Last Updated on 2 September 2025
I searched the Internet for lists of the best Anthony Hopkins movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed by date or alphabetically, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 29 lists of either his roles or his movies. I took the 29 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got and dividing 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 29) were:
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – all 29 lists
- The Remains of the Day (1993) – all 29 lists
- The Elephant Man (1980) – 28 lists
- The Father (2020) – 26 lists
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – 24 lists
- Howards End (1992) – 24 lists
- The Two Popes (2019) – 24 lists
- The Lion in Winter (1968) – 23 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- The Numbers: Domestic – 1 Sep 2025
- The Numbers: Worldwide – 1 Sep 2025
- Brave AI – 28 Aug 2025
- IMDb – 28 Aug 2025
- Ranker – 1 Aug 2025
- Express – 8 Jun 2025
- Collider – 24 Apr 2025
- Filmmaking Lifestyle – 11 Mar 2025
- SlashFilm – 24 Feb 2025
- Yahoo! Entertainment – 22 Jan 2025
- Gold Derby – 28 Dec 2024
- Looper – 27 Dec 2024
- Screen Rant – 12 Jan 2024
- MovieWeb – 2 Jan 2024
- The Manual – 13 Nov 2023
- Collider – 20 Aug 2023
- Entertainment Weekly – 15 Aug 2023
- Variety – 31 Dec 2022
- Rotten Tomatoes – 29 Dec 2022
- CommuniTV – 28 Nov 2022
- CinemaBlend – 7 May 2021
- The Guardian – 8 Apr 2021
- IGN – 1 Apr 2021
- Ultimate Movie Rankings – 9 Aug 2019
- DW – 30 Dec 2017
- St. Louis Today – 28 Jan 2011
- Awards & Shows – no date
- Flickchart – no date
- Letterboxd – no date
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