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DragonHeart
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3584
- IMDb #3651
- Rotten Tomatoes #3505
- Metacritic #3105
- Letterboxd #3578
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3971
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3344
- Metacritic Critics #3520
- Metacritic Audience #2231
- Criticker #2973
- Douban #1790
- Kinopoisk #756
- AlloCiné #2922
- Trakt #2989
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 35, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 48, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The last dragon and a disillusioned knight form an unlikely partnership. The knight now makes a living by staging fake dragon slayings for the dragon's gold, as the two share a unique life-force bond. Their scheme is threatened when they discover the kingdom is being terrorized by a tyrannical king, forcing them to join a rebellion and fight for a truly righteous cause.
Details
- Director
- Rob Cohen
- Writers
- Charles Edward Pogue, Patrick Read Johnson
- Released
- 31 May 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $57.0M
- Box office
- $115.3M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →3 wins from 13 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1996 | Best Effects, Visual Effects | Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, and Kit West | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 1996 | Best Individual Achievement: Animation | Rob Coleman | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 1996 | Best Individual Achievement: Voice Acting | Sean Connery | Nominee |
| Hollywood Film Awards 1996 | Hollywood Digital Award | Scott Squires | Winner |
| Online Film & Television Association 1996 | Best Voice-Over Performance | Sean Connery | Winner |
| Online Film & Television Association 1996 | Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Picture | Raffaella De Laurentiis | Nominee |
| Online Film & Television Association 1996 | Best Visual Effects | Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, Kit West | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 1996 | Outstanding Visual Effects | Scott Squires | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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13 awards — DragonHeart
×| Best Effects, Visual Effects | Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, and Kit West | Nominee |
| Best Fantasy Film | Universal Pictures | Winner |
| Best Costumes | Thomas Casterline and Anna B. Sheppard | Nominee |
| Best Music | Randy Edelman | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, and Kit West | Nominee |
| Best Voice-Over Performance | Sean Connery | Winner |
| Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Picture | Raffaella De Laurentiis | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, Kit West | Nominee |
| Hollywood Digital Award | Scott Squires | Winner |
| Best Individual Achievement: Animation | Rob Coleman | Nominee |
| Best Individual Achievement: Voice Acting | Sean Connery | Nominee |
| Outstanding Visual Effects | Scott Squires | Nominee |
| Best Film | Rob Cohen | Nominee |