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MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1810
- IMDb #1960
- Google retired #2848
- Rotten Tomatoes #1161
- Metacritic #1170
- Letterboxd #1614
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #540
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2158
- Metacritic Critics #1322
- Metacritic Audience #1049
- Criticker #558
- Douban #1173
- Kinopoisk #4213
- AlloCiné #2954
- Trakt #2972
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 83, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three teenagers live their entire lives confined within the isolated walls of their family's country estate. Their parents have constructed a bizarre and sheltered reality for them, teaching them a distorted vocabulary and that the outside world is incredibly dangerous. Their carefully controlled existence begins to fracture when the outside world slowly infiltrates their lives, introducing new ideas and desires that challenge their parents' authority.
Details
- Director
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Writers
- Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
- Released
- 22 October 2009
- Country
- Greece
- Language
- Greek
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $275.0K
- Box office
- $110.2K
- Awards
- 17 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 24 →7 major awards won · 17 wins from 24 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2009 | Prix de la Jeunesse | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2009 | Prix Un Certain Regard | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 | Best Post-Production | Yorgos Mavropsaridis | Winner |
| Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 | Best Feature Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 | Best Director | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 | Best Screenplay | Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | Winner |
| Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2009 | Best Supporting Actor | Christos Passalis | Winner |
| Academy Awards 2009 | Best Foreign Language Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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24 awards — Dogtooth
×| Best Director | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Feature Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Post-Production | Yorgos Mavropsaridis | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Christos Passalis | Winner |
| Award for Special Effects and Film Innovation | George and Roulis Alahouzos | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Christos Sterioglou | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Angeliki Papoulia | Nominee |
| Prix Un Certain Regard | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Prix de la Jeunesse | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture Fantastic Award | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Nominee |
| Heart of Sarajevo (Best Actress) | Angeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni | Winner |
| Special Jury Prize | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Dublin Film Critics Award | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Grande Premio | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Kingfisher Award | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Feature Film Award | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Director | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Bronze Horse | Yorgos Lanthimos | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Nominee |
| Best Film | Yorgos Lanthimos | Nominee |