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Easy Rider
1969
· Movie
· 95 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1199
- IMDb #1713
- Google retired #2684
- Rotten Tomatoes #1304
- Metacritic #589
- Letterboxd #1235
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1682
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1444
- Metacritic Critics #413
- Metacritic Audience #1410
- Criticker #960
- Douban #507
- Kinopoisk #1061
- AlloCiné #1160
- Trakt #2425
Every rating
58–85
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 58, highest is Metacritic critics on 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two freewheeling bikers sell drugs to finance a cross-country motorcycle trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. Along the open road, they encounter a landscape of hippie communes, small-town bigotry, and a drifting lawyer, exploring the limits of freedom in a changing nation.
Details
- Director
- Dennis Hopper
- Writers
- Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern
- Released
- 26 June 1969
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $400.0K
- Box office
- $60.0M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 12 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 20 →1 major award won · 8 wins from 20 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 1969 | Best First Work | Dennis Hopper | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1969 | Best Original Screenplay | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1969 | Best Supporting Actor | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 1969 | Palme d'Or | Dennis Hopper | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1969 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Dennis Hopper | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1969 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1969 | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1969 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |
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Cannes Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best First Work | Dennis Hopper | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | Dennis Hopper | Nominee |
Academy Awards
2 nominations
| Best Original Screenplay | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Dennis Hopper | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern | Nominee |
National Society of Film Critics Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Nicholson | Winner |
| Special Award | Dennis Hopper ("For his achievements as director, co-writer and co-star.") | Winner |
Laurel Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Top Male Supporting Performance | Jack Nicholson | Winner |
| Male New Face | Peter Fonda | Nominee |
| Top Cinematographer | László Kovács | Nominee |
Kansas City Film Circle Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Nicholson | Winner |
Kinema Junpo Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Dennis Hopper | Winner |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Nicholson | Winner |
Satellite Awards
3 nominations
| Best Classic DVD | Nominee | |
| Best DVD Extras | Nominee | |
| Outstanding Overall DVD | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Jack Nicholson | Nominee |