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The Midnight Sky
2020
· Movie
· 118 min
F
MEANRANK
48/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5436
- IMDb #4968
- Google retired #3878
- Rotten Tomatoes #4376
- Metacritic #3942
- Letterboxd #5222
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3786
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5022
- Metacritic Critics #2603
- Metacritic Audience #4859
- Criticker #3861
- Kinopoisk #5214
- AlloCiné #4638
- Trakt #4635
Every rating
24–61
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 24, highest is Trakt on 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning from a mission to a habitable moon of Jupiter. The Earth has been devastated by a global catastrophe, and he must warn them not to return home. The film intercuts his struggle for survival with the crew's journey through space.
Details
- Director
- George Clooney
- Writer
- Mark L. Smith
- Based on
- Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Released
- 10 December 2020
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $70.0K
- Awards
- 3 wins, 19 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 22 →3 wins from 22 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2021 | Best Visual Effects | Matt Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon, and David Watkins | Nominee |
| Art Directors Guild Awards 2021 | Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Jim Bissell | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2021 | Best Young Actress | Caoilinn Springall | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2021 | Best Score | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2021 | Best Visual Effects | Mark Bakowski, Georgina Street and Jill Brooks | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 2021 | Best Original Score | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
| Austin Film Critics Association 2021 | Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance | Matt Kasmir | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2021 | Best Special Visual Effects | Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence and David Watkins | Nominee |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
3 nominations
| Best Score | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Mark Bakowski, Georgina Street and Jill Brooks | Nominee |
| Best Young Actress | Caoilinn Springall | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Visual Effects | Matt Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon, and David Watkins | Nominee |
Art Directors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film | Jim Bissell | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project | Michael Balthazart, Jonathan Opgenhaffen, John-Peter Li, Simon Aluze (for Aether) | Winner |
| Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature | Matt Kasmir, Greg Baxter, Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon, Dave Watkins | Winner |
Satellite Awards
5 nominations, 1 won
| Best Original Score | Alexandre Desplat | Winner |
| Best Art Direction and Production Design | Jim Bissell and John Bush | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Martin Ruhe | Nominee |
| Best Sound (Mixing and Editing) | Randy Thom, Dan Hiland, Todd Beckett, Danny Hambrook & Bjorn Schroeder | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Mark Bakowski, Georgina Street and Jill Brooks | Nominee |
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
3 nominations
| Best Cinematography | Martin Ruhe | Nominee |
| Best Score | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, Dave Watkins, and Max Solomon | Nominee |
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore | Michael Alexander and Peter Clarke | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film | Bjørn Schroeder, Randy Thom, Kyrsten Mate, Leff Lefferts, Nicholas Docter, Shelley Roden and John Roesch | Nominee |
Austin Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance | Matt Kasmir | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Special Visual Effects | Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence and David Watkins | Nominee |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score in a Feature Film | Alexandre Desplat | Nominee |
Set Decorators Society of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film | John Bush and Jim Bissell | Nominee |