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Apocalypse Now
1979
· Movie
· 147 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #59
- IMDb #65
- Google retired #1047
- Rotten Tomatoes #290
- Metacritic #36
- Letterboxd #33
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #897
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #142
- Metacritic Critics #94
- Metacritic Audience #59
- Criticker #43
- Douban #313
- Kinopoisk #133
- AlloCiné #49
- Trakt #174
Every rating
76–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Metacritic critics on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →During the Vietnam War, a special operations captain is sent on a dangerous and clandestine mission into the Cambodian jungle. His orders are to locate and terminate a renegade Green Beret colonel who has gone insane and established himself as a god among a local tribe.
Details
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writers
- Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius
- Based on
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Studio
- American Zoetrope
- Released
- 19 May 1979
- Country
- United States, Philippines
- Language
- English, French, Vietnamese
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $31.5M
- Box office
- $150.0M
- Awards
- 11 wins, 18 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 29 →6 major awards won · 11 wins from 29 nominations across 11 ceremonies
| 1979 Cannes Film Festival 1979 | Palme d'Or | Apocalypse Now | Winner |
| 37th Golden Globe Awards 1979 | Best Director | Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
| 37th Golden Globe Awards 1979 | Best Supporting Actor | Robert Duvall | Winner |
| 37th Golden Globe Awards 1979 | Best Original Score | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
| 52nd Academy Awards 1979 | Best Sound | Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer | Winner |
| 52nd Academy Awards 1979 | Best Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro | Winner |
| 22nd Annual Grammy Awards 1979 | Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
| 32nd Directors Guild of America Awards 1979 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
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37th Golden Globe Awards
4 nominations, 3 won
| Best Director | Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert Duvall | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, and Tom Sternberg | Nominee |
52nd Academy Awards
8 nominations, 2 won
| Best Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro | Winner |
| Best Sound | Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Robert Duvall | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis and Angelo P. Graham ; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson | Nominee |
| Best Director | Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, and Tom Sternberg | Nominee |
| Best Writing – Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
1979 Cannes Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Palme d'Or | Apocalypse Now | Winner |
22nd Annual Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
32nd Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
32nd Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
5th César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
33rd British Academy Film Awards
9 nominations, 2 won
| Best Direction | Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert Duvall | Winner |
| Best Actor | Martin Sheen | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, and Lisa Fruchtman | Nominee |
| Best Film | Apocalypse Now | Nominee |
| Best Original Film Music | Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Dean Tavoularis | Nominee |
| Best Soundtrack | Nathan Boxer, Richard Cirincione, Walter Murch | Nominee |
1979 National Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Frederic Forrest | Winner |
David di Donatello Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero) | Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film of the Year | Francis Ford Coppola | Winner |