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Miracle on 34th Street
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #491
- IMDb #479
- Google retired #230
- Rotten Tomatoes #399
- Metacritic #329
- Letterboxd #1062
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #340
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #919
- Metacritic Critics #266
- Metacritic Audience #814
- Criticker #661
- Kinopoisk #566
- AlloCiné #1966
- Trakt #519
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 92, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A kind, old man named Kris Kringle is hired to be the Santa Claus for Macy's department store. He claims to be the real Santa, a assertion that leads to a court case to determine his sanity. A young lawyer and a cynical little girl, who has been taught by her mother not to believe in fantasies, find their lives intertwined with his. The event forces the city of New York to consider the value of faith and imagination.
Details
- Director
- George Seaton
- Writers
- George Seaton, Valentine Davies
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 4 June 1947
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Dutch
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $630.0K
- Box office
- $2.7M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
Full cast (66) →Awards & nominations
See all 4 →3 major awards won · 3 wins from 4 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 20th Academy Awards 1948 | Best Story | Valentine Davies | Winner |
| 20th Academy Awards 1948 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | George Seaton | Winner |
| 20th Academy Awards 1948 | Best Supporting Actor | Edmund Gwenn | Winner |
| 20th Academy Awards 1948 | Best Picture | Nominee |
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Trailer — Miracle on 34th Street
×Full cast — Miracle on 34th Street
×4 awards — Miracle on 34th Street
×| Best Story | Valentine Davies | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Edmund Gwenn | Winner |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | George Seaton | Winner |
| Best Picture | Nominee |