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The Eight Hundred
2020
· Movie
· 147 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Every rating
64–89
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the most agreed on films →In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Details
- Director
- Guan Hu
- Writers
- Guan Hu, Zhang Xiaobei, Zhao Dongling, Zhao Ningyu
- Studio
- Beijing Diqi Yinxiang Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Pictures, Beijing Enlight Pictures, Tencent Pictures
- Released
- 14 August 2020
- Country
- China
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $461.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (34) →
Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Golden Reel Awards 2021 | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Foreign Language Feature | Kang Fu, Steve Miller, Ai Long Tan, Lan Long, Fei Yu | Winner |
| Visual Effects Society Awards 2021 | Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature | Sefano Cieri, Aaron Auty, Simon Carlile, Patrick Zentis (for 1937 Shanghai Downtown) | Nominee |
| Visual Effects Society Awards 2021 | Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature | Jamie Macdougall, Mark Honer, David Pekarek (for Shanghai Warehouse District) | Nominee |
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Golden Reel Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Foreign Language Feature | Kang Fu, Steve Miller, Ai Long Tan, Lan Long, Fei Yu | Winner |
Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature | Sefano Cieri, Aaron Auty, Simon Carlile, Patrick Zentis (for 1937 Shanghai Downtown) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature | Jamie Macdougall, Mark Honer, David Pekarek (for Shanghai Warehouse District) | Nominee |