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Metropolitan
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77/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94.
See the most agreed on films →A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
Details
- Director
- Whit Stillman
- Writer
- Whit Stillman
- Studio
- Westerly Films, Allagash Films
- Released
- 3 August 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $225.0K
- Box office
- $2.9M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 12 →1 major award won · 5 wins from 12 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Independent Spirit Awards 1990 | Best First Feature | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 1990 | Best Screenplay | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 1990 | Best Female Lead | Carolyn Farina | Nominee |
| Sundance Film Festival 1990 | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1990 | Best Screenplay | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1990 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| Deauville American Film Festival 1990 | Critics Award | Whit Stillman | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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12 awards — Metropolitan
×| Best First Feature | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Best Female Lead | Carolyn Farina | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Coup de Coeur LTC | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Critics Award | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Silver Leopard | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Golden Leopard | Whit Stillman | Nominee |
| Best New Director | Whit Stillman | Winner |
| Best Film | Nominee | |
| Best Screenplay | Whit Stillman | Nominee |