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Never Look Away
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #569
- IMDb #780
- Google retired #499
- Metacritic #1247
- Letterboxd #721
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2263
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- Metacritic Critics #1652
- Metacritic Audience #687
- Kinopoisk #171
- AlloCiné #293
- Trakt #541
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 68, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter, the film follows a young German artist from his childhood in Nazi Germany through his early adult years in East Germany. His art and life are profoundly shaped by the trauma of war and the stifling oppression of the Communist regime, before he eventually flees to West Germany to find artistic freedom and confront his past.
Details
- Director
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Released
- 3 October 2018
- Country
- Germany, Italy
- Language
- German, Russian
- Runtime
- 189 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $4.8M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →2 major awards won · 3 wins from 8 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Venice Film Festival 2018 | Arca CinemaGiovani Award | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
| Venice Film Festival 2018 | Leoncino d'Oro | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
| Academy Awards 2019 | Best Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 2019 | Best Foreign Language Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Venice Film Festival 2018 | Golden Lion | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Deutscher Filmpreis 2019 | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Oliver Masucci | Nominee |
| Young Cinema Award 2019 | Best International Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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8 awards — Never Look Away
×| Arca CinemaGiovani Award | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
| Leoncino d'Oro | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
| Golden Lion | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Nominee |
| Best International Film | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Winner |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Oliver Masucci | Nominee |