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Heavenly Creatures
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1241
- IMDb #1763
- Rotten Tomatoes #661
- Metacritic #606
- Letterboxd #1204
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #408
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1345
- Metacritic Critics #338
- Metacritic Audience #1658
- Criticker #571
- Kinopoisk #2778
- AlloCiné #1887
- Trakt #2495
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 90, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Based on a true story, two intensely imaginative teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand form an obsessive friendship. They create a elaborate fantasy world to escape their mundane lives. When their parents threaten to separate them, their make-believe world twists into a dark reality, leading them to commit a horrific and shocking murder.
Details
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writers
- Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- Released
- 12 September 1994
- Country
- New Zealand, United States, Germany
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $3.0M
- Awards
- 16 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 23 →16 wins from 23 nominations across 23 ceremonies
| Best British Actress 1996 | Best British Actress | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| British Actress of the Year 1996 | British Actress of the Year | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Director of the Year 1996 | Director of the Year | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Film of the Year 1996 | Film of the Year | Heavenly Creatures | Nominee |
| Best Actress 1995 | Best Actress | Melanie Lynskey | Winner |
| Best Cinematography 1995 | Best Cinematography | Alun Bollinger | Nominee |
| Best Contribution to Design 1995 | Best Contribution to Design | Richard Taylor George Port | Winner |
| Best Design 1995 | Best Design | Grant Major | Winner |
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23 awards — Heavenly Creatures
×| Best Actress | Melanie Lynskey | Winner |
| Best British Actress | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Best Contribution to Design | Richard Taylor George Port | Winner |
| Best Design | Grant Major | Winner |
| Best Director | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Best Editing | Jamie Selkirk | Winner |
| Best Film Score | Peter Dasent | Winner |
| Best Foreign Performer | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Best Soundtrack | Mike Hopkins Greg Bell Michael Hedges | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sarah Peirse | Winner |
| British Actress of the Year | Kate Winslet | Winner |
| Director of the Year | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Grand Prize | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Metro Media Award | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Silver Lion | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Top 10 Films | Heavenly Creatures | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Alun Bollinger | Nominee |
| Best Feature | Peter Jackson | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Heavenly Creatures | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | Peter Jackson Fran Walsh | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Heavenly Creatures | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Peter Jackson Fran Walsh | Nominee |
| Film of the Year | Heavenly Creatures | Nominee |