Elijah Wood
Peaked in the '00s
IMDb rating per movie
The best rated of the 38 movies Elijah Wood starred in is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), at 9.0 on IMDb, and the worst is Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003), at 4.4. The first 5 average 6.4 and the latest 5 6.1, down by 0.3. Together they average 6.5, from 11.1M votes in total. 3 cameos, like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), aren't counted.
Movie by movie
| Movie | Role | Released | Votes | Rating | Change | Rating bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back to the Future Part II | as Video Game Boy | 1989 | 631.2K | 7.8 | ||
| Internal AffairsCameo | as Sean | 1990 | 25.1K | 6.5 | ||
| Forever Young | as Nat Cooper | 1992 | 53.3K | 6.4 | −1.4 | |
| Radio Flyer | as Mike | 1992 | 15.4K | 6.9 | +0.5 | |
| The Good Son | as Mark Evans | 1993 | 49.3K | 6.4 | −0.5 | |
| North | as North | 1994 | 15.8K | 4.6 | −1.8 | |
| The War | as Stu Simmons | 1994 | 14.5K | 6.8 | +2.2 | |
| Flipper | as Sandy Ricks | 1996 | 12.8K | 5.4 | −1.4 | |
| The Ice Storm | as Mikey Carver | 1997 | 64.2K | 7.3 | +1.9 | |
| Deep Impact | as Leo Biederman | 1998 | 208.2K | 6.3 | −1.0 | |
| The Faculty | as Casey | 1998 | 150.3K | 6.6 | +0.3 | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | as Frodo | 2001 | 2.2M | 8.9 | +2.3 | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | as Frodo | 2002 | 2M | 8.8 | −0.1 | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingBest | as Frodo | 2003 | 2.2M | 9.0 | +0.2 | |
| Spy Kids 3: Game OverWorst | as The Guy | 2003 | 72.4K | 4.4 | −4.6 | |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | as Patrick | 2004 | 1.2M | 8.3 | +3.9 | |
| Green Street Hooligans | as Matt Buckner | 2005 | 173.6K | 7.4 | −0.9 | |
| Sin City | as Kevin | 2005 | 824.9K | 8.0 | +0.6 | |
| Everything Is Illuminated | as Jonathan Safran Foer | 2005 | 61.7K | 7.4 | −0.6 | |
| Bobby | as William Avary | 2006 | 44.1K | 6.9 | −0.5 | |
| Happy Feet | as Mumble (voice) | 2006 | 216.4K | 6.4 | −0.5 | |
| Paris, Je T'aimeCameo | as Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine) | 2006 | 76.7K | 7.2 | ||
| The Oxford Murders | as Martin | 2008 | 32.2K | 6.0 | −0.4 | |
| 9 | as #9 (voice) | 2009 | 159K | 7.0 | +1.0 | |
| The Romantics | as Chip | 2010 | 12.9K | 5.0 | −2.0 | |
| Happy Feet Two | as Mumble (voice) | 2011 | 51.6K | 5.8 | +0.8 | |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyCameo | as Frodo Baggins | 2012 | 939.2K | 7.8 | ||
| Celeste & Jesse Forever | as Scott | 2012 | 35.4K | 6.6 | +0.8 | |
| Maniac | as Frank Zito | 2012 | 43.2K | 6.1 | −0.5 | |
| Pawn Shop Chronicles | as Johnny Shaw | 2013 | 12.9K | 5.9 | −0.2 | |
| Grand Piano | as Tom Selznick | 2013 | 20.5K | 5.9 | ±0.0 | |
| Open Windows | as Nick Chambers | 2014 | 15.9K | 5.1 | −0.8 | |
| Cooties | as Clint | 2014 | 31.4K | 5.7 | +0.6 | |
| The Last Witch Hunter | as Dolan 37th | 2015 | 118K | 5.9 | +0.2 | |
| The Trust | as David Waters | 2016 | 22.2K | 5.5 | −0.4 | |
| I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore | as Tony | 2017 | 68.3K | 6.9 | +1.4 | |
| Come to Daddy | as Norval Greenwood | 2019 | 22.6K | 6.0 | −0.9 | |
| No Man of God | as Bill Hagmaier | 2021 | 10.6K | 6.4 | +0.4 | |
| The Toxic Avenger | as Fritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother | 2023 | 20.5K | 5.8 | −0.6 | |
| The Monkey | as Ted | 2025 | 98.9K | 5.9 | +0.1 | |
| Ready or Not 2: Here I Come | as The Lawyer | 2026 | 78.9K | 6.5 | +0.6 |
Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.
Worked with
Hugo Weaving
The early years were better
First 5 8.2−1.5Latest 5 6.7
Cate Blanchett
Hit and miss
First 5 6.7−0.4Latest 5 6.3
Ian McKellen
Not what it used to be
First 5 6.3−0.8Latest 5 5.5
Orlando Bloom
Lost the touch
First 5 8.0−1.3Latest 5 6.7
Peter Jackson
Best in the '00s
First 5 6.9+0.6Latest 5 7.5
Fran Walsh
Fizzled out
First 5 7.4−0.3Latest 5 7.1