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Double Indemnity
1944
· Movie
· 107 min
A
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #76
- IMDb #100
- Google retired #1633
- Rotten Tomatoes #50
- Metacritic #48
- Letterboxd #157
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #191
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #99
- Metacritic Critics #68
- Metacritic Audience #133
- Criticker #51
- Douban #326
- Kinopoisk #403
- AlloCiné #153
- Trakt #259
Every rating
76–97
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 76, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An insurance salesman is seduced by a beautiful woman into plotting the murder of her husband. They devise a perfect plan to make the death look like an accident so they can collect the double indemnity clause in his insurance policy. Their scheme begins to unravel due to the suspicions of a claims adjuster and their own growing distrust of each other.
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
- Based on
- Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 6 July 1944
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $927.3K
- Box office
- $2.5M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →2 wins from 11 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Motion Picture | Paramount Pictures | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Director | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Actress | Barbara Stanwyck | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Screenplay | Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Cinematography – Black and White | John F. Seitz | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Miklós Rózsa | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Sound Recording | Loren Ryder | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1944 | National Film Registry | Winner |
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Academy Awards
7 nominations
| Best Actress | Barbara Stanwyck | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Black and White | John F. Seitz | Nominee |
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture | Paramount Pictures | Nominee |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Miklós Rózsa | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler | Nominee |
| Best Sound Recording | Loren Ryder | Nominee |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |
Online Film & Television Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actress | Barbara Stanwyck | Nominee |
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Nominee |