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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #394
- IMDb #80
- Google retired #648
- Rotten Tomatoes #702
- Metacritic #1495
- Letterboxd #366
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1743
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #137
- Metacritic Critics #2669
- Metacritic Audience #147
- Criticker #289
- Douban #362
- Kinopoisk #128
- AlloCiné #38
- Trakt #75
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94. Critics average 70, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The Rebel Alliance learns the Empire is constructing a second Death Star. While a team works to destroy its energy shield on the forest moon of Endor, Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine aboard the space station. He struggles to bring his father back to the light side of the Force.
Details
- Director
- Richard Marquand
- Writers
- George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan
- Studio
- Lucasfilm Ltd.
- Released
- 25 May 1983
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Kikuyu, Tagalog, Kalmyk-Oirat, Quechua, Polish
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $32.4M
- Box office
- $572.7M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 13 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 21 →1 major award won · 8 wins from 21 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1983 | Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects | Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1983 | Best Art Direction | Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe and Michael D. Ford | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1983 | Best Original Score | John Williams | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1983 | Best Sound Effects Editing | Ben Burtt | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1983 | Best Sound | Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1983 | Best Makeup and Hair | Phil Tippett and Stuart Freeborn | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1983 | Best Production Design | Norman Reynolds | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1983 | Best Sound | Ben Burtt, Gary Summers and Tony Dawe | Nominee |
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21 awards — Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
×| Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects | Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe and Michael D. Ford | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | John Williams | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe | Nominee |
| Best Sound Effects Editing | Ben Burtt | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Mark Hamill | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Aggie Guerard Rodgers and Nilo Rodis-Jamero | Winner |
| Best Make-up | Phil Tippett and Stuart Freeborn | Winner |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Howard Kazanjian | Winner |
| Best Special Effects | Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Ken Ralston | Winner |
| Best Actress | Carrie Fisher | Nominee |
| Best Director | Richard Marquand | Nominee |
| Best Music | John Williams | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Billy Dee Williams | Nominee |
| Best Writing | Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas | Nominee |
| Best Special Visual Effects | Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Kit West | Winner |
| Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special | John Williams | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hair | Phil Tippett and Stuart Freeborn | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Norman Reynolds | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Ben Burtt, Gary Summers and Tony Dawe | Nominee |
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Richard Marquand, Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas | Winner |