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Stagecoach
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #711
- IMDb #617
- Google retired #3419
- Rotten Tomatoes #268
- Metacritic #268
- Letterboxd #656
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #27
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1032
- Metacritic Critics #115
- Metacritic Audience #1264
- Criticker #405
- Kinopoisk #1427
- AlloCiné #1007
- Trakt #1129
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 96, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of strangers—including a drunken doctor, a pregnant officer's wife, a bank embezzler, and a prostitute with a heart of gold—are forced to travel together on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory. Their journey becomes a fight for survival that reveals their true characters.
Details
- Director
- John Ford
- Writer
- Dudley Nichols
- Studio
- Walter Wanger Productions
- Released
- 2 March 1939
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $531.4K
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (68) →
Awards & nominations
See all 11 →2 major awards won · 6 wins from 11 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Supporting Actor | Thomas Mitchell | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Scoring | Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Outstanding Production | Walter Wanger | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Director | John Ford | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Art Direction | Alexander Toluboff | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Bert Glennon | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1939 | Best Film Editing | Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer | Nominee |
| National Board of Review Awards 1939 | Best Acting | Thomas Mitchell | Winner |
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11 awards — Stagecoach
×| Best Scoring | Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Thomas Mitchell | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Alexander Toluboff | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Bert Glennon | Nominee |
| Best Director | John Ford | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer | Nominee |
| Outstanding Production | Walter Wanger | Nominee |
| Best Acting | Thomas Mitchell | Winner |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Best Director | John Ford | Winner |
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |