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Le Dîner de Cons
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #802
- IMDb #929
- Rotten Tomatoes #1491
- Letterboxd #925
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2565
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #551
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- Metacritic Critics #1214
- Douban #773
- Kinopoisk #1494
- AlloCiné #73
- Trakt #269
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 73, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Details
- Director
- Francis Veber
- Writer
- Francis Veber
- Studio
- Gaumont, EFVE, TPS Cinéma, TF1 Films Production
- Released
- 15 April 1998
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Budget
- $12.5M
- Box office
- $78.6M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →3 major awards won · 5 wins from 9 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| César Awards 1998 | Best Actor | Jacques Villeret | Winner |
| César Awards 1998 | Best Supporting Actor | Daniel Prévost | Winner |
| César Awards 1998 | Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation | Francis Veber | Winner |
| César Awards 1998 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| César Awards 1998 | Best Director | Francis Veber | Nominee |
| César Awards 1998 | Best Supporting Actress | Catherine Frot | Nominee |
| Goya Awards 1998 | Best European Film | Nominee | |
| Lumière Awards 1998 | Best Actor | Jacques Villeret | Winner |
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9 awards — Le Dîner de Cons
×| Best Actor | Jacques Villeret | Winner |
| Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation | Francis Veber | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Daniel Prévost | Winner |
| Best Director | Francis Veber | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Catherine Frot | Nominee |
| Best European Film | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Jacques Villeret | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Francis Veber | Winner |