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Dead Man
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1213
- IMDb #1075
- Google retired #1617
- Rotten Tomatoes #1717
- Metacritic #1916
- Letterboxd #786
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2761
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #754
- Metacritic Critics #2282
- Metacritic Audience #1411
- Criticker #385
- Douban #654
- Kinopoisk #498
- AlloCiné #919
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 88. Critics average 66, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A wounded accountant flees into the unforgiving American wilderness after a fatal shootout in a frontier town. He is guided by an outcast Native American who believes the man is a mystical figure. Their journey is a surreal and philosophical odyssey through a savage landscape, where they encounter strange characters and violent bounty hunters. The man slowly sheds his civilized identity as he drifts closer to the afterlife.
Details
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Writer
- Jim Jarmusch
- Released
- 23 December 1995
- Country
- United States, Germany, Japan
- Language
- English, Cree
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $1.0M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →4 wins from 13 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| Palme d'Or 1995 | Palme d'Or | Jim Jarmusch | Nominee |
| Best Actor 1997 | Best Actor | Gary Farmer | Winner |
| Best Cinematography 1997 | Best Cinematography | Robby Müller | Nominee |
| Best Director 1997 | Best Director | Jim Jarmusch | Nominee |
| Best Film 1997 | Best Film | Demetra J. MacBride | Nominee |
| Best Film 1997 | Best Film | Dead Man | Nominee |
| Best Original Score 1997 | Best Original Score | Neil Young | Nominee |
| Best Picture 1997 | Best Picture | Dead Man | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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13 awards — Dead Man
×| Palme d'Or | Jim Jarmusch | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Gary Farmer | Winner |
| Best Cinematographer | Robby Müller | Winner |
| Best Non-European Film | Jim Jarmusch | Winner |
| Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Film (Lead) | Gary Farmer | Winner |
| Best Film | Demetra J. MacBride | Nominee |
| Best Film | Dead Man | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Robby Müller | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jim Jarmusch | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Neil Young | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Dead Man | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Jim Jarmusch | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Male | Gary Farmer | Nominee |