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All About My Mother
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83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #276
- IMDb #589
- Rotten Tomatoes #61
- Metacritic #235
- Letterboxd #240
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #108
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #236
- Metacritic Critics #287
- Metacritic Audience #348
- Criticker #341
- Douban #322
- Kinopoisk #693
- AlloCiné #868
- Trakt #888
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Lowest is Criticker on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98.
See the most agreed on films →A single mother's life is shattered when her teenage son is killed in an accident. To fulfill his last wish, she journeys to Barcelona to find the boy's father, a transgender woman who does not know the son existed. She finds solace in a community of vibrant women, including a pregnant nun and a legendary actress, who help her grieve and rebuild her life.
Details
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Writer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Studio
- El Deseo, Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma
- Released
- 16 April 1999
- Country
- Spain, France
- Language
- Spanish, Catalan
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $68.0M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →2 major awards won · 9 wins from 11 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| 72nd Academy Awards 2000 | Best International Feature Film | Winner | |
| César Award 1999 | Best Foreign Film | Winner | |
| Goya Award 2000 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2000 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Spain | Nominee |
| 12th European Film Awards 1999 | Best Film | France 2 Cinéma | Winner |
| 12th European Film Awards 1999 | Best Film | Pedro Almodóvar | Winner |
| 12th European Film Awards 1999 | Best Film | El Deseo | Winner |
| 12th European Film Awards 1999 | Best Actress | Cecilia Roth | Winner |
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11 awards — All About My Mother
×| Best International Feature Film | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
| Best Film | Nominee |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Spain | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Cecilia Roth | Winner |
| Best Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Winner |
| Best Film | France 2 Cinéma | Winner |
| Best Film | Pedro Almodóvar | Winner |
| Best Film | El Deseo | Winner |
| Best Film | Renn Productions | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |