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Vertigo
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #81
- IMDb #142
- Google retired #1456
- Rotten Tomatoes #236
- Metacritic #9
- Letterboxd #207
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #530
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #312
- Metacritic Critics #2
- Metacritic Audience #95
- Criticker #67
- Douban #191
- Kinopoisk #466
- AlloCiné #121
- Trakt #340
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 75, highest is Metacritic critics on 100. Critics average 97, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia and vertigo is hired to follow a friend’s wife, who appears to be possessed by a tragic ancestor. His surveillance turns into a complex obsession with the enigmatic woman, leading him down a twisting path of mistaken identity, manipulation, and haunting memories.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers
- Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor
- Based on
- The Living and the Dead by Boileau-Narcejac
- Released
- 28 May 1958
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $7.8M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 31st Academy Awards 1959 | Best Sound | George Dutton | Nominee |
| 31st Academy Awards 1959 | Best Production Design | Samuel M. Comer | Nominee |
| 31st Academy Awards 1959 | Best Production Design | Henry Bumstead | Nominee |
| 31st Academy Awards 1959 | Best Production Design | Hal Pereira | Nominee |
| 31st Academy Awards 1959 | Best Production Design | Frank R. McKelvy | Nominee |
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5 awards — Vertigo
×| Best Production Design | Samuel M. Comer | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Henry Bumstead | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Hal Pereira | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Frank R. McKelvy | Nominee |
| Best Sound | George Dutton | Nominee |