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Planet of the Apes
1968
· Movie
· 112 min
B
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #647
- IMDb #326
- Rotten Tomatoes #876
- Metacritic #450
- Letterboxd #580
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1468
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #737
- Metacritic Critics #770
- Metacritic Audience #263
- Criticker #482
- Douban #438
- Kinopoisk #860
- AlloCiné #355
- Trakt #828
Every rating
64–88
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 88.
See the most agreed on films →Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Details
- Director
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Writers
- Michael Wilson, Rod Serling
- Studio
- APJAC Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 7 February 1968
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $5.8M
- Box office
- $32.6M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 22 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 28 →1 major award won · 6 wins from 28 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Awards 1968 | Best Visual Effects | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1968 | Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist | Nominee |
| Art Directors Guild 1968 | Best Fantasy Film | James Chinlund | Nominee |
| BAFTA Awards 1968 | Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Awards 1968 | Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
| 4th AACTA International Awards 1968 | Best International Supporting Actor | Andy Serkis | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 1968 | Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production | Daniel Barrett, Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Alessandro Bonora, Dejan Momcilovic | Winner |
| Empire Awards 1968 | Best Director | Matt Reeves | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Critics' Choice Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Visual Effects | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Winner |
| Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist | Nominee |
Art Directors Guild
1 nomination
| Best Fantasy Film | James Chinlund | Nominee |
BAFTA Awards
1 nomination
| Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society
5 nominations, 2 won
| Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Andrea Merlo, Emiliano Padovani (for Caesar) | Winner |
| Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture | Joe Letteri, Ryan Stafford, Matt Kutcher, Dan Lemmon, Hannah Blanchini | Winner |
| Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Christoph Salzmann, Florian Schroeder, Quentin Hema, Simone Riginelli | Nominee |
| Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Daniel Barrett, Alessandro Bonora, Mark Edward Allen, Masaya Suzuki (for Koba) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Keith Miller, Jonathan Paquin, Alessandro Sapono, David Houghton Williams | Nominee |
Empire Awards
4 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actor | Andy Serkis | Winner |
| Best Director | Matt Reeves | Nominee |
| Best Film | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
| Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
Annie Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production | Daniel Barrett, Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Alessandro Bonora, Dejan Momcilovic | Winner |
World Soundtrack Academy
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film Composer of the Year | Michael Giacchino (also for Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, Tomorrowland ) | Winner |
Saturn Awards
8 nominations
| Best Director | Matt Reeves | Nominee |
| Best Make-up | Bill Terezakis, Lisa Love | Nominee |
| Best Music | Michael Giacchino | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Younger Actor | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | James Chinlund | Nominee |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Andy Serkis | Nominee |
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
2 nominations
| Best Supporting Actor | Andy Serkis | Nominee |
| Technical Achievement | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Nominee |
4th AACTA International Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Supporting Actor | Andy Serkis | Nominee |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor | Andy Serkis | Nominee |