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The Producers
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #766
- IMDb #1121
- Rotten Tomatoes #729
- Metacritic #72
- Letterboxd #1201
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #794
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1111
- Metacritic Audience #359
- Criticker #643
- Kinopoisk #1804
- AlloCiné #2248
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Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Metacritic critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Details
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Writer
- Mel Brooks
- Released
- 18 March 1968
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $947.0K
- Awards
- 3 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →2 major awards won · 3 wins from 8 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1967 | Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Mel Brooks | Winner |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1967 | Best Written American Original Screenplay | Mel Brooks | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1967 | Best Supporting Actor | Gene Wilder | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1967 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Zero Mostel | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1967 | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1967 | Best Written American Comedy | Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1967 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| Satellite Awards 1967 | Best DVD Extras | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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8 awards — The Producers
×| Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Mel Brooks | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Gene Wilder | Nominee |
| Best Written American Original Screenplay | Mel Brooks | Winner |
| Best Written American Comedy | Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Zero Mostel | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Mel Brooks | Nominee |
| National Film Registry | Winner |
| Best DVD Extras | Nominee |