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Kon-Tiki
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1901
- IMDb #2031
- Rotten Tomatoes #1642
- Metacritic #2129
- Letterboxd #2262
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1769
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1967
- Metacritic Critics #2268
- Metacritic Audience #1982
- Criticker #210
- Kinopoisk #1560
- AlloCiné #1681
- Trakt #2496
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1947, ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl sets out to prove his theory that Polynesia was settled by ancient people from South America. Despite being unable to swim and fearing the water, he and a small crew build a primitive balsawood raft using only period-appropriate materials. They embark on a perilous 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, facing storms, sharks, and their own doubts on this daring anthropological expedition.
Details
- Directors
- Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning
- Writer
- Petter Skavlan
- Released
- 24 August 2012
- Country
- Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Language
- Norwegian
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $16.6M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →3 wins from 8 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| 70th Golden Globe Awards 2012 | Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2012 | Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| 17th Satellite Awards 2012 | Best Sound | Baard H. Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringes | Nominee |
| 17th Satellite Awards 2012 | Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| 40th Norwegian International Film Festival 2012 | Publikumsprisen (Audience Award) | Kon-Tiki | Winner |
| Amanda Awards 2012 | Best Film | Aage Aaberge and Jeremy Thomas | Nominee |
| Amanda Awards 2012 | People's Amanda | Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg | Winner |
| Amanda Awards 2012 | Best Actor | Pål Sverre Hagen | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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×Full cast — Kon-Tiki
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8 awards — Kon-Tiki
×| Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Pål Sverre Hagen | Winner |
| People's Amanda | Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg | Winner |
| Best Film | Aage Aaberge and Jeremy Thomas | Nominee |
| Publikumsprisen (Audience Award) | Kon-Tiki | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Kon-Tiki | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Baard H. Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringes | Nominee |