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Venom
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3859
- IMDb #3043
- Google retired #967
- Rotten Tomatoes #3398
- Metacritic #4278
- Letterboxd #3910
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4659
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1654
- Metacritic Critics #4527
- Metacritic Audience #3306
- Criticker #3237
- Douban #1422
- Kinopoisk #2740
- AlloCiné #3075
- Trakt #1961
Every rating
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Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 31, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 33, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A controversial journalist investigates the shady experiments of the Life Foundation. During his investigation, his body becomes merged with an alien symbiote that grants him superpowers but also a violent, monstrous alter-ego. He must learn to control this new entity, Venom, as the Life Foundation sends other, more dangerous symbiotes to hunt them down.
Details
- Director
- Ruben Fleischer
- Writers
- Jeff Pinkner, Kelly Marcel, Scott Rosenberg
- Based on
- Venom
- Released
- 28 September 2018
- Country
- China, United States
- Language
- English, Mandarin, Malay
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $116.0M
- Box office
- $856.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 8 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →1 win from 9 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Golden Trailer Awards 2019 | Best Action TV Spot | "Control" (Wild Card) | Nominee |
| Golden Trailer Awards 2019 | Best Wildposts | "Wildposts" (LA/Lindeman Associates) | Nominee |
| Golden Trailer Awards 2019 | Best Voice Over TV Spot | "Control" (Wild Card) | Nominee |
| Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards 2019 | Best Visual Effects or Animated Performance | Tom Hardy | Nominee |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards 2019 | Best Kiss | Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams (Eddie Brock and Venom, Anne Weying) | Nominee |
| Taurus World Stunt Awards 2019 | Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director | Andy Gill, Jack Gill, Chris O'Hara, and Spiro Razatos | Nominee |
| Taurus World Stunt Awards 2019 | Best Specialty Stunt | Joe Dryden and Jimmy N. Roberts | Nominee |
| Taurus World Stunt Awards 2019 | Best Work With a Vehicle | Jack Gill, Henry Kingi Sr., Jalil Jay Lynch, Denney Pierce, and Jimmy N. Roberts | Winner |
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9 awards — Venom
×| Best Work With a Vehicle | Jack Gill, Henry Kingi Sr., Jalil Jay Lynch, Denney Pierce, and Jimmy N. Roberts | Winner |
| Best Specialty Stunt | Joe Dryden and Jimmy N. Roberts | Nominee |
| Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director | Andy Gill, Jack Gill, Chris O'Hara, and Spiro Razatos | Nominee |
| Best Action TV Spot | "Control" (Wild Card) | Nominee |
| Best Voice Over TV Spot | "Control" (Wild Card) | Nominee |
| Best Wildposts | "Wildposts" (LA/Lindeman Associates) | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects or Animated Performance | Tom Hardy | Nominee |
| Best Kiss | Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams (Eddie Brock and Venom, Anne Weying) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature | Aharon Bourland, Jordan Walsh, Aleksandar Chalyovski, Federico Frassinelli | Nominee |