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Sunshine
2007
· Movie
· 107 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2082
- IMDb #1650
- Google retired #2369
- Rotten Tomatoes #2038
- Metacritic #1771
- Letterboxd #1370
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2247
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2304
- Metacritic Critics #2043
- Metacritic Audience #1340
- Criticker #1278
- Douban #1662
- Kinopoisk #1766
- AlloCiné #2013
- Trakt #2028
Every rating
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out of 100
A team of astronauts is sent on a desperate mission to reignite the dying sun with a massive stellar bomb. As they journey through the vast emptiness of space, they face technical disasters, personal conflicts, and the psychological toll of their task. Their mission becomes further complicated when they discover a distress beacon from a ship that disappeared on the same mission years prior.
Details
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- Alex Garland
- Released
- 5 April 2007
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $34.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 11 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 12 →1 win from 12 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| 13th Empire Awards 2007 | Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Nominee | |
| 13th Empire Awards 2007 | Best British Film | Nominee | |
| 34th Saturn Awards 2007 | Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee | |
| 5th Irish Film & Television Awards 2007 | Best Actor in a Lead Role in Film | Cillian Murphy | Nominee |
| British Independent Film Awards 2007 2007 | Best Technical Achievement | Mark Tildesley | Winner |
| British Independent Film Awards 2007 2007 | Best Actor | Cillian Murphy | Nominee |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007 | Best Film Score | John Murphy | Nominee |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007 | Best Technical Achievement | Chris Gill, Alwin Kuchler | Nominee |
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British Independent Film Awards 2007
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Technical Achievement | Mark Tildesley | Winner |
| Best Actor | Cillian Murphy | Nominee |
13th Empire Awards
2 nominations
| Best British Film | Nominee | |
| Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Nominee |
Evening Standard British Film Awards
2 nominations
| Best Film Score | John Murphy | Nominee |
| Best Technical Achievement | Chris Gill, Alwin Kuchler | Nominee |
34th Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Science Fiction Film | Nominee |
5th Irish Film & Television Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor in a Lead Role in Film | Cillian Murphy | Nominee |
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
1 nomination
| Best Picture | Nominee |
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2007
1 nomination
| British Director of the Year | Danny Boyle | Nominee |
Los Angeles Film Festival
1 nomination
| Film Presented | Nominee |
Satellite Awards 2007
1 nomination
| Best Art Direction and Production Design | Mark Tildesley, Gary Freeman, Stephen Morahan, Denis Schnegg | Nominee |