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The Odd Couple
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #985
- IMDb #941
- Rotten Tomatoes #259
- Metacritic #462
- Letterboxd #1029
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #226
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #683
- Metacritic Critics #366
- Metacritic Audience #1140
- Criticker #517
- Kinopoisk #1320
- AlloCiné #3307
- Trakt #1143
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 92, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After his wife throws him out, a neurotic, neat-freak news writer moves in with his best friend, a slovenly, easy-going sportswriter. Their polar-opposite lifestyles immediately clash, turning their apartment into a comedic battleground. Their friendship is tested as their compulsive habits drive each other to the brink of madness.
Details
- Director
- Gene Saks
- Writer
- Neil Simon
- Based on
- The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 16 May 1968
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $44.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 12 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 12 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1968 | Best Written American Comedy | Neil Simon | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1968 | Best Film Editing | Frank Bracht | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1968 | Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Neil Simon | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1968 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Gene Saks | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1968 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Walter Matthau | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1968 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee | |
| Golden Globe Awards 1968 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jack Lemmon | Nominee |
| Grammy Awards 1968 | Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Neal Hefti | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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12 awards — The Odd Couple
×| Best Written American Comedy | Neil Simon | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Walter Matthau | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jack Lemmon | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Frank Bracht | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Neil Simon | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Gene Saks | Nominee |
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Neal Hefti | Nominee |
| Top Comedy | Winner | |
| Top Male Comedy Performance | Walter Matthau | Winner |
| Top Male Comedy Performance | Jack Lemmon | Nominee |
| Best Edited Feature Film | Frank Bracht | Nominee |