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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #528
- IMDb #186
- Google retired #22
- Rotten Tomatoes #1340
- Metacritic #1214
- Letterboxd #533
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2100
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #959
- Metacritic Critics #2126
- Metacritic Audience #154
- Criticker #934
- Douban #80
- Kinopoisk #50
- AlloCiné #169
- Trakt #101
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Lowest is Criticker on 58, highest is Google on 98.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The free-spirited blacksmith Will Turner teams up with the eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow to rescue the governor's daughter, Elizabeth Swann, who has been kidnapped by Jack's mutinous first mate and his crew. The kidnappers are not ordinary pirates; they are cursed to live as immortal skeletons under the moonlight, and they believe Elizabeth holds the key to breaking the curse. The pursuit leads them on a high-seas adventure to recover Jack's stolen ship, the Black Pearl.
Details
- Director
- Gore Verbinski
- Writers
- Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
- Based on
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Released
- 9 July 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $140.0M
- Box office
- $655.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 11 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →2 wins from 13 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Sound | David E. Campbell | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Sound | Lee Orloff | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Sound | David Parker | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Visual Effects | John Knoll | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Visual Effects | Hal Hickel | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Visual Effects | Charles Gibson | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Visual Effects | Terry Frazee | Nominee |
| 76th Academy Awards 2004 | Best Actor | Johnny Depp | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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13 awards — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
×| Best Actor | Johnny Depp | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Ve Neill | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Martin Samuel | Nominee |
| Best Sound | David E. Campbell | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Lee Orloff | Nominee |
| Best Sound | David Parker | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Christopher Boyes | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | John Knoll | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Hal Hickel | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Charles Gibson | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Terry Frazee | Nominee |
| Best Family Film | Winner |
| the best foreign film | Winner |