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The African Queen
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #701
- IMDb #740
- Rotten Tomatoes #447
- Metacritic #393
- Letterboxd #1387
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #344
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1019
- Metacritic Critics #168
- Metacritic Audience #1619
- Criticker #646
- Kinopoisk #2062
- AlloCiné #1005
- Trakt #1389
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In German East Africa at the outbreak of WWI, a prim missionary and a rough-hewn riverboat captain are forced together. They embark on a perilous journey down a river in his dilapidated boat, *The African Queen*, with the audacious goal of attacking a German gunboat, transforming from reluctant partners into a determined team.
Details
- Director
- John Huston
- Writers
- James Agee, John Huston
- Based on
- The African Queen by C. S. Forester
- Studio
- Romulus Films, Horizon Pictures
- Released
- 7 January 1952
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, German, Swahili
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $10.8M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 11 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Director | John Huston | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Actress | Katharine Hepburn | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Screenplay | James Agee and John Huston | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1951 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| British Academy Film Awards 1951 | Best Foreign Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1951 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1951 | Best Film | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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11 awards — The African Queen
×| Best Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Winner |
| Best Actress | Katharine Hepburn | Nominee |
| Best Director | John Huston | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | James Agee and John Huston | Nominee |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |
| Best Actress | Katharine Hepburn | Nominee |
| Best Director | John Huston | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee | |
| Best Foreign Actor | Humphrey Bogart | Nominee |