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Backdraft
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2792
- IMDb #2898
- Rotten Tomatoes #2142
- Metacritic #3729
- Letterboxd #2949
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2634
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2111
- Metacritic Critics #4346
- Metacritic Audience #2173
- Criticker #2350
- Douban #1301
- Kinopoisk #875
- AlloCiné #2106
- Trakt #2406
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 39, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 56, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two Chicago firefighter brothers, who have a long-standing rivalry, must put their differences aside to investigate a series of deadly fires. These blazes appear to be the work of a pyromaniac who uses a mysterious and lethal phenomenon known as "backdraft" as a weapon.
Details
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writer
- Gregory Widen
- Released
- 24 May 1991
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $152.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound Editing | Gary Rydstrom | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound Editing | Richard Hymns | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound | Gary Rydstrom | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound | Gary Summers | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound | Randy Thom | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Sound | Glenn Williams | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Visual Effects | Scott Farrar | Nominee |
| 64th Academy Awards 1992 | Best Visual Effects | Mikael Salomon | Nominee |
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10 awards — Backdraft
×| Best Sound | Gary Rydstrom | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Gary Summers | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Randy Thom | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Glenn Williams | Nominee |
| Best Sound Editing | Gary Rydstrom | Nominee |
| Best Sound Editing | Richard Hymns | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Scott Farrar | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Mikael Salomon | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Allen Hall | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Clay Pinney | Nominee |