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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
· Movie
· 132 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1499
- IMDb #1628
- Google retired #1716
- Rotten Tomatoes #1929
- Metacritic #1756
- Letterboxd #3260
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2440
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1733
- Metacritic Critics #1791
- Metacritic Audience #1671
- Douban #884
- Kinopoisk #1069
- AlloCiné #809
- Trakt #947
Every rating
64–86
out of 100
In 1926 New York City, a British magizoologist arrives with a suitcase full of magical creatures. Several of the creatures escape, and he must find them with the help of a non-magical baker and a demoted Auror. Their mission coincides with a mysterious Obscurus terrorizing the city and threatening to expose the wizarding world.
Details
- Director
- David Yates
- Writer
- J.K. Rowling
- Based on
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by Q34660
- Studio
- Heyday Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 16 November 2016
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, Central Khmer
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $180.0M
- Box office
- $809.3M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 29 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 38 →1 major award won · 9 wins from 38 nominations across 16 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2017 | Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Winner |
| Academy Awards 2017 | Best Production Design | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
| Art Directors Guild Awards 2017 | Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 | Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 | Best Art Direction | Stuart Craig, James Hambidge and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 | Best Visual Effects | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2016 | Best Hair and Makeup | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2017 | Best Sound | Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson and Ian Tapp | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Winner |
| Best Production Design | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
4 nominations
| Best Art Direction | Stuart Craig, James Hambidge and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
| Best Hair and Makeup | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
Art Directors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
Empire Awards
6 nominations, 4 won
| Best Actor | Eddie Redmayne | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Winner |
| Best Make-Up and Hairstyling | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Winner |
| Best Production Design | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Winner |
| Best British Film | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
7 nominations, 1 won
| Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Winner |
| Best Fantasy Film | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
| Best Make-up | Nick Knowles | Nominee |
| Best Music | James Newton Howard | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Tim Burke, Christian Manz and David Watkins | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Dan Fogler | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
5 nominations, 1 won
| Best Production Design | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Winner |
| Best British Film | David Heyman, Steve Kloves, J. K. Rowling, Lionel Wigram and David Yates | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson and Ian Tapp | Nominee |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz and David Watkins | Nominee |
Evening Standard British Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Editor's Award | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Winner |
People's Choice Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Favorite Year-End Blockbuster | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Winner |
Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards
3 nominations
| Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling | Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald | Nominee |
| Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Period and/or Character Make-Up | Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald | Nominee |
| Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Special Make-Up Effects | Fae Hammond | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature | Gabriel Beauvais-Tremblay, Luc Girard, Laurent Laban and Romain Rico | Nominee |
| Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins and Olly Young | Nominee |
Casting Society of America
1 nomination
| Feature Big Budget – Drama | Fiona Weir and Jim Carnahan | Nominee |
Costume Designers Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Fantasy Film | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
Diversity in Media Awards
1 nomination
| Movie of the Year | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
Irish Film & Television Awards
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor | Colin Farrell | Nominee |
Teen Choice Awards
1 nomination
| Choice AnTEENcipated Movie | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Nominee |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Art Direction | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |