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Scarface
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #393
- IMDb #83
- Google retired #301
- Rotten Tomatoes #1072
- Metacritic #903
- Letterboxd #286
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2269
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #205
- Metacritic Audience #60
- Criticker #424
- Douban #364
- Kinopoisk #117
- AlloCiné #89
- Trakt #111
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 65, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 71, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A determined Cuban refugee arrives in Miami with nothing. Ambitious and ruthless, he violently claws his way up through the city’s criminal underworld. His insatiable greed for power and wealth fuels his meteoric rise as a powerful drug lord. However, his paranoia and cocaine-fueled ego begin to erode his empire, creating enemies and sowing distrust among those closest to him.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writer
- Oliver Stone
- Based on
- a work by Ben Hecht, Howard Hawks
- Released
- 9 December 1983
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 170 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $66.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| 41st Golden Globe Awards 1983 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Al Pacino | Nominee |
| 41st Golden Globe Awards 1983 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Steven Bauer | Nominee |
| 41st Golden Globe Awards 1983 | Best Original Score | Giorgio Moroder | Nominee |
| 31st Motion Picture Sound Editors awards 1983 | Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects | Maurice Schell | Nominee |
| 4th Golden Raspberry Awards 1983 | Worst Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| 8th Golden Satellite Awards 1983 | Best Classic DVD Release | Nominee |
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6 awards — Scarface
×| Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | Al Pacino | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Giorgio Moroder | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Steven Bauer | Nominee |
| Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects | Maurice Schell | Nominee |
| Worst Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| Best Classic DVD Release | Nominee |