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2012
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4539
- IMDb #4647
- Google retired #2041
- Rotten Tomatoes #4072
- Metacritic #3985
- Letterboxd #5016
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4276
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4166
- Metacritic Critics #3491
- Metacritic Audience #4339
- Criticker #3887
- Douban #609
- Kinopoisk #2847
- AlloCiné #4191
- Trakt #3906
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Lowest is Criticker on 23, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 44, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A writer discovers that the Earth's core is heating up at an alarming rate, a prophecy from the ancient Mayan calendar is coming true, and the world's governments are secretly building massive arks to save a select few. He must race against time to get his family to safety as the planet's crust begins to destabilize, causing global catastrophes.
Details
- Director
- Roland Emmerich
- Writers
- Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
- Based on
- 2012 phenomenon
- Released
- 10 October 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 158 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $200.0M
- Box office
- $791.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 12 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Visual Effects | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vézina | Nominee |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors 2009 | Best Sound Editing – Music in a Feature Film | Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb | Nominee |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors 2009 | Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film | Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb | Nominee |
| NAACP Image Award 2009 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| NAACP Image Award 2009 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Danny Glover | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2009 | Best Art Direction and Production Design | Barry Chusid, Elizabeth Wilcox | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2009 | Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) | Paul N.J. Ottosson, Michael McGee, Rick Kline, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Michael Keller | Winner |
| Satellite Awards 2009 | Best Visual Effects | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vézina | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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14 awards — 2012
×| Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) | Paul N.J. Ottosson, Michael McGee, Rick Kline, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Michael Keller | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vézina | Winner |
| Best Art Direction and Production Design | Barry Chusid, Elizabeth Wilcox | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | David Brenner, Peter S. Elliot | Nominee |
| Best Single Visual Effect of the Year | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Josh R. Jaggars, Mohen Leo for "Escape from L.A." | Nominee |
| Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture | Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Marten Larsson, Ryo Sakaguchi, Hanzhi Tang for "Los Angeles Destruction" | Nominee |
| Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Josh Jaggars | Nominee |
| Best Sound Editing – Music in a Feature Film | Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb | Nominee |
| Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film | Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Danny Glover | Nominee |
| Best Action, Adventure, or Thriller Film | 2012 | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vézina | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vézina | Nominee |