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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
MEANRANK
88/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #23
- IMDb #88
- Google retired #733
- Rotten Tomatoes #47
- Metacritic #14
- Letterboxd #123
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #109
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #149
- Metacritic Critics #31
- Metacritic Audience #40
- Douban #104
- Kinopoisk #292
- AlloCiné #385
- Trakt #237
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 80, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98.
See the most agreed on films →A paranoid U.S. Air Force general, acting on his own, orders a nuclear bomber squadron to attack targets inside the Soviet Union. The American President and his advisors, including a strange German scientist, frantically try to recall the planes to prevent a global apocalypse. Their efforts are complicated by the Soviet's secret "Doomsday Device," which is designed to automatically destroy all life on Earth if a nuclear strike occurs, leading to a frantic and absurd political and military comedy of errors.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writers
- Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
- Based on
- Red Alert by Peter George
- Studio
- Hawk Films, Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 29 January 1964
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, Russian
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $9.5M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (22) →
Awards & nominations
See all 18 →5 major awards won · 9 wins from 18 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| BAFTA Awards 1964 | UN Award | Winner | |
| BAFTA Awards 1964 | Best Art Direction (Black and White) | Ken Adam | Winner |
| BAFTA Awards 1964 | Best Film From Any Source | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| BAFTA Awards 1964 | Best British Film | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1964 | Best Written American Comedy | Winner | |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Actor | Peter Sellers | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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18 awards — Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
×| Best Art Direction (Black and White) | Ken Adam | Winner |
| Best British Film | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Best Film From Any Source | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| UN Award | Winner | |
| Best British Actor | Peter Sellers | Nominee |
| Best British Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actor | Sterling Hayden | Nominee |
| Best Written American Comedy | Winner |
| Best Actor | Peter Sellers | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Best Film | Nominee | |
| Best Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| Grand Prix | Winner |
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Winner |
| Best Foreign Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |