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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4110
- IMDb #3322
- Google retired #2053
- Rotten Tomatoes #4037
- Metacritic #3569
- Letterboxd #4798
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4445
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3835
- Metacritic Critics #3174
- Metacritic Audience #3903
- Criticker #3652
- Douban #1620
- Kinopoisk #3423
- AlloCiné #1743
- Trakt #2257
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Lowest is Criticker on 27, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 44, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald escapes custody and begins to gather followers, promising to establish a new world order where wizards rule over non-magical people. Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt Scamander to track him down and thwart his plans. The mission leads them to Paris, where they must uncover Grindelwald's true intentions and confront a mysterious young man with a pivotal connection to both Dumbledore and the dark wizard.
Details
- Director
- David Yates
- Writer
- J.K. Rowling
- Based on
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — The Original Screenplay by Q34660
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films
- Released
- 14 November 2018
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $200.0M
- Box office
- $654.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 13 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Art Directors Guild Awards 2019 | Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Artios Awards 2019 | The Zeitgeist Award | Fiona Weir | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2019 | Best Special Visual Effects | Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, and David Watkins | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2019 | Best Production Design | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
| European Film Awards 2019 | People's Choice Award | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2019 | Best Art Direction and Production Design | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2019 | Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2019 | Best Visual Effects | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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14 awards — Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
×| Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Most Disappointing Film | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Winner |
| Best Art Direction and Production Design | Stuart Craig | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Colleen Atwood | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Villain | Johnny Depp | Nominee |
| Choice Movie – Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
| Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Actress | Katherine Waterston | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock | Nominee |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, and David Watkins | Nominee |
| The Zeitgeist Award | Fiona Weir | Nominee |
| People's Choice Award | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
| Best Fantasy Film | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Nominee |
| Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature | Dominik Kirouac, Chloe Ostiguy, Christian Gaumond | Nominee |