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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
· Movie
· 92 min
B
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #790
- IMDb #738
- Rotten Tomatoes #604
- Metacritic #660
- Letterboxd #1027
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #786
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #917
- Metacritic Critics #529
- Metacritic Audience #1289
- Kinopoisk #2619
- AlloCiné #1621
- Trakt #1363
Every rating
70–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92.
See the most agreed on films →An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Details
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Writer
- Edmund H. North
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 18 September 1951
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $995.0K
- Box office
- $1.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Golden Globe Award 1952 | Best Film Promoting International Understanding | Winner |
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Golden Globe Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film Promoting International Understanding | Winner |