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Blazing Saddles
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1117
- IMDb #706
- Google retired #449
- Rotten Tomatoes #584
- Metacritic #991
- Letterboxd #1115
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1150
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #520
- Metacritic Critics #1234
- Metacritic Audience #794
- Criticker #621
- Kinopoisk #3413
- AlloCiné #3286
- Trakt #843
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →To ruin a town and force its residents out for a railroad line, a corrupt political boss appoints a Black man as the new sheriff of Rock Ridge. He expects the racist townsfolk to be outraged. The quick-witted sheriff, along with a drunken gunslinger, must overcome the town's prejudice and outsmart the boss's henchmen to save the day, breaking the fourth wall and every rule of the Western genre in the process.
Details
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Writers
- Alan Uger, Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Richard Pryor
- Released
- 7 February 1974
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Yiddish, German
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.6M
- Box office
- $119.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 8 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1974 | Best Comedy – Written Directly for the Screenplay | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1974 | Best Supporting Actress | Madeline Kahn | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1974 | Best Film Editing | John C. Howard and Danford B. Greene | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1974 | Best Song | "Blazing Saddles" Music by John Morris ; Lyrics by Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1974 | Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | Cleavon Little | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1974 | Best Screenplay | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1974 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| Online Film & Television Association Awards 1974 | Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |
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8 awards — Blazing Saddles
×| Best Comedy – Written Directly for the Screenplay | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger | Winner |
| Best Film Editing | John C. Howard and Danford B. Greene | Nominee |
| Best Song | "Blazing Saddles" Music by John Morris ; Lyrics by Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Madeline Kahn | Nominee |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger | Nominee |
| Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | Cleavon Little | Nominee |