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Lady Macbeth
2016
· Movie
· 89 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2482
- IMDb #2757
- Google retired #3245
- Rotten Tomatoes #1646
- Metacritic #1426
- Letterboxd #2476
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1113
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2523
- Metacritic Critics #947
- Metacritic Audience #2567
- Criticker #1414
- Kinopoisk #4462
- AlloCiné #3166
Every rating
53–89
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 82, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 19th-century rural England, a young woman is sold into a marriage with a bitter man twice her age. Trapped in a lonely and oppressive life on his estate, she enters into a passionate and ruthless affair with a worker on the estate. The affair leads her to commit a series of shocking acts to secure her freedom and desire.
Details
- Director
- William Oldroyd
- Writer
- Alice Birch
- Based on
- Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov
- Studio
- iFeatures, Sixty Six Pictures, BBC Film, BFI
- Released
- 12 December 2016
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $5.2M
- Awards
- 7 wins, 15 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 22 →7 wins from 22 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Independent Spirit Awards 2018 | Best International Film (awarded to the director) | William Oldroyd | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2018 | Outstanding British Film | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2018 | BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2017 | The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) | William Oldroyd | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2017 | Best Actress | Florence Pugh | Winner |
| British Independent Film Awards 2017 | Best Supporting Actress | Naomi Ackie | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2017 | Most Promising Newcomer | Naomi Ackie | Winner |
| British Independent Film Awards 2017 | Most Promising Newcomer | Cosmo Jarvis | Nominee |
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Independent Spirit Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Film (awarded to the director) | William Oldroyd | Nominee |
British Independent Film Awards
15 nominations, 5 won
| Best Actress | Florence Pugh | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Ari Wegner | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Holly Waddington | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Alice Birch | Winner |
| Most Promising Newcomer | Naomi Ackie | Winner |
| Best British Independent Film | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |
| Best Casting | Shaheen Baig | Nominee |
| Best Debut Screenwriter | Alice Birch | Nominee |
| Best Director | William Oldroyd | Nominee |
| Best Make-up and Hair Design | Sian Wilson | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Jacqueline Abrahams | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Naomi Ackie | Nominee |
| Breakthrough Producer | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly | Nominee |
| Most Promising Newcomer | Cosmo Jarvis | Nominee |
| The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) | William Oldroyd | Nominee |
European Film Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| European Discovery / Prix FIPRESCI | Lady Macbeth | Winner |
| European Actress | Florence Pugh | Nominee |
| Feature Film Selection | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |
Les Arcs European Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Cineuropa Award | Lady Macbeth | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
2 nominations
| BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |
| Outstanding British Film | Lady Macbeth | Nominee |