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Outbreak
1995
· Movie
· 129 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3285
- IMDb #3120
- Google retired #2428
- Rotten Tomatoes #3268
- Metacritic #2279
- Letterboxd #3284
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3387
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3616
- Metacritic Critics #2079
- Metacritic Audience #2733
- Criticker #2516
- Douban #948
- Kinopoisk #2406
- AlloCiné #3627
- Trakt #2356
Every rating
40–82
out of 100
A deadly and highly contagious virus from the African jungle is accidentally brought to the United States. A team of doctors from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute must race against time to contain the outbreak in a small California town. They face opposition from military officials who consider drastic measures, including bombing the town, to prevent a nationwide pandemic.
Details
- Director
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Writers
- Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool
- Based on
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
- Studio
- Kopelson Entertainment, Arnold Kopelson Productions, Punch Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 10 March 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $189.9M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 major award won · 4 wins from 6 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 1996 | Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
| ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1996 | Top Box Office Films | James Newton Howard | Winner |
| NAACP Image Awards 1996 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Nominee |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1996 | Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
| Saturn Awards 1996 | Best Science Fiction Film | Outbreak | Nominee |
| Society of Texas Film Critics Awards 1995 | Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Top Box Office Films | James Newton Howard | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | Winner |
NAACP Image Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Science Fiction Film | Outbreak | Nominee |