Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 13 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
My Fair Lady
1964
· Movie
· 170 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #490
- IMDb #731
- Google retired #1142
- Rotten Tomatoes #333
- Metacritic #167
- Letterboxd #1722
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #536
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #521
- Metacritic Critics #70
- Metacritic Audience #939
- Criticker #815
- Douban #477
- Kinopoisk #281
- AlloCiné #934
- Trakt #883
Every rating
60–95
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Metacritic critics on 95. Critics average 94, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A misogynistic phonetics professor makes a boastful wager that he can transform a rough-mannered Cockney flower girl into a refined lady, capable of passing as a duchess in high society. Through rigorous training in speech and etiquette, he challenges her to overcome her background, a process that challenges both their preconceptions.
Details
- Director
- George Cukor
- Writer
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Based on
- My Fair Lady
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 1 December 1964
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 170 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Box office
- $72.7M
- Awards
- 24 wins, 13 nominations
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (37) →
Awards & nominations
See all 37 →12 major awards won · 24 wins from 37 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Picture | Jack L. Warner | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Director | George Cukor | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Actor | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Art Direction – Color | Art Direction: Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton ; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Cinematography – Color | Harry Stradling | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Costume Design – Color | Cecil Beaton | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment | André Previn | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1964 | Best Sound | George R. Groves | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More like this
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
30 October 2026
Why Meryl Streep is the greatest actress of all time
The case rests on comedy, emotional precision, versatility and sustained achievement, tested against the strongest rival claims.
30 October 2026
Denzel Washington is more than an actor: a global Black cultural icon
How global visibility, artistic freedom and a commanding public presence gave his career a meaning that reaches beyond the films.
9 October 2026
Highest-rated sitcoms on Metacritic: the stored critic scores
Twenty-five Metascores from the catalogue, with review counts and a clear distinction between a season, a whole series and an approval percentage.
9 October 2026
Highest-rated sitcoms on Rotten Tomatoes: the audience list
Twenty-five stored audience percentages, with counts, ties and comic reasons to look beyond the highest number.
9 October 2026
The highest-rated sitcoms on Rotten Tomatoes: twenty-five critic favourites
The saved Tomatometer scores, what their ties conceal, and the comedy each show actually offers.
9 October 2026
Sitcoms with higher recorded critic scores than audience scores
Fifteen comedies whose stored measures lean towards the critic side, from The Larry Sanders Show to Detectorists. Lower does not mean disliked.
Just released
See all →
Coming soon
Trailer — My Fair Lady
×Full cast — My Fair Lady
×
37 awards — My Fair Lady
×
Academy Awards
12 nominations, 8 won
| Best Actor | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Best Art Direction – Color | Art Direction: Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton ; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Winner |
| Best Cinematography – Color | Harry Stradling | Winner |
| Best Costume Design – Color | Cecil Beaton | Winner |
| Best Director | George Cukor | Winner |
| Best Picture | Jack L. Warner | Winner |
| Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment | André Previn | Winner |
| Best Sound | George R. Groves | Winner |
| Best Film Editing | William Ziegler | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Alan Jay Lerner | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Holloway | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Gladys Cooper | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
5 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | George Cukor | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner | |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Audrey Hepburn | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Stanley Holloway | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | George Cukor | Winner |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Written American Musical | Alan Jay Lerner | Nominee |
David di Donatello Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Foreign Actor | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Best Foreign Actress | Audrey Hepburn | Winner |
| Best Foreign Manufacturer | Jack L. Warner | Winner |
Laurel Awards
4 nominations, 2 won
| Top Male Musical Performance | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Top Road Show | Winner | |
| Top Female Musical Performance | Audrey Hepburn | Nominee |
| Top Male Supporting Performance | Stanley Holloway | Nominee |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
4 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actor | Rex Harrison | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Actress | Audrey Hepburn | Nominee |
| Best Director | George Cukor | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Film | George Cukor | Winner |
| Best British Actor | Rex Harrison | Nominee |
Boxoffice Magazine Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family (December) | George Cukor | Winner |
Cinema Writers Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |
Online Film & Television Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film Hall of Fame: Productions | Winner |
American Cinema Editors Awards
1 nomination
| Best Edited Feature Film | William Ziegler | Nominee |