Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 13 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
· Movie
· 229 min
A
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #123
- IMDb #90
- Google retired #1728
- Rotten Tomatoes #588
- Metacritic #637
- Letterboxd #200
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1489
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #232
- Metacritic Critics #1052
- Metacritic Audience #256
- Douban #54
- Kinopoisk #74
- AlloCiné #30
- Trakt #184
Every rating
75–93
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Details
- Director
- Sergio Leone
- Released
- 23 May 1984
- Country
- Italy, United States
- Language
- English, Italian, French, Yiddish, Hebrew
- Runtime
- 229 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $5.5M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 7 nominations
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (82) →
Awards & nominations
See all 11 →4 wins from 11 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| 42nd Golden Globe Awards 1984 | Best Director | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
| 42nd Golden Globe Awards 1984 | Best Original Score | Ennio Morricone | Nominee |
| 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1984 | Best Music Score | Ennio Morricone | Winner |
| 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1984 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| 10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1984 | Best Director | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
| 38th British Academy Film Awards 1984 | Best Direction | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
| 38th British Academy Film Awards 1984 | Best Film Music | Ennio Morricone | Winner |
| 38th British Academy Film Awards 1984 | Best Costume Design | Gabriella Pescucci | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More like this
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
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.
29 October 2026
MCU canon explained: the main timeline, other universes and the TV shows
Daredevil counts. Alternate universes are not automatically non-canon. A practical guide to Marvel continuity without treating every cameo as a blanket answer.
29 October 2026
Why Batman works without superpowers—and when the films forget why
Fear, money, detective work and moral limits: four Batman films test what makes Bruce Wayne worth watching.
29 October 2026
Five great directorial debuts, ranked for what is already on screen
Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, Get Out, Reservoir Dogs and Following: first features judged without borrowing greatness from the careers that followed.
29 October 2026
TV shows with Black female leads: four series worth arguing about
Insecure, Queen Sugar, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, ranked for character writing, dramatic range and the lives they make room for.
29 October 2026
TV shows with the best song choices: five different ways to get it right
The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The O.C., Peaky Blinders and Euphoria: what their songs do beyond making a scene sound good.
Just released
See all →
Coming soon
Trailer — Once Upon a Time in America
×Full cast — Once Upon a Time in America
×
11 awards — Once Upon a Time in America
×
42nd Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations
| Best Director | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Ennio Morricone | Nominee |
38th British Academy Film Awards
5 nominations, 2 won
| Best Costume Design | Gabriella Pescucci | Winner |
| Best Film Music | Ennio Morricone | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Tuesday Weld | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
10th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Music Score | Ennio Morricone | Winner |
| Best Director | Sergio Leone | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
8th Japan Academy Film Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Winner |