About FilmPeopleRatings
About
FilmPeopleRatings is a community rating project for the people behind movies. Instead of only judging a movie as one whole product, we let viewers rate the specific work of actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers, visual effects artists, costume teams, and other credited film people.
The goal is to build a fairer film database where great individual work can be discovered, compared, discussed, and remembered—even when the movie itself is not the only thing people want to evaluate.
Collaboration
Contact us
If you want to collaborate, report data problems, suggest ranking improvements, discuss film data, or help grow the project, please email:
Project goal
Rank the people behind movies
Most movie sites focus on movie-level scores. FilmPeopleRatings focuses on people-level contributions. A user can rate one person's work in one movie and one department—for example, an actor's performance in a specific film or a director's direction of that film.
TMDb helps us with movie, person, image, and credit information. The ratings, comments, likes, rankings, and community scores belong to this website.
Evaluation method
One person, one movie, one department
A rating belongs to a precise movie credit—for example, an actor's performance in a film or a director's directing work on that film. A signed-in user may enter any score from 1 to 10 using ten stars. Half-star selections allow scores in 0.5-point increments. Each user has one current score per credit; rating it again replaces that score.
Stars set the numerical score directly. Comments and headlines are optional and have no additional weight.
Credit score
Performance in one movie
The score for a person's work in a particular movie is the arithmetic mean of all published user ratings for that exact credit.
Example: scores of 8, 6, and 10 produce 8.0 for that performance.
Overall people score
Equal weight for every rated movie credit
We first calculate each movie-credit score. A person's overall score within a department is then the mean of those credit scores. This prevents a heavily reviewed movie from overpowering every other movie in the person's career.
Example: acting-credit scores of 9.0, 7.0, and 8.0 produce an overall acting score of 8.0.
Acting and Directing are ranked separately. An acting score never contributes to a directing ranking, or vice versa.
Movie score
Built from the people who made the movie
A movie receives no direct user rating. Its score is the arithmetic mean of the individual credit scores currently available for its people, including rated acting and directing credits.
Example: if ten credited people have performance scores totaling 76, the movie score is 7.6.
An unrated credit is excluded rather than counted as zero. The movie score therefore becomes more representative as more of its people receive ratings.
Rankings
Score measures quality; popularity measures activity
Ordered by overall department score from highest to lowest. If two people have the same score, the person with more published ratings is placed first. Only people with at least one rated credit appear.
Ordered by how many published performance ratings each person received during the selected period. Each user's rating of one person in one movie and department counts once.
Imported TMDb popularity is used only for discovery and catalog ordering. It never decides community scores or people rankings.
Display & moderation
What counts
- Only published ratings are included in scores and rankings.
- Hidden ratings are excluded from every calculation.
- Scores are displayed to one decimal place.
- Written comments provide context but never alter numerical weight.
- Changing a rating replaces that user's prior score for the same credit.