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Blood Diamond
2006
· Movie
· 143 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #965
- IMDb #308
- Google retired #124
- Rotten Tomatoes #1877
- Metacritic #1329
- Letterboxd #1292
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3086
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #498
- Metacritic Critics #2017
- Metacritic Audience #391
- Criticker #937
- Douban #174
- Kinopoisk #650
- AlloCiné #325
- Trakt #435
Every rating
58–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 58, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 64, everyone else 81.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A cynical South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman are thrown together in civil war-torn Sierra Leone. The fisherman has been forced to work in the diamond fields after his family was taken. The mercenary learns of a rare, massive pink diamond the fisherman has hidden. They form an uneasy alliance to retrieve the stone and find the fisherman's family.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Writers
- C. Gaby Mitchell, Charles Leavitt
- Studio
- Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group
- Released
- 8 December 2006
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English, Mende, Afrikaans
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $100.0M
- Box office
- $171.7M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 17 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 20 →3 wins from 20 nominations across 11 ceremonies
| 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007 | — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
| 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007 | — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| 64th Golden Globe Awards 2007 | — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | — | Steven Rosenblum | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | — | Lon Bender | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | — | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
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79th Academy Awards
5 nominations
| — | Steven Rosenblum | Nominee |
| — | Lon Bender | Nominee |
| — | Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock | Nominee |
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
13th Screen Actors Guild Awards
2 nominations
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
64th Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2006
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Winner |
National Board of Review Awards 2006
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Winner |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2006
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Winner |
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006
3 nominations
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| — | Nominee | |
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
3 nominations
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
| — | Nominee | |
| — | Djimon Hounsou | Nominee |
Satellite Awards 2006
1 nomination
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominee |
Teen Choice Awards
1 nomination
| — | Leonardo DiCaprio (Also for The Departed ) | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards 2006
1 nomination
| — | Jeffrey A. Okun, Thomas Boland, Tim Crosbie, Neil Greenberg | Nominee |