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Dumbo
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #231
- IMDb #232
- Google retired #388
- Rotten Tomatoes #185
- Metacritic #22
- Letterboxd #345
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #92
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #300
- Metacritic Critics #7
- Metacritic Audience #158
- Criticker #137
- AlloCiné #213
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 51, highest is Metacritic critics on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A baby elephant with unusually large ears is delivered to a circus, where he is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo" and separated from his mother. He becomes the laughingstock of the show until a mouse discovers that his ears allow him to fly. With newfound confidence, the young elephant goes from being a ridiculed outcast to becoming the circus's main attraction.
Details
- Directors
- Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, Samuel Armstrong, Wilfred Jackson
- Writers
- Dick Huemer, Joe Grant
- Based on
- Dumbo, the Flying Elephant by Helen Aberson
- Studio
- Walt Disney Productions
- Released
- 31 October 1941
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 64 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $812.0K
- Box office
- $1.6M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →2 major awards won · 4 wins from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1941 | Best Scoring of a Musical Picture | Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1941 | Best Animation Design | Ben Sharpsteen | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1941 | Best Original Song | " Baby Mine " Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Ned Washington | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1941 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| Online Film & Television Association Awards 1941 | Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |
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5 awards — Dumbo
×| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture | Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace | Winner |
| Best Original Song | " Baby Mine " Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Ned Washington | Nominee |
| Best Animation Design | Ben Sharpsteen | Winner |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |