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Back to the Future
1985
· Movie
· 116 min
A
MEANRANK
88/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #32
- IMDb #39
- Google retired #98
- Rotten Tomatoes #147
- Metacritic #63
- Letterboxd #196
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #651
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #72
- Metacritic Critics #251
- Metacritic Audience #16
- Criticker #169
- Douban #135
- Kinopoisk #15
- AlloCiné #14
- Trakt #31
Every rating
71–96
out of 100
A teenage musician is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by an eccentric scientist. He must ensure his teenage parents meet and fall in love, or he will cease to exist. Complicating matters, his mother develops a crush on him instead of his father.
Details
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Writers
- Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
- Released
- 3 July 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $391.5M
- Awards
- 13 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 19 →2 major awards won · 13 wins from 19 nominations across 10 ceremonies
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound Editing | Charles L. Campbell | Winner |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound Editing | Robert Rutledge | Winner |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Bob Gale | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound | William B. Kaplan | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound | B. Tennyson Sebastian II | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound | Bill Varney | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Sound | Robert Thirlwell | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Robert Zemeckis | Nominee |
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58th Academy Awards
8 nominations, 2 won
| Best Sound Editing | Charles L. Campbell | Winner |
| Best Sound Editing | Robert Rutledge | Winner |
| Best Sound | William B. Kaplan | Nominee |
| Best Sound | B. Tennyson Sebastian II | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Bill Varney | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Robert Thirlwell | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Bob Gale | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Robert Zemeckis | Nominee |
13th Saturn Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor | Michael J. Fox | Winner |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Winner | |
| Best Special Effects | Winner |
David di Donatello
1 nomination, 1 won
| David di Donatello | Winner |
Goldene Leinwand
1 nomination, 1 won
| Goldene Leinwand | Winner |
Hugo Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Winner |
International Film Music Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| International Film Music Critics Association Awards | Winner |
Japan Academy Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Winner |
Jupiter Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Jupiter Awards | Winner |
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
Young Artist Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Young Artist Awards | Winner |