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Barry Lyndon
1975
· Movie
· 185 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #172
- IMDb #235
- Google retired #1551
- Rotten Tomatoes #1093
- Metacritic #113
- Letterboxd #43
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2179
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #334
- Metacritic Critics #224
- Metacritic Audience #104
- Criticker #90
- Douban #149
- Kinopoisk #257
- AlloCiné #59
- Trakt #357
Every rating
74–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An Irish rogue uses his charm and cunning to climb the social ladder of 18th-century European society. His ambitious journey takes him from a humble background through various armies and across countries, eventually marrying a wealthy widow to secure a title. However, his rise to aristocracy is plagued by his own flaws and the resentment of the upper class.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Stanley Kubrick
- Based on
- The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Hawk Films, Peregrine
- Released
- 16 December 1975
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, German, French
- Runtime
- 185 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $11.0M
- Box office
- $31.5M
- Awards
- 13 wins, 11 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 24 →4 major awards won · 13 wins from 24 nominations across 11 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Ken Adam and Roy Walker ; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Costume Design | Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation | Leonard Rosenman | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1975 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| César Awards 1975 | Best Foreign Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
7 nominations, 4 won
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Ken Adam and Roy Walker ; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund | Winner |
| Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation | Leonard Rosenman | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee |
César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
National Board of Review Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Top Ten Films | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
5 nominations, 2 won
| Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Ken Adam | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
British Society of Cinematographers
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
National Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | John Alcott | Winner |
Sant Jordi Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |