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The Chorus
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1257
- IMDb #469
- Google retired #860
- Rotten Tomatoes #1631
- Metacritic #2222
- Letterboxd #545
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2873
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #336
- Metacritic Critics #2824
- Metacritic Audience #1119
- Kinopoisk #60
- AlloCiné #1385
- Trakt #93
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 92. Critics average 62, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1949 France, a new teacher arrives at a boarding school for troubled boys. The headmaster runs the place with a harsh, repressive rule. The teacher, a compassionate musician, decides to start a choir. Through the music, he begins to reach the students, especially a gifted young singer, and helps them find hope and discipline in a place designed to break their spirits.
Details
- Director
- Christophe Barratier
- Based on
- A Cage of Nightingales
- Released
- 17 March 2004
- Country
- France, Switzerland
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $5.3M
- Box office
- $83.6M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 17 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 20 →2 major awards won · 3 wins from 20 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| César Awards 2004 | Best Sound | Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Naegelen, Daniel Sobrino | Winner |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Music Written for a Film | Bruno Coulais | Winner |
| Academy Award 2004 | Best Foreign Language Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Academy Award 2004 | Best Original Song | " Vois sur ton chemin " | Nominee |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Actor | Gérard Jugnot | Nominee |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Debut | Christophe Barratier | Nominee |
| César Awards 2004 | Best Director | Christophe Barratier | Nominee |
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20 awards — The Chorus
×| Best Music Written for a Film | Bruno Coulais | Winner |
| Best Sound | Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Naegelen, Daniel Sobrino | Winner |
| Best Actor | Gérard Jugnot | Nominee |
| Best Debut | Christophe Barratier | Nominee |
| Best Director | Christophe Barratier | Nominee |
| Best Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | François Chauvaud | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | François Berléand | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best Original Song | " Vois sur ton chemin " | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best Composer | Bruno Coulais | Winner |
| Best Actor | Gérad Jugnot | Nominee |
| Best Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Christophe Barratier, Philippe Lopes-Curval | Nominee |
| Best Film Music | Bruno Coulais | Nominee |
| Best Film Not in the English Language | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best International Feature Film | The Chorus | Nominee |
| Best Performance in an International Feature Film – Leading Young Performer | Jean-Baptiste Maunier | Nominee |
| Best Film | The Chorus | Nominee |