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The Wizard of Oz
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #387
- IMDb #218
- Google retired #1673
- Rotten Tomatoes #194
- Metacritic #107
- Letterboxd #776
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #94
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #603
- Metacritic Critics #127
- Metacritic Audience #236
- Criticker #541
- Douban #490
- Kinopoisk #938
- AlloCiné #1164
- Trakt #611
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 95, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A young girl from Kansas is swept away by a tornado to the magical land of Oz. Desperate to return home, she is told to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City and seek help from the mysterious Wizard. Along the way, she befriends a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Cowardly Lion, who join her quest, all while evading the Wicked Witch of the West.
Details
- Director
- Victor Fleming
- Writers
- Edgar Allan Woolf, Florence Ryerson, Noel Langley
- Based on
- a work by L. Frank Baum
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 21 August 1939
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $2.8M
- Box office
- $33.8M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →3 major awards won · 3 wins from 6 nominations across 1 ceremony
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Original Score | Herbert Stothart | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Original Song | " Over the Rainbow " Music by Harold Arlen ; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Academy Juvenile Award | Judy Garland For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year. (She was jointly awarded for her performances in Babes in Arms and The Wizard of Oz ). | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Outstanding Production | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Art Direction | Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1940 | Best Special Effects | A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer | Nominee |
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×| Academy Juvenile Award | Judy Garland For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year. (She was jointly awarded for her performances in Babes in Arms and The Wizard of Oz ). | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Herbert Stothart | Winner |
| Best Original Song | " Over the Rainbow " Music by Harold Arlen ; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer | Nominee |
| Outstanding Production | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominee |