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Bicycle Thieves
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #73
- IMDb #155
- Google retired #469
- Rotten Tomatoes #33
- Letterboxd #142
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #76
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 99, everyone else 85.
See the most agreed on films →In post-World War II Rome, a poor man finally finds a job that requires a bicycle. When his precious bicycle is stolen on his first day of work, his livelihood is threatened. With his young son beside him, he embarks on a desperate journey through the city's streets to find the thief and recover his bicycle, a quest that becomes increasingly hopeless.
Details
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Studio
- Produzioni De Sica
- Released
- 21 July 1948
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian, German
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $133.0K
- Box office
- $450.2K
- Awards
- 3 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →3 wins from 6 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| 22nd Academy Awards 1950 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Cesare Zavattini | Nominee |
| BAFTA Award 1950 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| Golden Globe Award 1949 | Best Non-English Language Film | Nominee | |
| 22nd Academy Awards 1948 | Academy Honorary Award | Winner | |
| National Board of Review Award 1948 | Best Film | Winner | |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1948 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — Bicycle Thieves
×| Academy Honorary Award | Winner | |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Cesare Zavattini | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
| Best Non-English Language Film | Nominee |
| Best Film | Winner |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |