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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1487
- IMDb #1326
- Google retired #471
- Rotten Tomatoes #1902
- Metacritic #2726
- Letterboxd #1427
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2712
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1364
- Metacritic Critics #2588
- Metacritic Audience #2958
- Kinopoisk #900
- AlloCiné #1378
- Trakt #2223
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 59, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 65, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A diverse group of strangers witnesses a crashed car and the dying driver's confession about a fortune buried hundreds of miles away. This sparks a frantic, state-wide race across California as every one of them attempts to be the first to find the hidden money. Their greed leads to increasingly wild and destructive antics, alliances, and betrayals as they compete for the loot.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kramer
- Writers
- Tania Rose, William Rose
- Studio
- United Artists, Casey Productions
- Released
- 7 November 1963
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Chinese
- Runtime
- 210 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $9.4M
- Box office
- $60.0M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 13 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Sound Effects | Walter Elliott | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Cinematography – Color | Ernest Laszlo | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Film Editing | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, and Gene Fowler Jr. | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Music Score – Substantially Original | Ernest Gold | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Song | "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Sound | Gordon E. Sawyer | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1963 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jonathan Winters | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1963 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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13 awards — It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
×| Best Sound Effects | Walter Elliott | Winner |
| Best Cinematography – Color | Ernest Laszlo | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, and Gene Fowler Jr. | Nominee |
| Best Music Score – Substantially Original | Ernest Gold | Nominee |
| Best Song | "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Gordon E. Sawyer | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jonathan Winters | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee |
| Top Roadshow | Winner | |
| Top Song | "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David | Winner |
| Best Edited Feature Film | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, and Gene Fowler Jr. | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture Screenplay | William Rose and Tania Rose | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |