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Casablanca
MEANRANK
89/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #19
- IMDb #48
- Google retired #363
- Rotten Tomatoes #15
- Metacritic #6
- Letterboxd #139
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #59
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #76
- Metacritic Critics #5
- Metacritic Audience #62
- Criticker #44
- Douban #187
- Kinopoisk #244
- AlloCiné #132
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Metacritic critics on 100. Critics average 100, everyone else 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A cynical American expatriate runs a popular nightclub in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca during the early days of World War II. His neutral stance is tested when his former lover, who left him in Paris, arrives with her Resistance leader husband. They need letters of transit to escape to America, forcing the café owner to choose between love and virtue.
Details
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Writers
- Howard E. Koch, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
- Based on
- Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 15 January 1943
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $878.0K
- Box office
- $10.5M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 8 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →3 major awards won · 5 wins from 13 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1942 | Outstanding Motion Picture | Warner Bros. | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Director | Michael Curtiz | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Screenplay | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Supporting Actor | Claude Rains | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Arthur Edeson | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Film Editing | Owen Marks | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1942 | Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Max Steiner | Nominee |
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13 awards — Casablanca
×| Best Director | Michael Curtiz | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch | Winner |
| Outstanding Motion Picture | Warner Bros. | Winner |
| Best Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Arthur Edeson | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Owen Marks | Nominee |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Max Steiner | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Claude Rains | Nominee |
| Best Director | Michael Curtiz (also for This Is the Army ) | Winner |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Best Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Nominee |
| Best Director | Michael Curtiz | Nominee |
| Best DVD Classic Film Release | Casablanca: Ultimate Collector's Edition | Nominee |