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Back to the Future Part II
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1026
- IMDb #520
- Google retired #1487
- Rotten Tomatoes #2067
- Metacritic #1699
- Letterboxd #744
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3178
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #961
- Metacritic Critics #2766
- Metacritic Audience #313
- Criticker #681
- Douban #312
- Kinopoisk #62
- AlloCiné #81
- Trakt #157
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 57, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 60, everyone else 81.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The time-traveling duo travels thirty years into the future to prevent a catastrophe from happening to their children. Their actions in the future create an alternate, dystopian 1985 that they must fix. They have to return to the events of the original adventure to restore the timeline.
Details
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Writers
- Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
- Released
- 22 November 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $332.9M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →4 major awards won · 4 wins from 10 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| BAFTA Award 1990 | Best Special Visual Effects | Ken Ralston | Winner |
| BAFTA Award 1990 | Best Special Visual Effects | Michael Lantieri | Winner |
| BAFTA Award 1990 | Best Special Visual Effects | Steve Gawley | Winner |
| BAFTA Award 1990 | Best Special Visual Effects | John Bell | Winner |
| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Visual Effects | John Bell | Nominee |
| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Visual Effects | Ken Ralston | Nominee |
| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Visual Effects | Michael Lantieri | Nominee |
| 62nd Academy Awards 1990 | Best Visual Effects | Steve Gawley | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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10 awards — Back to the Future Part II
×| Best Special Visual Effects | Ken Ralston | Winner |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Michael Lantieri | Winner |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Steve Gawley | Winner |
| Best Special Visual Effects | John Bell | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | John Bell | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Ken Ralston | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Michael Lantieri | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Steve Gawley | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie | Nominee |
| Best Costume | Nominee |