Frances McDormand

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Blood Simple (1984): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya…; A humdinger debut from the Coen Brothers, who teasingly draw out the sinister activities of shady activities of shady rednecks before nailing things…
Chattahoochee (1990): Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand; Gary Oldman plays a Korean war veteran admitted to an asylum where he discovers gross malpractise and corruption.
Darkman (1990): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels; A superhero emerges from a scientist charred beyond recognition, but able to assume the identity of anyone he chooses. Fun all the way, with the…
Hidden Agenda (1990): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…; Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
Fargo (1996): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy…; The gifted Coen Brothers cross two of their previous treasures – RAISING ARIZONA and BLOOD SIMPLE for this lovingly mocking tale of insurance…
Paradise Road (1997): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Cate Blanchett…; A group of European woman, incl. Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, are captured in Singapore during WWII by the Japanese. They alleviate the…
Madeline (1998): Dir. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Feat. Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand; Little Hatty Jones is quite marvellous as a cutey–rebel redhead boarding at a school of etiquette presided by groovy nun Frances McDormand in…
Talk of Angels (1999): Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Frances McDormand; Undeniably polished costume epic, sees Irish governess Polly Walker transplanted to the aristocratic Spanish household of Franco Nero during the…
Wonder Boys (2000): Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jnr., Tobey Maguire…; A rumpled Michael Douglas plays an academic professor and successful author who's terminally unfinished second novel is symptomatic of midlife…
Almost Famous (2000): Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Kate Hudson…; The best music drama yet committed to film (SPINAL TAP was a comedy), this is a vibrant and bracingly assured portrait of rock music fanaticism in…
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini…; The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
City By the Sea (2002): Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand; Robert De Niro faces a personal and professional dilemma as a decent cop/bad father who discovers that the prime suspect in the murder of his partner…
Laurel Canyon (2002): Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale…; Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer–director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but…
Something's Gotta Give (2003): Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves…; Smoothly fashioned comic drama in which aging music–industry womaniser Nicholson suffers a heart attack and falls for grey–haired…
Aeon Flux (2005): Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller…; Sci–fi action fantasy based on the mid–1990s animation by Peter Chung, in which a spandex–clad superheroine (Theron) flits around…
North Country (2005): Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek…; Fact–based drama about a group of women miners in 1970s Minnesota who endured a hostile work environment, bullying and sexual abuse after…
Friends with Money (2006): Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener…; Diverting relationship–drama skips through dir. Holofcener's (LOVELY AND AMAZING) perennial wry life lessons, presenting the tribulations of…
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008): Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Shirley Henderson…; Zippy "roaring 30's" comedy about an unemployed governess (McDormand) who finds a new zest for life and love after accepting a job with a frivolous,…
Burn After Reading (2008): Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Feat. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt…; Appealing 'dunderhead' comedy from the Coen Brothers that plots an elaborate caper for its A–list ensemble cast, who relish the chance to…
Transformers - Dark of the Moon (Transformers 3) (2011): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro…; The brashest of blockbuster franchises rolls on seemingly eternally, but this one's at least an improvement of the execrable REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.…
This Must Be the Place (2011): Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch…; Sean Penn is all affectation as a retired, depressed glam rocker who sets off on an American road trip in search of a Nazi war criminal in this…
Moonrise Kingdom (2012): Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis…; Wes Anderson's latest exquisite comedy, about two 12–year–olds in 1960s New England who consummate their adolescent romance by running…
Promised Land (2012): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski…; Matt Damon plays a natural–gas representative who has the best interests of a small–town community at heart despite his company's…
Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (2014): Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd…; Frances McDormand is superb as the forbidding Olive Kitteridge in this exemplary HBO adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize–winning…
Good Dinosaur, The (2015): Dir. Peter Sohn
Feat. Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin…; Charming pre–historic tale, set in an alternate world where the dinosaur–killing asteroid misses Earth. about the unlikely friendship…
Hail Caesar! (2016): Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Feat. Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich…; Light yet dazzlingly bright comic outing from the Coen Bros follows real life Hollywood 'fixer' Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he frantically tries to…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017): Dir. Martin McDonagh
Feat. Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell…; Frances McDormand gives an Oscar–winning turn as a grieving mother who personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's…
Nomadland (2020): Dir. Chloé Zhao
Feat. Frances McDormand, David Strathairn; Frances McDormand offers arguably her greatest performance yet (ahead of a cast of nomadic non–actors) as a woman who leaves her…
French Dispatch, The (2021): Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton…; A wildly inventive anthology film from meticulous auteur Wes Anderson (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) set in in a fictional 20th century French town, where a…

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Frances McDormand

Filmography (All Films)