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The Grapes of Wrath
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #165
- IMDb #253
- Google retired #933
- Rotten Tomatoes #175
- Metacritic #83
- Letterboxd #266
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #23
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #798
- Metacritic Critics #53
- Metacritic Audience #439
- Criticker #160
- Kinopoisk #1238
- AlloCiné #254
- Trakt #908
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 98, everyone else 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A poor family of tenant farmers is driven from their Oklahoma home during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. They embark a arduous journey to California, lured by promises of work and prosperity. Along Highway 66, they encounter prejudice, hunger, and exploitation, struggling to maintain their hope and dignity in the face of overwhelming hardship and economic injustice.
Details
- Director
- John Ford
- Writer
- Nunnally Johnson
- Based on
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 15 March 1940
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $800.0K
- Box office
- $1.6M
- Awards
- 11 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 16 →2 major awards won · 11 wins from 16 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Director | John Ford | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Supporting Actress | Jane Darwell | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Outstanding Production | Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson (for 20th Century Fox ) | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Actor | Henry Fonda | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Screenplay | Nunnally Johnson | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Film Editing | Robert L. Simpson | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Sound Recording | Edmund H. Hansen | Nominee |
| Blue Ribbon Awards 1940 | Best Foreign Language Film | John Ford | Winner |
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16 awards — The Grapes of Wrath
×| Best Director | John Ford | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Jane Darwell | Winner |
| Best Actor | Henry Fonda | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Robert L. Simpson | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Nunnally Johnson | Nominee |
| Best Sound Recording | Edmund H. Hansen | Nominee |
| Outstanding Production | Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson (for 20th Century Fox ) | Nominee |
| Best Acting | Jane Darwell | Winner |
| Best Acting | Henry Fonda | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Top Ten Films | Winner |
| Best Director | John Ford (also for The Long Voyage Home ) | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | John Ford | Winner |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |