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Rear Window
MEANRANK
88/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #27
- IMDb #67
- Google retired #1454
- Rotten Tomatoes #17
- Metacritic #7
- Letterboxd #75
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #60
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #79
- Metacritic Critics #6
- Metacritic Audience #63
- Criticker #26
- Douban #188
- Kinopoisk #274
- AlloCiné #57
- Trakt #120
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Metacritic critics on 100. Critics average 100, everyone else 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A photojournalist confined to his apartment with a broken leg passes the time by observing his neighbors through his rear window. His casual people-watching turns into obsession when he begins to suspect one neighbor may have murdered his wife. With the help of his fashion-model girlfriend, he tries to piece together the clues and prove a crime was committed.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer
- John Michael Hayes
- Released
- 1 August 1954
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $37.0M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 8 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →5 wins from 13 nominations across 10 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1955 | Best Director | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1955 | Best Sound – Recording | Loren L. Ryder | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1955 | Best Cinematography – Color | Robert Burks | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1955 | Best Adapted Screenplay | John Michael Hayes | Nominee |
| BAFTA Award 1955 | Best Film | Rear Window | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1955 | Best Written American Drama | John Michael Hayes | Nominee |
| Venice Film Festival 1954 | Golden Lion | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Online Film & Television Association Award 2002 | OFTA Film Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Rear Window | Winner |
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13 awards — Rear Window
×| Best Adapted Screenplay | John Michael Hayes | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Color | Robert Burks | Nominee |
| Best Director | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Best Sound – Recording | Loren L. Ryder | Nominee |
| Best Film | Rear Window | Nominee |
| Golden Lion | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Best Written American Drama | John Michael Hayes | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture Screenplay | John Michael Hayes | Winner |
| Best Actress | Grace Kelly | Winner |
| Best Actress | Grace Kelly | Winner |
| National Film Registry | Rear Window | Winner |
| OFTA Film Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Rear Window | Winner |
| Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |