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Ghost
1990
· Movie
· 127 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1729
- IMDb #1896
- Google retired #692
- Rotten Tomatoes #1878
- Metacritic #2450
- Letterboxd #1744
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2494
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1622
- Metacritic Critics #3268
- Metacritic Audience #1061
- Criticker #2226
- Douban #409
- Kinopoisk #109
- AlloCiné #829
- Trakt #1236
Every rating
43–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 63, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man is murdered and becomes a ghost, trapped between worlds. He discovers his death was not a random act of violence but a targeted robbery. Unable to interact with the physical world, he must rely on a skeptical psychic to communicate with his grieving girlfriend and protect her from the dangerous men who killed him.
Details
- Director
- Jerry Zucker
- Writer
- Bruce Joel Rubin
- Released
- 13 July 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $22.0M
- Box office
- $505.0M
- Awards
- 18 wins, 23 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 41 →3 major awards won · 18 wins from 41 nominations across 23 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Bruce Joel Rubin | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Picture | Lisa Weinstein | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Film Editing | Walter Murch | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Original Score | Maurice Jarre | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1990 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Patrick Swayze | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1990 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Demi Moore | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
5 nominations, 2 won
| Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Bruce Joel Rubin | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Best Film Editing | Walter Murch | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Maurice Jarre | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Lisa Weinstein | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
4 nominations, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Patrick Swayze | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Demi Moore | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Bruce Joel Rubin | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
9 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actress | Demi Moore | Winner |
| Best Fantasy Film | Winner | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Best Actor | Patrick Swayze | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jerry Zucker | Nominee |
| Best Music | Maurice Jarre | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Bruce Nicholson, John T. Van Vliet, Richard Edlund, and Laura Buff | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Tony Goldwyn | Nominee |
| Best Writing | Bruce Joel Rubin | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
4 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
| Best Make Up Artist | Ben Nye Jr. | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | Bruce Joel Rubin | Nominee |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Bruce Nicholson, John T. Van Vliet, Richard Edlund, and Laura Buff | Nominee |
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Top Box Office Films | Maurice Jarre | Winner |
American Comedy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
Golden Screen Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Golden Screen Awards | Winner |
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
Mainichi Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film (Readers' Choice Award) | Jerry Zucker | Winner |
NAACP Image Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Whoopi Goldberg | Winner |
Nikkan Sports Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
People's Choice Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture | Winner |
Sant Jordi Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Jerry Zucker | Winner |
Young Artist Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Most Entertaining Family Youth Motion Picture – Comedy/Horror | Winner |
American Cinema Editors Awards
1 nomination
| Best Edited Feature Film | Walter Murch | Nominee |
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases | Adam Greenberg | Nominee |
Golden Reel Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film | Lee Haxall | Nominee |
Hugo Awards
1 nomination
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Jerry Zucker and Bruce Joel Rubin | Nominee |
Japan Academy Film Prize
1 nomination
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination
| Best Classic DVD | Nominee |
TV Land Awards
1 nomination
| Favorite Character from the "Other Side" | Whoopi Goldberg | Nominee |