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The Lovely Bones
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3992
- IMDb #3095
- Google retired #2776
- Rotten Tomatoes #4214
- Metacritic #3992
- Letterboxd #2427
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4702
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3856
- Metacritic Critics #4093
- Metacritic Audience #3511
- Criticker #2789
- Douban #1442
- Kinopoisk #2163
- AlloCiné #2045
- Trakt #2055
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 30, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 36, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A fourteen-year-old girl is murdered and finds herself in a personalized afterlife. From this surreal in-between place, she watches over her grieving family and her killer. She struggles to balance her desire for vengeance with her hope that her family can heal and find peace without her.
Details
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writers
- Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens
- Based on
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Released
- 26 December 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $65.0M
- Box office
- $93.6M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 16 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 19 →3 wins from 19 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009 | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| 67th Golden Globe Awards 2009 | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| 82nd Academy Awards 2009 | Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Young Actor/Actress | Saoirse Ronan | Winner |
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Visual Effects | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Cinematography | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2009 | Best Actress | Saoirse Ronan | Nominee |
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19 awards — The Lovely Bones
×| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Young Actor/Actress | Saoirse Ronan | Winner |
| Best Actress | Saoirse Ronan | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Younger Actor | Saoirse Ronan | Winner |
| Best Fantasy Film | Nominee | |
| Best Music | Brian Eno | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Susan Sarandon | Nominee |
| Best Leading Actress | Saoirse Ronan | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Stanley Tucci | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Saoirse Ronan | Nominee |