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Full Metal Jacket
1987
· Movie
· 116 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #192
- IMDb #130
- Google retired #1081
- Rotten Tomatoes #375
- Metacritic #435
- Letterboxd #236
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1145
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #140
- Metacritic Critics #828
- Metacritic Audience #163
- Criticker #140
- Douban #253
- Kinopoisk #276
- AlloCiné #46
- Trakt #164
Every rating
72–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94.
See the most agreed on films →The story follows a group of new US Marine recruits as they endure the brutal and dehumanizing training process under a punishing Gunnery Sergeant. The film then follows one recruit, Joker, to the war in Vietnam, where he works as a military journalist but is thrust into the chaos and moral confusion of the Tet Offensive.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writers
- Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick
- Based on
- The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
- Released
- 26 June 1987
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, Vietnamese
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $46.4M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →5 wins from 11 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1988 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford | Nominee |
| Golden Globes 1988 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | R. Lee Ermey | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America 1988 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford | Nominee |
| BAFTA Awards 1987 | Best Special Effects | John Evans | Nominee |
| BAFTA Awards 1987 | Best Sound | Nigel Galt, Edward Tise and Andy Nelson | Nominee |
| Awards of the Japanese Academy 1989 | Best Foreign Language Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Kinema Junpo Awards 1989 | Best Foreign Language Film Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1988 | Best Supporting Actor | R. Lee Ermey | Winner |
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BAFTA Awards
2 nominations
| Best Sound | Nigel Galt, Edward Tise and Andy Nelson | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | John Evans | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford | Nominee |
Golden Globes
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | R. Lee Ermey | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America
1 nomination
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford | Nominee |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | R. Lee Ermey | Winner |
David di Donatello Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Producer – Foreign film | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
Kinema Junpo Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film Director | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
London Critics Circle Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Director of the Year | Stanley Kubrick | Winner |
Awards of the Japanese Academy
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |