Last Updated on 16 July 2025
I searched the Internet for ranked lists of the best Morgan Freeman movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed by date or by streaming service, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 31 lists. I took the 31 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 31) were:
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – 29 lists
- Million Dollar Baby (2004) – 29 lists
- Se7en (1995) – 29 lists
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – 29 lists
- Unforgiven (1992) – 27 lists
- The Dark Knight (2008) – 26 lists
- Invictus (2009) – 25 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- WatchMojo – 16 Jul 2025
- IMDb – 14 Jul 2025
- The Numbers: Domestic – 14 Jul 2025
- The Numbers: Worldwide – 14 Jul 2025
- SlashFilm – 17 Jun 2025
- Ranker – 11 Jun 2025
- Gold Derby – 25 May 2025
- Collider – 18 May 2025
- Far Out Magazine – 1 May 2025
- FandomWire – 26 Apr 2025
- Wionews – 2 Apr 2025
- The Manual – 31 Dec 2024
- The Shot – 27 Dec 2024
- High on Films – 23 Jul 2024
- JustWatch – 28 Jun 2024
- Forbes – 8 Jun 2024
- StudyFinds – 19 May 2024
- ScreenRant – 4 May 2024
- Blavity – 16 Aug 2023
- MovieWeb – 1 Feb 2023
- Rotten Tomatoes – 18 Aug 2022
- AARP – 15 Apr 2021
- Wyoming News – 8 Nov 2020
- Ultimate Movie Rankings – 25 Aug 2019
- Newsweek – 20 Nov 2018
- Lee Enterprises – 16 Jun 2017
- WonderWall – 5 Apr 2017
- Cinema Parrot Disco – no date
- Flickchart – no date
- The Top Tens – no date
- Vox Cinemas – no date