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Carlito's Way
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #446
- IMDb #426
- Google retired #446
- Rotten Tomatoes #832
- Metacritic #1122
- Letterboxd #373
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1686
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #421
- Metacritic Critics #1863
- Metacritic Audience #282
- Criticker #381
- Douban #204
- Kinopoisk #375
- AlloCiné #122
- Trakt #479
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 66, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A powerful Puerto Rican gangster is released from prison on a legal technicality, determined to leave his criminal life behind and build a new future running a legitimate business. Despite his best intentions, he is relentlessly pulled back into the violent underworld by the demands of his loyalties to his reckless lawyer and his former associates, threatening his dream of escape.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writer
- David Koepp
- Released
- 10 November 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $63.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 win from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Sean Penn | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Penelope Ann Miller | Nominee |
| CFCA Award 1993 | Best Supporting Actor | Sean Penn | Nominee |
| David di Donatello Awards 1993 | Best Foreign Actor | Al Pacino | Nominee |
| Nastro d'Argento 1993 | Best Male Dubbing | Giancarlo Giannini (for dubbing Al Pacino in the Italian version) | Winner |
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5 awards — Carlito's Way
×| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Sean Penn | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Penelope Ann Miller | Nominee |
| Best Male Dubbing | Giancarlo Giannini (for dubbing Al Pacino in the Italian version) | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Sean Penn | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actor | Al Pacino | Nominee |