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North by Northwest
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #87
- IMDb #144
- Google retired #1151
- Rotten Tomatoes #60
- Metacritic #30
- Letterboxd #225
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #188
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #157
- Metacritic Critics #25
- Metacritic Audience #178
- Criticker #115
- Douban #420
- Kinopoisk #571
- AlloCiné #113
- Trakt #243
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 73, highest is Metacritic critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. He is abruptly thrust into a world of intrigue and danger, pursued across the country by both the spies and the police who suspect him of murder. He must find the real agent to clear his name and survive.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer
- Ernest Lehman
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 6 August 1959
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $13.3M
- Awards
- 1 win, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 win from 8 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Art Direction, Color | Robert F. Boyle | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Art Direction, Color | William A. Horning | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Art Direction, Color | Henry Grace | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Art Direction, Color | Frank R. McKelvy | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Art Direction, Color | Merrill Pye | Nominee |
| 32nd Academy Awards 1960 | Best Film Editing | George Tomasini | Nominee |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1959 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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8 awards — North by Northwest
×| Best Art Direction, Color | Robert F. Boyle | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction, Color | William A. Horning | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction, Color | Henry Grace | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction, Color | Frank R. McKelvy | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction, Color | Merrill Pye | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | George Tomasini | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |