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My Cousin Vinny
1992
· Movie
· 120 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1012
- IMDb #868
- Google retired #175
- Rotten Tomatoes #979
- Metacritic #1361
- Letterboxd #749
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1589
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #876
- Metacritic Critics #1669
- Metacritic Audience #945
- Criticker #1034
- Douban #777
- Kinopoisk #1013
- AlloCiné #1952
- Trakt #469
Every rating
57–96
out of 100
Two college students from New York are mistakenly arrested in rural Alabama for a murder they did not commit. One of them calls his cousin Vinny, a loudmouth, inexperienced lawyer from Brooklyn who has just passed the bar after six attempts, to come down and defend them in a courtroom culture far from his own.
Details
- Director
- Jonathan Lynn
- Writer
- Dale Launer
- Studio
- Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production
- Released
- 13 March 1992
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $11.0M
- Box office
- $64.1M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 4 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 major award won · 4 wins from 8 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1992 | Best Supporting Actress | Marisa Tomei | Winner |
| American Comedy Awards 1992 | Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Joe Pesci | Winner |
| American Comedy Awards 1992 | Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Marisa Tomei | Nominee |
| American Comedy Awards 1992 | Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Fred Gwynne | Nominee |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1992 | Best Supporting Actress | Marisa Tomei | Nominee |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1992 | Most Promising Actress | Marisa Tomei (also for Chaplin ) | Winner |
| MTV Movie Awards 1992 | Best Breakthrough Performance | Marisa Tomei | Winner |
| MTV Movie Awards 1992 | Best Comedic Performance | Joe Pesci | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress | Marisa Tomei | Winner |
American Comedy Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Joe Pesci | Winner |
| Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Marisa Tomei | Nominee |
| Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Fred Gwynne | Nominee |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Most Promising Actress | Marisa Tomei (also for Chaplin ) | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Marisa Tomei | Nominee |
MTV Movie Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Breakthrough Performance | Marisa Tomei | Winner |
| Best Comedic Performance | Joe Pesci | Nominee |