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Tsotsi
MEANRANK
74/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 86.
See the most agreed on films →A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
Details
- Director
- Gavin Hood
- Writer
- Gavin Hood
- Studio
- Movieworld Productions, UK Film & TV Production Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
- Released
- 23 December 2005
- Country
- South Africa, United Kingdom
- Language
- Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $9.9M
- 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 3 ceremonies
| 78th Academy Awards 2006 | Best International Feature Film | Winner | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2006 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | South Africa | Nominee |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Non-European Film | Gavin Hood | Nominee |
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3 awards — Tsotsi
×| Best International Feature Film | Winner |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | South Africa | Nominee |
| Best Non-European Film | Gavin Hood | Nominee |