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Monsters University
2013
· Movie
· 104 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #270
- IMDb #224
- Google retired #247
- Rotten Tomatoes #207
- Metacritic #190
- Letterboxd #280
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #243
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #187
- Metacritic Critics #198
- Metacritic Audience #150
- Criticker #178
- Douban #81
- Kinopoisk #196
- AlloCiné #161
- Trakt #226
Every rating
47–90
out of 100
Two future professional scarers, Mike and Sulley, meet during their freshman year at university. They start off as arrogant rivals in the university's Scare Program, but after a clash gets them thrown out, they must work together. They join a group of misfits to compete in the Scare Games to prove they have what it takes.
Details
- Director
- Dan Scanlon
- Writers
- Daniel Gerson, Dan Scanlon, Robert L. Baird
- Studio
- Pixar
- Released
- 19 June 2013
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $200.0M
- Box office
- $743.6M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 23 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 26 →3 wins from 26 nominations across 15 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Movie Award 2014 | Best Animated Feature | Nominee | |
| Producers Guild of America Award 2014 | Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Kori Rae | Nominee |
| American Cinema Editors 2014 | Best Edited Animated Feature Film | Greg Snyder | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2014 | Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production | John Chun Chiu Lee | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2014 | Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Chris Sasaki | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2014 | Music in an Animated Feature Production | Randy Newman | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2014 | Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Ricky Nierva, Robert Kondo, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2014 | Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Billy Crystal (Mike Wazowski) | Nominee |
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Critics' Choice Movie Award
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Nominee |
Producers Guild of America Award
1 nomination
| Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Kori Rae | Nominee |
Annie Awards
10 nominations, 2 won
| Editorial in an Animated Feature Production | Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom | Winner |
| Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Dean Kelly | Winner |
| Animated Effects in an Animated Production | Nominee | |
| Best Animated Feature | Nominee | |
| Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production | John Chun Chiu Lee | Nominee |
| Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Chris Sasaki | Nominee |
| Music in an Animated Feature Production | Randy Newman | Nominee |
| Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Ricky Nierva, Robert Kondo, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi | Nominee |
| Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Billy Crystal (Mike Wazowski) | Nominee |
| Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird, Dan Scanlon | Nominee |
Hollywood Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Hollywood Animation Award | Winner |
Kids' Choice Awards
2 nominations
| Favorite Animated Movie | Nominee | |
| Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie | Billy Crystal | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Jon Reisch, Scott Clark | Nominee |
| Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Robert Kondo, Eric Andraos, Dale Ruffolo, Peter Sumanaseni (Campus) | Nominee |
American Cinema Editors
1 nomination
| Best Edited Animated Feature Film | Greg Snyder | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Dan Scanlon | Nominee |
Cinema Audio Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures – Animated | Doc Kane, Michael Semanick, Gary Summers, David Boucher, Corey Tyler | Nominee |
Denver Film Critics Society
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature Film | Nominee |
International Cinephile Society
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Nominee |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination
| Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media | Nominee |
Saturn Award
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Nominee |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Nominee |