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Dancer in the Dark
2000
· Movie
· 135 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #875
- IMDb #440
- Google retired #1929
- Rotten Tomatoes #1621
- Metacritic #1099
- Letterboxd #203
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2813
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #429
- Metacritic Critics #2158
- Metacritic Audience #102
- Criticker #383
- Douban #485
- Kinopoisk #295
- AlloCiné #1452
- Trakt #509
Every rating
63–91
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91. Critics average 66, everyone else 81.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A factory worker, who is slowly losing her eyesight, struggles to save enough money to pay for an operation that will prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. She escapes the harshness of her reality through her love for musicals. When a terrible tragedy strikes, her life begins to unravel, testing her resilience and her unwavering hope for a better future for her child.
Details
- Director
- Lars von Trier
- Writer
- Lars von Trier
- Studio
- Zentropa Entertainments, DR, SVT Drama, ARTE
- Released
- 1 September 2000
- Country
- Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
- Language
- English, German, Czech
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $12.5M
- Box office
- $40.1M
- Awards
- 17 wins, 13 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (69) →
Awards & nominations
See all 30 →4 major awards won · 17 wins from 30 nominations across 15 ceremonies
| Goya Awards 2001 | Best European Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2001 | Best Foreign Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2000 | Palme d'Or | Lars von Trier | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2000 | Best Actress | Björk | Winner |
| Academy Awards 2001 | Best Original Song | " I've Seen It All " – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón | Nominee |
| César Awards 2001 | Best Foreign Film | Lars von Trier | Nominee |
| Golden Globes 2001 | Best Original Song | "I've Seen It All" – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón | Nominee |
| Golden Globes 2001 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Björk | Nominee |
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Cannes Film Festival
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Björk | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | Lars von Trier | Winner |
Goya Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best European Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
Independent Spirit Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
Golden Globes
2 nominations
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Björk | Nominee |
| Best Original Song | "I've Seen It All" – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón | Nominee |
Grammy Awards
2 nominations
| Best Pop Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying A Vocalist(s) | Björk – "I've Seen It All" | Nominee |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Björk – "Overture" | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | " I've Seen It All " – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón | Nominee |
César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Lars von Trier | Nominee |
Robert Awards
6 nominations, 5 won
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Björk | Winner |
| Best Editing | Molly Marlene Steensgaard & Francois Gedigier | Winner |
| Best Production Design | Karl Juliusson | Winner |
| Best Score | Björk & Mark Bell | Winner |
| Best Sound Design | Per Streit | Winner |
| Best Director | Lars von Trier | Nominee |
European Film Awards
4 nominations, 4 won
| Best Actress | Björk | Winner |
| Best Actress – People's Choice | Björk | Winner |
| Best Director – People's Choice | Lars von Trier | Winner |
| Best Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
Bodil Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress | Björk | Winner |
| Best Danish Film | Lars von Trier | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Original Song | Björk – "I've Seen It All" | Winner |
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Björk | Nominee |
Japan Academy Film Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Lars von Trier | Winner |
National Board of Review Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance | Björk | Winner |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
3 nominations
| Best Actress | Björk | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Björk | Nominee |
| Most Promising Actress | Björk | Nominee |
Brit Awards
1 nomination
| Soundtrack/Cast Recording | Björk | Nominee |