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The Third Man
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #120
- IMDb #239
- Google retired #1201
- Rotten Tomatoes #48
- Metacritic #37
- Letterboxd #177
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #67
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #238
- Metacritic Critics #32
- Metacritic Audience #191
- Criticker #48
- Douban #591
- Kinopoisk #1098
- AlloCiné #438
- Trakt #667
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 76, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 98, everyone else 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A penniless American writer arrives in post-war Vienna, only to learn that his friend has recently died in a suspicious accident. Skeptical of the official story, he begins his own investigation into the circumstances. He quickly finds himself entangled in a shadowy world of black markets and deception, discovering that his friend was not the man he thought and that his quest for the truth places him in grave danger.
Details
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Writer
- Graham Greene
- Based on
- a work by Graham Greene
- Studio
- London Films Productions
- Released
- 31 August 1949
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, German, Russian, French
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (27) →
Awards & nominations
See all 7 →2 major awards won · 3 wins from 7 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1949 | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Robert Krasker | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1949 | Palme d'Or | Carol Reed | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1949 | Best Film Editing | Oswald Hafenrichter | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1949 | Best Director | Carol Reed | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1949 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Carol Reed | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1949 | Best Film | Carol Reed | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1949 | Best British Film | Carol Reed | Winner |
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7 awards — The Third Man
×| Best Cinematography – Black and White | Robert Krasker | Winner |
| Best Director | Carol Reed | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Oswald Hafenrichter | Nominee |
| Palme d'Or | Carol Reed | Winner |
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Carol Reed | Nominee |
| Best British Film | Carol Reed | Winner |
| Best Film | Carol Reed | Nominee |