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Laura
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #308
- IMDb #483
- Rotten Tomatoes #100
- Letterboxd #497
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #9
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #555
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 100, everyone else 80.
See the most agreed on films →A police detective falls in love with the portrait of a beautiful, murdered woman named Laura while investigating her death. As he becomes obsessed with her life and the people in it, the case takes a shocking turn when Laura herself appears, very much alive. The detective must now find out who was murdered and why.
Details
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Based on
- Laura by Vera Caspary
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 11 October 1944
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $2.0M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 7 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 7 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Joseph LaShelle | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Director | Otto Preminger | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Supporting Actor | Clifton Webb | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Screenplay | Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1944 | Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller ; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1944 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| Online Film & Television Association Awards 1944 | Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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7 awards — Laura
×| Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Joseph LaShelle | Winner |
| Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller ; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little | Nominee |
| Best Director | Otto Preminger | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Clifton Webb | Nominee |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |