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Mississippi Burning
1988
· Movie
· 128 min
B
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #813
- IMDb #582
- Google retired #467
- Rotten Tomatoes #1154
- Metacritic #1469
- Letterboxd #757
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2145
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #536
- Metacritic Critics #1992
- Metacritic Audience #790
- Criticker #446
- Douban #878
- Kinopoisk #869
- AlloCiné #234
- Trakt #666
Every rating
65–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 65, highest is Google on 94.
See the most agreed on films →Two FBI agents with diametrically opposed methods investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in a small, racially polarized Mississippi town. They are met with a wall of silence and hostility from the local community, forcing them to navigate deep-seated prejudice and institutional corruption to find the truth.
Details
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Writer
- Chris Gerolmo
- Released
- 8 December 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $34.6M
- Awards
- 17 wins, 23 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 40 →2 major awards won · 17 wins from 40 nominations across 17 ceremonies
| 39th Berlin International Film Festival 1988 | Silver Bear for Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Winner |
| 61st Academy Awards 1988 | Best Cinematography | Peter Biziou | Winner |
| 39th Berlin International Film Festival 1988 | Silver Bear for Best Director | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| 41st Directors Guild of America Awards 1988 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| 46th Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Best Director | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| 46th Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| 46th Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Best Screenplay | Chris Gerolmo | Nominee |
| 46th Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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61st Academy Awards
7 nominations, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | Peter Biziou | Winner |
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
| Best Director | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Gerry Hambling | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline and Danny Michael | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Frances McDormand | Nominee |
39th Berlin International Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Silver Bear for Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Winner |
| Silver Bear for Best Director | Alan Parker | Nominee |
46th Golden Globe Awards
4 nominations
| Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
| Best Director | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| Best Screenplay | Chris Gerolmo | Nominee |
41st Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Alan Parker | Nominee |
60th National Board of Review Awards
5 nominations, 5 won
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Winner |
| Best Director | Alan Parker | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Frances McDormand | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | Winner |
43rd British Academy Film Awards
5 nominations, 3 won
| Best Cinematography | Peter Biziou | Winner |
| Best Editing | Gerry Hambling | Winner |
| Best Sound | Bill Phillips, Danny Michael, Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline | Winner |
| Best Direction | Alan Parker | Nominee |
| Best Film Music | Trevor Jones | Nominee |
2nd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
4 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Frances McDormand | Winner |
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Brad Dourif | Nominee |
1988 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress | Frances McDormand | Winner |
1989 Annual ACE Eddie Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic | Gerry Hambling | Winner |
1989 Artios Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Casting for a Drama Film | Howard Feuer, Juliet Taylor | Winner |
1989 British Society of Cinematographers Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | Peter Biziou | Winner |
1989 Political Film Society Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Human Rights Award | Winner |
54th New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
David di Donatello Awards
2 nominations
| Best Foreign Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Alan Parker | Nominee |
14th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |
1989 Annual ASC Awards
1 nomination
| ASC Award | Peter Biziou | Nominee |
23rd National Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor | Gene Hackman | Nominee |