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Hunger
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #923
- IMDb #1104
- Google retired #2642
- Rotten Tomatoes #930
- Metacritic #586
- Letterboxd #568
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1025
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1328
- Metacritic Critics #577
- Metacritic Audience #913
- Criticker #106
- Kinopoisk #2693
- AlloCiné #1497
- Trakt #1889
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The film chronicles the final six weeks in the life of Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands, led by the IRA in Belfast's Maze Prison in 1981. It focuses on his physical and psychological deterioration as he starves himself to death in a protest for political prisoner status. The narrative also depicts the brutal conditions of the prison and the standoff between the inmates and the British government.
Details
- Director
- Steve McQueen
- Writers
- Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
- Studio
- Film4 Productions, Northern Ireland Screen, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, Wales Creative IP Fund
- Released
- 15 May 2008
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland
- Language
- English, Irish Gaelic
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $2.7M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| BAFTA Award 2009 | Best British Film | Nominee | |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009 | Evening Standard British Film Awards | Winner | |
| 21st European Film Awards 2008 | European Discovery of the Year | Steve McQueen | Winner |
| 21st European Film Awards 2008 | Best Director | Steve McQueen | Nominee |
| 21st European Film Awards 2008 | Best Actor | Michael Fassbender | Nominee |
| 21st European Film Awards 2008 | European Discovery of the Year | Enda Walsh | Winner |
| Caméra d'Or 2008 | Caméra d'Or | Winner |
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7 awards — Hunger
×| Best British Film | Nominee |
| European Discovery of the Year | Steve McQueen | Winner |
| European Discovery of the Year | Enda Walsh | Winner |
| Best Actor | Michael Fassbender | Nominee |
| Best Director | Steve McQueen | Nominee |
| Caméra d'Or | Winner |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards | Winner |