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Carrie
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1069
- IMDb #1228
- Google retired #1849
- Rotten Tomatoes #1024
- Metacritic #382
- Letterboxd #943
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #538
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1903
- Metacritic Critics #342
- Metacritic Audience #763
- Criticker #1026
- Douban #1051
- Kinopoisk #2021
- AlloCiné #1142
- Trakt #1507
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 57, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 90, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A painfully shy and socially outcast teenage girl is tormented by her cruel classmates and suppressed by her fanatically religious mother. She begins to discover she has latent telekinetic powers, the ability to move objects with her mind, which grow stronger with her emotional turmoil. After a particularly humiliating prank at her senior prom pushes her past her breaking point, her powers are unleashed in a devastating and catastrophic response to the years of bullying and oppression she has endured.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writer
- Lawrence D. Cohen
- Based on
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Studio
- United Artists
- Released
- 3 November 1976
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $33.8M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →3 wins from 9 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1976 | Best Supporting Actress | Piper Laurie | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1976 | Best Actress | Sissy Spacek | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1976 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Piper Laurie | Nominee |
| Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival 1976 | Grand Prize | Brian De Palma | Winner |
| Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival 1976 | Special Mention | Sissy Spacek | Winner |
| Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Lawrence D. Cohen | Nominee |
| Hugo Awards 1976 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen; Based on the novel by Stephen King | Nominee |
| National Society of Film Critics Awards 1976 | Best Actress | Sissy Spacek | Winner |
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9 awards — Carrie
×| Best Actress | Sissy Spacek | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Piper Laurie | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Piper Laurie | Nominee |
| Grand Prize | Brian De Palma | Winner |
| Special Mention | Sissy Spacek | Winner |
| Best Actress | Sissy Spacek | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | Lawrence D. Cohen | Nominee |
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen; Based on the novel by Stephen King | Nominee |
| Best Horror Film | Nominee |