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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1300
- IMDb #505
- Google retired #275
- Rotten Tomatoes #2132
- Metacritic #1817
- Letterboxd #1701
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3081
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1291
- Metacritic Critics #2607
- Metacritic Audience #571
- Criticker #1593
- Douban #289
- Kinopoisk #160
- AlloCiné #174
- Trakt #396
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 61, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The comfortable life of a hobbit is shattered when a wizard and thirteen dwarves arrive at his door. They recruit him as a burglar for a quest to reclaim their lost mountain homeland from a fearsome dragon. Reluctantly, he joins their journey into the wild, facing trolls, goblins, and a mysterious creature named Gollum.
Details
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writers
- Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens
- Based on
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Released
- 12 December 2012
- Country
- New Zealand, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 169 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $250.0M
- Box office
- $1.0B
- Awards
- 1 win, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 win from 11 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Production Design | Ra Vincent | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Visual Effects | R. Christopher White | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Visual Effects | Eric Saindon | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Visual Effects | David Clayton | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Tami Lane | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Peter King | Nominee |
| 85th Academy Awards 2013 | Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Rick Findlater | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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11 awards — The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
×| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Tami Lane | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Peter King | Nominee |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Rick Findlater | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Ra Vincent | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Dan Hennah | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Simon Bright | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Joe Letteri | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | R. Christopher White | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Eric Saindon | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | David Clayton | Nominee |
| Annie Award | Winner |