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.
1
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
-.-
2
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
7.1
3
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
4
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
5
The Bad Guys (2022)
Action
Animation
Comedy
A charismatic wolf negotiates an unlikely second chance for his ragtag crew of career criminals, proposing they rebrand themselves as heroes rather than face prison time. What follows is a...
Score
7.5
6
Richard Jewell (2019)
Drama
History
A security guard's split-second heroism during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics becomes a nightmare when federal investigators and hungry journalists transform him into their prime suspect. Clint Eastwood's film examines how...
Score
7.4
7
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Comedy
Drama
War
A 10-year-old Nazi fanboy's rigid worldview collapses when he discovers his mother harboring a Jewish girl upstairs. Taika Waititi's audacious film uses absurdist comedy to expose how easily ideology corrupts...
Score
8.0
8
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
9
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
10
Laggies (2014)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
When her high school boyfriend proposes, Megan bolts. Twenty-eight and adrift, she has no career, no direction, and certainly no answers. She escapes to the home of Annika, a sharp-tongued...
Score
6.1
11
A Single Shot (2013)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
A hunter's stray bullet finds an unintended target, setting off a cascade of violence in rural Appalachia. John Moon becomes entangled with desperate criminals willing to kill to protect their...
Score
5.7
12
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
13
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Comedy
Crime
When a writer's out-of-work actor friend steals a mobster's prized dog as part of an elaborate con, the screenwriter finds himself at the center of a criminal chaos he never...
Score
6.8
14
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
15
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
16
Choke (2008)
Comedy
Drama
Victor's life is a careful balance of manipulation and desperation. Drowning in medical debt from his mother's care, he's discovered an unlikely revenue stream: staged choking incidents that prey on...
Score
6.1
17
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
18
Matchstick Men (2003)
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Roy Waller runs elaborate cons with surgical precision, his neuroses kept carefully in check through ritual and routine. When his estranged daughter materializes in his carefully ordered life, his meticulous...
Score
7.0
19
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Chuck Barris built a television empire hosting The Gong Show, but his memoir suggests a far stranger double life. According to his account, he spent the 1970s balancing game show...
Score
6.7
20
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
21
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Adventure
Comedy
Science Fiction
When a desperate alien race mistakes reruns of a cancelled 1970s sci-fi sitcom for actual historical records, they recruit the show's washed-up cast to defend their planet from annihilation. These...
Score
7.1
22
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
23
Light Sleeper (1992)
Crime
Drama
A former dealer navigating New York's nocturnal underworld, John LeTour battles insomnia and the pull of old habits even as he attempts legitimacy. When a woman from his past resurfaces...
Score
6.7
Sam Rockwell TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Sam Rockwell TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Sam Rockwell.
1
Fosse/Verdon (2019)
Drama
Two luminaries of American theater formed one of entertainment's most combustible partnerships. Bob Fosse brought obsessive perfectionism to the director's chair and choreographer's studio, while Gwen Verdon possessed the rare...
Score
7.0
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 24 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 out of 10 across all tracked titles.