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Snowden
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2297
- IMDb #1456
- Google retired #1503
- Rotten Tomatoes #2765
- Metacritic #2385
- Letterboxd #2942
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3254
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2580
- Metacritic Critics #2599
- Metacritic Audience #1895
- Criticker #1748
- Douban #1052
- Kinopoisk #1863
- AlloCiné #649
- Trakt #986
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 60, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant computer specialist is recruited by the CIA and becomes a key operative for the National Security Agency. Over time, he grows increasingly disillusioned as he witnesses the extreme lengths of mass surveillance programs implemented by the U.S. government, leading him to consider leaking classified information to the press.
Details
- Director
- Oliver Stone
- Writers
- Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone
- Based on
- The Snowden Files by Luke Harding
- Released
- 15 September 2016
- Country
- France, Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $37.4M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →3 wins from 9 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Grammy Awards 2017 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | Peter Gabriel For the song "The Veil" | Nominee |
| 2017 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice 2017 | — | Oliver Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald | Winner |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2017 | Worst Supporting Actor | Nicolas Cage | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2017 | Best Actor | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2017 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Oliver Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald | Winner |
| Camerimage 2016 | Bronze Frog Award for Best Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle | Winner |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2016 | Best Portrayal of Washington D.C. | Snowden | Nominee |
| Women Film Critics Circle 2016 | Best Screen Couple | Snowden | Nominee |
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9 awards — Snowden
×| Best Song Written for Visual Media | Peter Gabriel For the song "The Veil" | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Oliver Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald | Winner |
| Best Actor | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Nominee |
| — | Oliver Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald | Winner |
| Bronze Frog Award for Best Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle | Winner |
| Best Male Image in a Movie | Snowden | Nominee |
| Best Screen Couple | Snowden | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actor | Nicolas Cage | Nominee |
| Best Portrayal of Washington D.C. | Snowden | Nominee |