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The War of the Worlds
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2341
- IMDb #2285
- Google retired #2941
- Rotten Tomatoes #1627
- Metacritic #1252
- Letterboxd #2595
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1173
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2497
- Metacritic Audience #2420
- Criticker #1856
- Kinopoisk #4106
- AlloCiné #2893
- Trakt #2797
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 84, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The residents of a small California town witness a fiery meteor crash. They soon discover it is the arrival of a Martian war machine, which begins a ruthless attack with a devastating heat-ray. As more machines emerge across the globe, humanity's armies are powerless against the alien technology, and society collapses into panic, forcing people to confront the possibility of their own extinction.
Details
- Director
- Byron Haskin
- Writer
- Barré Lyndon
- Based on
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 3 April 1953
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, German, Italian, Hindi
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $2.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 major award won · 1 win from 3 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 26th Academy Awards 1954 | Best Special Effects | Winner | |
| 26th Academy Awards 1954 | Best Film Editing | Everett Douglas | Nominee |
| 26th Academy Awards 1954 | Best Sound | Loren L. Ryder | Nominee |
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3 awards — The War of the Worlds
×| Best Special Effects | Winner | |
| Best Film Editing | Everett Douglas | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Loren L. Ryder | Nominee |