Highest rated movie: Misery (1990)
Lowest rated movie: Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
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Looking for reviews of Kathy Bates movies? Cinafilm has a total of 23,055 reviews across 75 movies.
Movies starring Kathy Bates have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Misery - released in 1990 - is Kathy Bates's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 800 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kathy Bates is Curse of the Starving Class - released in 1994 - with a score of 38% based on 2 reviews.
An American actress and director. After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Dolores Claiborne (1995), before playing a featured role as Margaret "Molly" Brown in Titanic (1997). During this time she began her directing career, primarily in television. Bates received a Tony Award nomination for her 1983 performance in the Broadway play 'night, Mother. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in Primary Colors (1998), for which she also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for About Schmidt (2002). Her television work has resulted in eight Emmy Award nominations. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, Bates has stated that she has made a full recovery.
Kathy Bates has acted in films with Shirley MacLaine, Stephen Tobolowsky, John Cleese and John Travolta.
Kathy Bates has worked with these film directors: Rob Reiner, Woody Allen, John Lee Hancock and Ben Falcone.
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