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Deliverance
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #983
- IMDb #876
- Google retired #1863
- Rotten Tomatoes #991
- Metacritic #784
- Letterboxd #890
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1052
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1460
- Metacritic Critics #709
- Metacritic Audience #1263
- Criticker #562
- Douban #1197
- Kinopoisk #1845
- AlloCiné #403
- Trakt #1573
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Four city men embark on a canoe trip down a remote, soon-to-be-dammed river in the Georgia wilderness. They are seeking one last adventure in nature. Their journey quickly turns into a nightmare when they have a violent encounter with a pair of menacing backwoods locals. Injured and isolated deep within the dangerous river canyon, the civilized men are forced to revert to primal instincts to survive the trip back to civilization.
Details
- Director
- John Boorman
- Writer
- James Dickey
- Based on
- Deliverance by James Dickey
- Released
- 18 August 1972
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $46.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 13 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →1 win from 14 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1972 | Best Director | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1972 | Best Film Editing | Tom Priestley | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1972 | Best Picture | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1972 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1972 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| Golden Globe Awards 1972 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Jon Voight | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1972 | Best Director – Motion Picture | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1972 | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | James Dickey | Nominee |
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14 awards — Deliverance
×| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Jon Voight | Nominee |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| Best Original Song – Motion Picture | " Dueling Banjos " Music by Arthur Smith ; Adaptation by Eric Weissberg | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | James Dickey | Nominee |
| Best Director | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Tom Priestley | Nominee |
| Best Picture | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | John Boorman | Nominee |
| Best Drama – Adapted from Another Medium | James Dickey | Nominee |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Tom Priestley | Nominee |
| Best Soundtrack | Jim Atkinson, Walter Goss, and Doug Turner | Nominee |