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Kill Your Darlings
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66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2982
- IMDb #3754
- Google retired #858
- Rotten Tomatoes #2543
- Metacritic #2268
- Letterboxd #2440
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2180
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3385
- Metacritic Critics #1932
- Metacritic Audience #2884
- Kinopoisk #2634
- AlloCiné #2759
- Trakt #2765
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Lowest is Criticker on 29, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young student arrives at Columbia University in 1944 and is drawn into a group of aspiring writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Their rebellious world is shattered when a member of their circle is arrested for murder. The event forces them to confront a dark secret and serves as a catalyst for their future literary revolutions.
Details
- Director
- John Krokidas
- Writers
- Austin Bunn, John Krokidas
- Released
- 16 October 2013
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.6M
- Box office
- $1.6M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 major award won · 5 wins from 11 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Venice Film Festival 2013 | The Venice Days International Award | Winner | |
| Sundance Film Festival 2013 | Grand Jury Prize | Nominee | |
| Chlotrudis Awards 2014 | Best Actor | Daniel Radcliffe | Nominee |
| Dorian Awards 2014 | LGBT Film of the Year | Nominee | |
| Dorian Awards 2014 | Unsung Film of the Year | Winner | |
| GLAAD Media Awards 2014 | Outstanding Film – Wide Release | Nominee | |
| BFI London Film Festival 2013 | Sutherland Trophy | John Krokidas | Nominee |
| Gotham Awards 2013 | Breakthrough Actor | Dane DeHaan | Nominee |
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11 awards — Kill Your Darlings
×| The Venice Days International Award | Winner |
| Grand Jury Prize | Nominee |
| Breakthrough Performer | Jack Huston | Winner |
| Breakthrough Performer | Dane DeHaan | Winner |
| Unsung Film of the Year | Winner | |
| LGBT Film of the Year | Nominee |
| Directors to Watch | John Krokidas | Winner |
| Sutherland Trophy | John Krokidas | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Daniel Radcliffe | Nominee |
| Outstanding Film – Wide Release | Nominee |
| Breakthrough Actor | Dane DeHaan | Nominee |