- Films
- 16
- Avg rating
- 6.95
- Peak run
- 1940’61
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As a writer, films with 1,000+ votes
Waldo by the numbers
Average
6.95
13 rated films
Vote weighted
7.04
bigger films count more
Median
6.9
half are better
Consistency
±0.79
rating spread
Career
41y
1938 to 1978
Total votes
414K
across every film
Best
7.8
Midnight Cowboy
Worst
6.3
Taras Bulba
Newest first
Filmography
| 1978 |  Coming Home | 7.3 | 16,147 |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | 6.9 | 7,112 |
| 1973 |  Serpico | 7.7 | 149K |
| 1971 | The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight | 4.8 | 1,739 |
| 1969 |  Midnight Cowboy | 7.8 | 133K |
| 1964 | Flight from Ashiya | · | 826 |
| 1962 | Taras Bulba | 6.3 | 5,069 |
| 1961 | Blast of Silence | 7.4 | 6,509 |
| 1951 | M | 6.8 | 2,677 |
| 1950 | The Flame and the Arrow | 6.8 | 4,739 |
| 1948 | Rachel and the Stranger | 7.0 | 3,082 |
| 1944 | Mr. Winkle Goes to War | · | 744 |
| 1943 | Tonight We Raid Calais | · | 355 |
| 1940 |  The Philadelphia Story | 7.8 | 79,421 |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 6.8 | 1,586 |
| 1938 | The Shopworn Angel | 6.9 | 1,854 |
Better together?
Waldo Salt's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Waldo Salt
3 nominations, 2 wins
Awards record
- WonBest Original Screenplay · Academy Awards 1979Story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
- NominatedBest Adapted Screenplay · Academy Awards 1974Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
- WonBest Adapted Screenplay · Academy Awards 1970Waldo Salt
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