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12 Angry Men
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92/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1
- IMDb #7
- Google retired #93
- Rotten Tomatoes #1
- Metacritic #2
- Letterboxd #2
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #11
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #21
- Metacritic Critics #38
- Metacritic Audience #8
- Criticker #4
- Douban #13
- Kinopoisk #31
- AlloCiné #4
- Trakt #5
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See the films the platforms disagree about most →Twelve jurors retire to deliberate the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of murdering his father. What initially appears to be an open-and-shut case becomes increasingly complex as one juror begins to sow doubt about the evidence. Tempers flare and prejudices are revealed as the twelve men debate the fate of the defendant, locked in a tense, hot room.
Details
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Reginald Rose
- Based on
- Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
- Studio
- Orion-Nova Productions
- Released
- 10 April 1957
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $397.8K
- Box office
- $4.4M
- Awards
- 7 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 15 →2 major awards won · 7 wins from 15 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1958 | Best Written Drama | Reginald Rose | Winner |
| Berlin International Film Festival 1957 | Golden Bear | Sidney Lumet | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Picture | Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Director | Sidney Lumet | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Reginald Rose | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1958 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | 12 Angry Men | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1958 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Lee J. Cobb | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1958 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Henry Fonda | Nominee |
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15 awards — 12 Angry Men
×| Golden Bear | Sidney Lumet | Winner |
| Best Written Drama | Reginald Rose | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Henry Fonda | Nominee |
| Best Director | Sidney Lumet | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | 12 Angry Men | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Lee J. Cobb | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Reginald Rose | Nominee |
| Best Director | Sidney Lumet | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actor | Henry Fonda | Winner |
| Best Film | 12 Angry Men | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Sidney Lumet | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | Reginald Rose | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | 12 Angry Men | Winner |
| Prix International | 12 Angry Men | Winner |