Tilda Swinton · Filmography Ranked
Best Tilda Swinton Films, Ranked by IQ Score
Three decades of cinema's most-canonical art-house leading actress. Every Swinton film, ranked.
Tilda Swinton's filmography is the most-canonical post-1990 art-house leading-actress catalog. Best Supporting Oscar for Michael Clayton (2007). Active across auteur cinema at a pace and selectivity unmatched among English-speaking leading actresses.
Anchor picks: Memoria (2021), Apichatpong. Michael Clayton (2007), her Oscar. I Am Love (2009), Guadagnino.
9 titles · ranked by IQ Score
Ranked by IQ Score. None of the 9 titles on this list has yet been re-verified under the current standard; all carry legacy scores, published before August 2026 under our earlier workflow, and are queued for re-verification, children's catalog first. Each title page states its class. About score classes → · Verification status →
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Questions about this ranking
What is the best Tilda Swinton film?
By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Memoria (2021) and Michael Clayton (2007) anchor the catalog. I Am Love, Only Lovers Left Alive, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Burn After Reading round out the canonical art-house-tier entries.
How does TVI rank Swinton's filmography?
Every Swinton film is scored on the same TVI rubric. Her catalog is unusually dense at the top because she selectively works with major auteurs (Jarmusch, Guadagnino, Anderson, Glazer, Apichatpong, Bong, Coens) rather than the commercial-prestige circuit.
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