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Godzilla
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #537
- IMDb #930
- Rotten Tomatoes #402
- Metacritic #453
- Letterboxd #457
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #539
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #691
- Metacritic Critics #760
- Metacritic Audience #271
- Kinopoisk #3086
- AlloCiné #775
- Trakt #1105
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
Details
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Writers
- Eiji Tsuburaya, Ishirō Honda, Takeo Murata, Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Studio
- TOHO, Toho Laboratory
- Released
- 3 November 1954
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $60.0K
- Box office
- $2.2M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 7 →4 wins from 7 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| International Film Music Critics Association 2017 | Best Re-Release or Re-Recording of an Existing Score | Akira Ifukube, Kaoru Wada, and Masaru Hayakawa | Nominee |
| Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2013 | Best Commentary | David Kalat | Winner |
| Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2013 | Best Classic DVD | Godzilla (Criterion Blu-Ray) | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 2008 | Best DVD Collection | "The Godzilla Collection" | Nominee |
| Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2007 | Best Classic DVD | Godzilla | Winner |
| Saturn Awards 2007 | Best Classic Film DVD Release | Godzilla | Winner |
| Japan Film Technological Awards [ ja ] 1954 | Special Skill | Eiji Tsuburaya | Winner |
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7 awards — Godzilla
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| Best Commentary | David Kalat | Winner |
| Best Classic DVD | Godzilla (Criterion Blu-Ray) | Nominee |
| Best Classic Film DVD Release | Godzilla | Winner |
| Best DVD Collection | "The Godzilla Collection" | Nominee |
| Special Skill | Eiji Tsuburaya | Winner |
| Best Re-Release or Re-Recording of an Existing Score | Akira Ifukube, Kaoru Wada, and Masaru Hayakawa | Nominee |