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Changeling
2008
· Movie
· 141 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1283
- IMDb #693
- Google retired #374
- Rotten Tomatoes #2294
- Metacritic #1717
- Letterboxd #1333
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3259
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1421
- Metacritic Critics #2135
- Metacritic Audience #1050
- Criticker #1036
- Douban #353
- Kinopoisk #399
- AlloCiné #209
- Trakt #834
Every rating
57–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 57, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 62, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1928 Los Angeles, a single mother returns home to find her young son missing. Months later, the police miraculously return a boy to her, but she insists he is not her child. Her desperate attempts to uncover the truth see her branded as delusional and institutionalized by a corrupt police force determined to cover up its mistake.
Details
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Writer
- J. Michael Straczynski
- Based on
- Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
- Released
- 24 October 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $55.0M
- Box office
- $113.4M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 33 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 41 →8 wins from 41 nominations across 20 ceremonies
| 14th Critics' Choice Awards 2008 | Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| 14th Critics' Choice Awards 2008 | Best Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
| 14th Critics' Choice Awards 2008 | Best Picture | Nominee | |
| 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2008 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| 2008 Art Directors Guild Awards 2008 | Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film | James Murakami | Nominee |
| 66th Golden Globe Awards 2008 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| 66th Golden Globe Awards 2008 | Best Original Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
| 6th Irish Film and Television Academy Awards 2008 | Best International Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
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14th Critics' Choice Awards
3 nominations
| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Nominee | |
| Best Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
81st Academy Awards
3 nominations
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction | James Murakami, Gary Fettis | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Tom Stern | Nominee |
66th Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
2008 Art Directors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film | James Murakami | Nominee |
6th Irish Film and Television Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
2008 Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture | Romain Bayle, Abel Milanes, Allan Lee, Debora Dunphy | Winner |
| Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture | Michael Owens, Geoffrey Hancock, Jinnie Pak, Dennis Hoffman | Winner |
2008 Women Film Critics' Circle Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Adrienne Shelly Award | Winner | |
| Best Film About Women | Winner |
35th Saturn Awards
6 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Winner |
| Best Action, Adventure or Thriller Film | Nominee | |
| Best Costume Design | Deborah Hopper | Nominee |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
| Best Music | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
| Best Writing | J. Michael Straczynski | Nominee |
2008 Satellite Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Angelina Jolie | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Tom Stern | Nominee |
2008 African American Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Winner |
60th Christopher Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Feature Films | Winner |
62nd British Academy Film Awards
8 nominations
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Tom Stern | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Deborah Hopper | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | J. Michael Straczynski | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | James Murakami, Gary Fettis | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff | Nominee |
2008 London Film Critics' Circle Awards
2 nominations
| Actress of the Year | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Director of the Year | Clint Eastwood | Nominee |
11th Costume Designers Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Period Film | Deborah Hopper | Nominee |
2008 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
2009 Artios Award Nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Casting
1 nomination
| Big Budget Feature – Drama | Ellen Chenoweth | Nominee |
2009 Empire Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
2009 Japan Academy Prize
1 nomination
| Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
2009 Rembrandt Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Actress | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |