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Seven Years in Tibet
1997
· Movie
· 136 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2251
- IMDb #1932
- Google retired #390
- Rotten Tomatoes #2796
- Metacritic #2464
- Letterboxd #2015
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3484
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2317
- Metacritic Critics #2962
- Metacritic Audience #1589
- Criticker #1720
- Kinopoisk #634
- AlloCiné #850
- Trakt #1541
Every rating
49–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 56, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An arrogant Austrian mountaineer becomes lost in the Himalayas after escaping a British internment camp in India during World War II. He finds refuge in the forbidden city of Lhasa and slowly earns the trust of the people, eventually forming a close friendship with the young Dalai Lama, which profoundly changes his worldview.
Details
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Writer
- Becky Johnston
- Based on
- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- Released
- 12 September 1997
- Country
- United States, France
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $70.0M
- Box office
- $131.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 7 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →3 wins from 10 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| 40th Grammy Awards 1997 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | John Williams | Nominee |
| 55th Golden Globe Awards 1997 | Best Original Score | John Williams | Nominee |
| Guild of German Art House Cinemas 1997 | Foreign Film | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Winner |
| Japan Academy Prize 1997 | Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
| Political Film Society 1997 | Human Rights | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
| Political Film Society 1997 | Peace | Seven Years in Tibet | Winner |
| Political Film Society 1997 | Exposé | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
| Rembrandt Award 1997 | Best Actor | Brad Pitt | Winner |
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40th Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | John Williams | Nominee |
55th Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score | John Williams | Nominee |
Political Film Society
3 nominations, 1 won
| Peace | Seven Years in Tibet | Winner |
| Exposé | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
| Human Rights | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
Guild of German Art House Cinemas
1 nomination, 1 won
| Foreign Film | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Winner |
Rembrandt Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actor | Brad Pitt | Winner |
Japan Academy Prize
1 nomination
| Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Seven Years in Tibet | Nominee |
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
1 nomination
| Most Annoying Fake Accent | Brad Pitt (also for The Devil's Own ) | Nominee |
YoungStar Award
1 nomination
| Best Young Actor in a Drama Film | Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk | Nominee |