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Picnic at Hanging Rock
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1121
- IMDb #1571
- Rotten Tomatoes #749
- Metacritic #605
- Letterboxd #1056
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #691
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1264
- Metacritic Critics #657
- Metacritic Audience #827
- Criticker #402
- Kinopoisk #1313
- AlloCiné #1933
- Trakt #3097
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 87, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →On a summer day in 1900, a group of students and teachers from a strict Australian girls' boarding school go on a picnic to the remote Hanging Rock geological formation. During the outing, three girls and one teacher vanish without a trace. The subsequent investigation yields no answers, and the inexplicable disappearance has a profound and unsettling effect on the school and the surrounding community.
Details
- Director
- Peter Weir
- Writer
- Cliff Green
- Based on
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Studio
- McElroy & McElroy, Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., British Empire Films Australia, Australian Film Commission
- Released
- 2 September 1975
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $460.0K
- Box office
- $5.1M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →2 wins from 11 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| AACTA Awards 1975 | Best Film | Hal and Jim McElroy | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 1975 | Best Direction | Peter Weir | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 1975 | Best Actress | Helen Morse | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 1975 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Tony Llewellyn-Jones | Nominee |
| AACTA Awards 1975 | Best Screenplay | Cliff Green | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1975 | Best Cinematography | Russell Boyd | Winner |
| British Academy Film Awards 1975 | Best Costume Design | Judith Dorsman | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1975 | Best Soundtrack | Greg Bell and Dan Connelly | Nominee |
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11 awards — Picnic at Hanging Rock
×| Best Cinematography | Russell Boyd | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Judith Dorsman | Nominee |
| Best Soundtrack | Greg Bell and Dan Connelly | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Russell Boyd | Winner |
| Best Writing | Cliff Green | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Tony Llewellyn-Jones | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Helen Morse | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Peter Weir | Nominee |
| Best Film | Hal and Jim McElroy | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Cliff Green | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Russell Boyd | Nominee |