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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
· Movie
· 111 min
A
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #580
- IMDb #116
- Google retired #1411
- Rotten Tomatoes #1288
- Metacritic #899
- Letterboxd #195
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1534
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1506
- Metacritic Critics #1517
- Metacritic Audience #221
- Criticker #420
- Douban #335
- Kinopoisk #744
- AlloCiné #170
- Trakt #151
Every rating
65–88
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Google on 88.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a four-year coma. She discovers her entire wedding party was massacred and her unborn child killed. She embarks on a furious and violent quest for revenge against the former allies and her ex-boss who betrayed her, systematically working her way through a deadly hit list.
Details
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
- Writer
- Quentin Tarantino
- Studio
- Miramax, A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu
- Released
- 10 October 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Japanese, French
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $180.9M
- Awards
- 7 wins, 18 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 25 →7 wins from 25 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| 46th Grammy Awards 2003 | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Quentin Tarantino | Nominee |
| 61st Golden Globe Awards 2003 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Uma Thurman | Nominee |
| 2004 MTV Movie Awards 2004 | Best Fight | Uma Thurman vs. Chiaki Kuriyama | Winner |
| 2004 MTV Movie Awards 2004 | Best Villain | Lucy Liu | Winner |
| 2004 MTV Movie Awards 2004 | Best Female Performance | Uma Thurman | Winner |
| 2003 Satellite Awards 2003 | Best Sound | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |
| 2003 Satellite Awards 2003 | Best Visual Effects | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |
| 2003 Satellite Awards 2003 | Best Original Screenplay | Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman | Nominee |
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46th Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Quentin Tarantino | Nominee |
61st Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | Uma Thurman | Nominee |
2004 MTV Movie Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Female Performance | Uma Thurman | Winner |
| Best Fight | Uma Thurman vs. Chiaki Kuriyama | Winner |
| Best Villain | Lucy Liu | Winner |
30th Saturn Awards
7 nominations, 2 won
| Best Action/Adventure Film | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Winner |
| Best Actress | Uma Thurman | Winner |
| Best Director | Quentin Tarantino | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Quentin Tarantino | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Sonny Chiba | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Lucy Liu | Nominee |
| Genre Face of the Future | Chiaki Kuriyama | Nominee |
9th Empire Awards
4 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Uma Thurman | Winner |
| Best Director | Quentin Tarantino | Winner |
| Best Film | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |
| Sony Ericsson Scene of the Year | The House of the Blue Leaves | Nominee |
57th British Academy Film Awards
5 nominations
| Best Actress | Uma Thurman | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Sally Menke | Nominee |
| Best Film Music | RZA | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga, Wylie Stateman, and Mark Ulano | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Tommy Tom, Kia Kwan, Tam Wai, Kit Leung, Jaco Wong, and Hin Leung | Nominee |
2003 Satellite Awards
4 nominations
| Best Art Direction/Production Design | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Nominee |