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The Iron Giant
1999
· Movie
· 86 min
A
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #32
- IMDb #33
- Google retired #23
- Rotten Tomatoes #58
- Metacritic #20
- Letterboxd #15
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #64
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #77
- Metacritic Critics #40
- Metacritic Audience #14
- Criticker #22
- Douban #53
- Kinopoisk #52
- AlloCiné #57
- Trakt #40
Every rating
67–98
out of 100
A young boy in 1950s Maine befriends a giant robot from outer space. He must keep his friend hidden from a paranoid government agent who wants to destroy it. The robot is a gentle giant, but its programming contains a deadly weapon, forcing it to choose between its nature and its friendship.
Details
- Director
- Brad Bird
- Writer
- Tim McCanlies
- Based on
- The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
- Released
- 6 August 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $23.3M
- Awards
- 17 wins, 11 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 28 →1 major award won · 17 wins from 28 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| BAFTA Children's Award 2000 | Best Feature Film | Brad Bird, Allison Abbate, Des McAnuff, and Tim McCanlies | Winner |
| Florida Film Critics Circle 2000 | Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Winner |
| Genesis Awards 2000 | Best Feature Film – Animated | Winner | |
| Hugo Award 2000 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Brad Bird (screen story and directed by), Tim McCanlies (screenplay by), and Ted Hughes (based on the book The Iron Man by) | Nominee |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2000 | Best Animated Film | Winner | |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2000 | Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Winner |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards 2000 | Best Sound Editing – Animated Feature | Winner | |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards 2000 | Best Sound Editing – Music – Animation | Nominee |
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BAFTA Children's Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Feature Film | Brad Bird, Allison Abbate, Des McAnuff, and Tim McCanlies | Winner |
Annie Awards
15 nominations, 9 won
| Best Animated Feature Film | Allison Abbate, Des McAnuff, and John Walker Warner Bros. Pictures ; Warner Bros. Feature Animation | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Brad Bird | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production | Michael Kamen | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Alan Bodner | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production | Eli Marienthal For playing "Hogarth Hughes". | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Tim McCanlies (screenplay) and Brad Bird (story) | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation | Steve Markowski | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Effects Animation | Allen Foster | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Mark Andrews | Winner |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Mark Whiting | Nominee |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation | Jim Van der Keyl | Nominee |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation | Dean Wellins | Nominee |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Effects Animation | Michel Gagné | Nominee |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Kevin O'Brien | Nominee |
| Outstanding Individual Achievement in Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Dean Wellins | Nominee |
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Sound Editing – Animated Feature | Winner | |
| Best Sound Editing – Music – Animation | Nominee |
Young Artist Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Performance in a Voice-Over (TV or Feature Film) – Young Actor | Eli Marienthal | Winner |
| Best Family Feature Film – Animated | Nominee |
Florida Film Critics Circle
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Winner |
Genesis Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Feature Film – Animated | Winner |
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Brad Bird | Winner |
Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Winner |
Hugo Award
1 nomination
| Best Dramatic Presentation | Brad Bird (screen story and directed by), Tim McCanlies (screenplay by), and Ted Hughes (based on the book The Iron Man by) | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Home Video Release | Nominee |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
1 nomination
| Best Script | Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies | Nominee |