonder Boys (Kanopy, Hoopla) and 9 more.

Frequent Collaborators

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Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is a retired American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.

In 1975, Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, earning Douglas his first Oscar as one of the film's producers. Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy, and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (a role he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010). Other notable roles include in Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Falling Down (1993), The American President (1995), The Game (1997), Traffic (2000), and Wonder Boys (2000). In 2013, for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Born 1944-09-25 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

On ThumbScore, Michael Douglas appears in 40 films with an average audience score of 71.5%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Michael Douglas movie, ranked by audience score

Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone
1984
👍 87%
Falling Down
Falling Down
1993
👍 85%
Ant-Man
Ant-Man
2015
👍 85%
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018
👍 84%
Wall Street
Wall Street
1987
👍 82%
A Perfect Murder
A Perfect Murder
1998
👍 80%
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome
1979
👍 80%
Coma
Coma
1978
👍 80%
Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys
2000
👍 79%
Black Rain
Black Rain
1989
👍 77%
The War of the Roses
The War of the Roses
1989
👍 76%
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra
2013
👍 75%
A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
1985
👍 75%
The Game
The Game
1997
👍 74%
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
👍 74%
The American President
The American President
1995
👍 73%
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
👍 73%
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction
1987
👍 72%
The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
👍 72%
And So It Goes
And So It Goes
2014
👍 71%
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct
1992
👍 71%
Last Vegas
Last Vegas
2013
👍 71%
Shining Through
Shining Through
1992
👍 71%
Don't Say a Word
Don't Say a Word
2001
👍 70%
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
👍 69%
King of California
King of California
2007
👍 69%
Animal World
Animal World
2018
👍 69%
Traffic
Traffic
2000
👍 68%
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
👍 68%
One Night at McCool's
One Night at McCool's
2001
👍 68%
The Star Chamber
The Star Chamber
1983
👍 67%
The In-Laws
The In-Laws
2003
👍 65%
Solitary Man
Solitary Man
2009
👍 64%
You, Me and Dupree
You, Me and Dupree
2006
👍 63%
Beyond the Reach
Beyond the Reach
2014
👍 63%
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009
👍 63%
Haywire
Haywire
2011
👍 59%
Disclosure
Disclosure
1994
👍 58%
The Sentinel
The Sentinel
2006
👍 56%
Unlocked
Unlocked
2017
👍 55%