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When Marnie Was There
2014
· Movie
· 103 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #109
- IMDb #133
- Google retired #56
- Rotten Tomatoes #100
- Metacritic #124
- Letterboxd #128
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #128
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #113
- Metacritic Critics #143
- Metacritic Audience #113
- Criticker #71
- Douban #122
- Kinopoisk #106
- AlloCiné #61
- Trakt #61
Every rating
61–96
out of 100
A lonely, asthmatic young girl is sent to the countryside for the summer to improve her health. There, she becomes fascinated with an abandoned mansion and befriends a mysterious blonde girl named Marnie who appears there. They form a deep and secret friendship, but Marnie is only seen at certain times, leading to a mystery about her true identity and their connection.
Details
- Director
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Writers
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando
- Released
- 19 July 2014
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- PG
- Box office
- $34.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 7 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 8 →1 win from 8 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2016 | Best Animated Feature | Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2016 | Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2016 | Writing in a Feature Production | Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando and Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2016 | Best Animated Feature – Independent | Nominee | |
| Saturn Awards 2016 | Best Animated Film | Nominee | |
| Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2015 | Best Animated Feature Film | Nominee | |
| Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2015 | Best Animated Feature Film | Winner | |
| Japan Academy Prize 2015 | Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura | Nominee |
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature Film | Winner |
Annie Awards
3 nominations
| Best Animated Feature – Independent | Nominee | |
| Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Nominee |
| Writing in a Feature Production | Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando and Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Nominee |
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature Film | Nominee |
Japan Academy Prize
1 nomination
| Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Nominee |