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Lolita
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1338
- IMDb #1070
- Google retired #2979
- Rotten Tomatoes #934
- Metacritic #836
- Letterboxd #2497
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1174
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1246
- Metacritic Critics #771
- Metacritic Audience #1262
- Criticker #704
- Douban #819
- Kinopoisk #2468
- AlloCiné #905
- Trakt #2154
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A middle-aged literature professor becomes obsessively infatuated with a precocious teenage girl. He marries her widowed mother solely to be near her, and after the mother's sudden death, he embarks on a cross-country trip with the young girl. The story chronicles their fraught and manipulative relationship as they travel from motel to motel.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Based on
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Released
- 13 June 1962
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $9.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 11 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Awards 1962 | Most Promising Newcomer – Female | Sue Lyon | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1962 | Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Vladimir Nabokov | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1962 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1962 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Shelley Winters | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1962 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Peter Sellers | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1962 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | James Mason | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1962 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards (2014) 2014 | Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection | Lolita (As part of Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection ) | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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11 awards — Lolita
×| Most Promising Newcomer – Female | Sue Lyon | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | James Mason | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Shelley Winters | Nominee |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Peter Sellers | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Vladimir Nabokov | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best DVD Collection | Lolita (As part of Stanley Kubrick: The Essential Collection ) | Winner |
| Best British Actor | James Mason | Nominee |
| Best DVD or Blu-ray Collection | Lolita (As part of Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection ) | Nominee |
| Golden Lion | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |