Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh’s crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay’s political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo.

Rockwell’s other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie’s Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Moon (2009), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022).

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Sam Rockwell Movies

Discover the best Sam Rockwell movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Sam Rockwell ranked by year and score.

Wild Horse Nine (2026)

Comedy Crime Thriller

Easter Island, 1973. Two intelligence officers arrive under murky circumstances, their exile dressed up as routine reassignment. The island's isolation becomes a pressure cooker where old resentments surface and professional...

Score -.-

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026)

Action Adventure Comedy

A stranger walks into a Los Angeles diner claiming to be from the future, and the fate of everything hinges on whether the right collection of fed-up, unlikely strangers will...

Score 6.9

The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

Adventure Animation Comedy

Going straight was never going to be easy for a wolf, a shark, a piranha, a tarantula, and a snake with a criminal past. But just when Mr. Wolf and...

Score 7.6

Argylle (2024)

Action Adventure Comedy

Elly Conway writes bestselling spy novels from the comfort of her home, but her carefully imagined plots start tracking a little too closely to actual covert operations. Suddenly she finds...

Score 6.0

Vice (2018)

Comedy Drama

Dick Cheney spent decades quietly accumulating power, moving from congressional back rooms to the Pentagon to the boardroom of Halliburton before George W. Bush handed him the vice presidency. Adam...

Score 7.0

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Crime Drama

Seven months after her daughter's brutal murder, Mildred Hayes is done waiting. She rents three roadside billboards and plants a very public accusation aimed squarely at the town's beloved police...

Score 8.1

The Way Way Back (2013)

Comedy Drama

Fourteen-year-old Duncan barely speaks above a whisper, and the summer ahead looks brutal: a beach house shared with his mother's loud, dismissive boyfriend and a social scene he has no...

Score 7.1

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Action Adventure Science Fiction

Tony Stark's secret is out, and everyone wants a piece of it. The government wants his armor, weapons contractors want his patents, and a vengeful physicist with a grudge and...

Score 6.9

Moon (2009)

Drama Science Fiction

Sam Bell has spent three years harvesting helium-3 on the lunar surface, keeping himself sane with video messages from home and the company of GERTY, the facility's eerily calm AI....

Score 7.6

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Drama Western

Robert Ford idolized Jesse James long before he ever met him. When Ford finally joins the infamous outlaw's dwindling gang, admiration curdles into something darker, a mixture of envy, resentment,...

Score 7.1

Heist (2001)

Action Crime Drama

Joe Moore is a thief who is very good at his work, until a security camera catches him at the wrong moment. Suddenly his fence is withholding money, his wife...

Score 6.3

The Green Mile (1999)

Crime Drama Fantasy

Death row in a Depression-era Louisiana prison is the last place anyone expects grace, yet that is precisely where Paul Edgecomb finds it. John Coffey, a towering man convicted of...

Score 8.5

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the highest-rated movies starring Sam Rockwell? +

According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Sam Rockwell are Wild Horse Nine, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, and The Bad Guys 2.

How many movies and TV shows has Sam Rockwell starred in? +

Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 12 titles starring Sam Rockwell, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.

Are the movies starring Sam Rockwell worth watching? +

Yes! The overall filmography starring Sam Rockwell maintains a strong average user rating of 7.2 out of 10 across all tracked titles.