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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3720
- IMDb #3653
- Google retired #2866
- Rotten Tomatoes #3903
- Metacritic #3190
- Letterboxd #3237
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3777
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4402
- Metacritic Critics #3444
- Metacritic Audience #2672
- Criticker #2343
- Douban #856
- Kinopoisk #2305
- AlloCiné #2697
- Trakt #2945
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 42, highest is Douban on 78. Critics average 50, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A massive, powerful cloud of energy is moving through space, destroying everything in its path on a direct course for Earth. The newly refitted Starship Enterprise is dispatched to intercept it. The crew must uncover the nature of this mysterious entity and find a way to communicate with it before it reaches its destination.
Details
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Writers
- Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston
- Based on
- In Thy Image by Alan Dean Foster
- Released
- 7 December 1979
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $44.0M
- Box office
- $139.3M
- Awards
- 1 win, 14 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 15 →1 win from 15 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1980 | Best Art Direction | Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris & John Vallone (Art Direction), Linda DeScenna (Set Decoration) | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1980 | Best Visual Effects | Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart & Grant McCune | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1980 | Best Original Score | Jerry Goldsmith | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1980 | Best Original Score | Jerry Goldsmith | Nominee |
| Hugo Awards 1980 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Robert Wise (director), Harold Livingston (screenplay), Alan Dean Foster (story) & Gene Roddenberry (story) | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Director | Robert Wise | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Actor | William Shatner | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Actress | Persis Khambatta | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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15 awards — Star Trek: The Motion Picture
×| Best Art Direction | Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris & John Vallone (Art Direction), Linda DeScenna (Set Decoration) | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Jerry Goldsmith | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart & Grant McCune | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Jerry Goldsmith | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | John Dykstra, Douglas Trumbull & Richard Yuricich | Winner |
| Best Actor | William Shatner | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Persis Khambatta | Nominee |
| Best Costumes | Robert Fletcher | Nominee |
| Best Director | Robert Wise | Nominee |
| Best Make-up | Fred Phillips, Janna Phillips & Ve Neill | Nominee |
| Best Music | Jerry Goldsmith | Nominee |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Gene Roddenberry | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Leonard Nimoy | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Nichelle Nichols | Nominee |
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Robert Wise (director), Harold Livingston (screenplay), Alan Dean Foster (story) & Gene Roddenberry (story) | Nominee |