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Watchmen
2009
· Movie
· 162 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1721
- IMDb #798
- Google retired #1719
- Rotten Tomatoes #2615
- Metacritic #1946
- Letterboxd #1520
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3080
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2459
- Metacritic Critics #2798
- Metacritic Audience #582
- Criticker #1196
- Douban #250
- Kinopoisk #840
- AlloCiné #828
- Trakt #764
Every rating
55–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Douban on 86. Critics average 60, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In an alternate 1985 where masked vigilantes are part of history, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero pulls a group of retired crimefighters out of retirement. Their investigation uncovers a vast and deadly conspiracy with roots in their past, a plot that threatens to plunge the world into nuclear war and change the course of history forever.
Details
- Director
- Zack Snyder
- Writers
- Alex Tse, David Hayter
- Based on
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Released
- 4 March 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $130.0M
- Box office
- $185.3M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 17 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Best Superhero | Jackie Earle Haley | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Best Comic Book Movie | Winner | |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Holy Sh!t! Scene of the Year | The Destruction of Manhattan | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Fight Scene of the Year | Ozymandias v. The Comedian | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Most Memorable Mutilation | Arms Cut off by Rotary Saw | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Best Superhero | Malin Åkerman | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Best Superhero | Billy Crudup | Nominee |
| 2009 Scream Awards 2009 | Best Fantasy Film | Nominee |
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21 awards — Watchmen
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36th Saturn Awards
7 nominations, 3 won
| Best Costume | Michael Wilkinson | Winner |
| Best Fantasy Film | Winner | |
| Best Special Edition DVD Release | Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut | Winner |
| Best Director | Zack Snyder | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Nominee | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Malin Åkerman | Nominee |
| Best Writing | Alex Tse and David Hayter | Nominee |
2009 Scream Awards
13 nominations, 1 won
| Best Comic Book Movie | Winner | |
| Best Ensemble | Nominee | |
| Best F/X | Nominee | |
| Best Fantasy Film | Nominee | |
| Best Superhero | Jackie Earle Haley | Nominee |
| Best Superhero | Malin Åkerman | Nominee |
| Best Superhero | Billy Crudup | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Carla Gugino | Nominee |
| Breakout Performance-Female | Malin Åkerman | Nominee |
| Fight Scene of the Year | Ozymandias v. The Comedian | Nominee |
| Holy Sh!t! Scene of the Year | The Destruction of Manhattan | Nominee |
| Most Memorable Mutilation | Arms Cut off by Rotary Saw | Nominee |
| Scream Song of the Year | " Desolation Row " by My Chemical Romance | Nominee |
2009 VES Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Doctor Manhattan | Nominee |