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The Shining
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #370
- IMDb #59
- Google retired #2036
- Rotten Tomatoes #700
- Metacritic #792
- Letterboxd #205
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1662
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #203
- Metacritic Critics #1656
- Metacritic Audience #85
- Criticker #135
- Douban #383
- Kinopoisk #649
- AlloCiné #83
- Trakt #154
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a writer has been hired as the off-season caretaker. His young son possesses psychic abilities and is warned of the hotel's dark past by invisible spirits. As the father’s sanity deteriorates, the hotel's sinister forces influence him to violence.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writers
- Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick
- Based on
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Released
- 23 May 1980
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $50.3M
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Razzie Award 1980 | Worst Actress | Shelley Duvall (rescinded) | Nominee |
| Razzie Award 1980 | Worst Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Saturn Award 1980 | Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Saturn Award 1980 | Best Supporting Actor | Scatman Crothers | Winner |
| Saturn Award 1980 | Best Horror Film | Nominee | |
| Saturn Award 1980 | Best Music | Béla Bartók | Nominee |
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6 awards — The Shining
×| Best Supporting Actor | Scatman Crothers | Winner |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |
| Best Horror Film | Nominee | |
| Best Music | Béla Bartók | Nominee |
| Worst Actress | Shelley Duvall (rescinded) | Nominee |
| Worst Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominee |