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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011
· Movie
· 163 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #947
- IMDb #622
- Rotten Tomatoes #1331
- Metacritic #454
- Letterboxd #328
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #793
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2268
- Metacritic Critics #587
- Metacritic Audience #535
- Kinopoisk #3092
- AlloCiné #2468
- Trakt #1160
Every rating
68–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Over the course of a long, rainy night, a group of men—including a police commissioner, a doctor, and a prosecutor—drive through the Anatolian countryside. They are escorting two suspects who claim they cannot remember where they buried a body. The film follows their methodical, weary search for the burial site, during which conversations reveal the characters' inner lives.
Details
- Director
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Writers
- Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Studio
- 1000 Volt, Zeyno Film, 2006 Produkcija
- Released
- 23 September 2011
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey
- Language
- Turkish
- Runtime
- 163 min
- Box office
- $138.7K
- Awards
- 10 wins, 11 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 21 →1 major award won · 10 wins from 21 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2011 | Grand Prix (tied with The Kid with a Bike ) | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2013 | Best Foreign Film | Nominee | |
| Cannes Film Festival 2011 | Palme d'Or | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2013 | Foreign Language Film of the Year | Nominee | |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2013 | Director of the Year | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
| Chicago Film Critics Association 2012 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee | |
| European Film Awards 2012 | Best Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
| European Film Awards 2012 | Best Cinematographer | Gökhan Tiryaki | Nominee |
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Cannes Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Grand Prix (tied with The Kid with a Bike ) | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
Independent Spirit Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Nominee |
Asia Pacific Screen Award
5 nominations, 3 won
| Achievement in Cinematography | Gökhan Tiryaki | Winner |
| Achievement in Directing | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
| Jury Grand Prize | Winner | |
| Best Feature | Zeynep Özbatur Atakan Mirsad Purivatra Eda Arikan İbrahim Şahin Müge Kolat Murat Akdilek Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Ercan Kesal Ebru Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
Dubai International Film Festival
2 nominations, 2 won
| Muhr AsiaAfrica Feature: Best Cinematographer | Gökhan Tiryaki | Winner |
| Muhr AsiaAfrica Feature: Special Jury Prize | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
Cinemanila International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Main Competition – Best Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| NETPAC Award | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
Philadelphia Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Audience Award Honorable Mention Masters | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winner |
European Film Awards
2 nominations
| Best Cinematographer | Gökhan Tiryaki | Nominee |
| Best Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
London Film Critics' Circle
2 nominations
| Director of the Year | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |
| Foreign Language Film of the Year | Nominee |
Chicago Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
New York Film Critics Circle
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
Oslo Films from the South Festival
1 nomination
| Best Feature | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Nominee |