Image Credit: Ben Rothstein/Everett Collectionĭir. Antoine Fuqua, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams and Oona Laurence. Image Credit: Scott Garfield/Everett Collectionĭir. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson. Image Credit: Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros/Everett Collectionĭir. Jonathan Jakubowicz, starring Usher Raymond, Edgar Ramirez and robert De Niro. Image Credit: Rico Torres/Everett Collectionĭir.
Philippe Falardeau, starring Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss and Ron Perlman. Image Credit: Sarah Shatz/IFC Films/Everett Collectionĭir. Ben Younger, starring Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Katey Sagal.
Image Credit: Open Road Films/Everett Collectionĭir. Juho Kuosmanen, starring Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola and Eero Milonoff.
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI, 2016ĭir. Scroll through the selection of the top 50 Classic Boxing films that include Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring, and Day Of The Fight directed by Stanley Kubrick.ĭir. Million Dollar Baby would scoop the top honor of winning Best Motion Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Directing at the 2004 Academy Awards. Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Hillary Swank, and The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale were both nominated for seven Academy Awards. The film won Best Picture, Director, and Film editing in the 10 categories it was nominated for with Sylvester Stallone losing out on Best Actor in a leading role. The Champ was nominated also for best picture but that first win for a boxing film would go to the 1976 classic, Rocky. Overall 22 boxing-related films have been nominated for an Academy Award dating back to the 1931 film, The Champ which became the first sport-themed movie to be nominated for an Academy Award, winning Best Actor for Wallace Berry and for Best Original Story. Jordan in Creed, Denzel Washington in The Hurricane Ali starring Will Smith and Robert De Niro’s award-winning performance in Raging Bull. As the sport grew in popularity so did the genre dating back to the first boxing movie, Corbett and Courtney Before The Kinetograph filmed in 1894.įrom Rags-to-riches, the fight for glory and going against all odds is the usual narrative of the boxer’s journey as showcased by Michael B. There is no other sport that has produced more movies than the genre of boxing over the 20th century.
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