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Where the Crawdads Sing
2022
· Movie
· 125 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2564
- IMDb #1692
- Google retired #572
- Rotten Tomatoes #2813
- Metacritic #3536
- Letterboxd #2643
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4532
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #54
- Metacritic Critics #4004
- Metacritic Audience #2324
- Criticker #2297
- Douban #1031
- Kinopoisk #1771
- AlloCiné #683
- Trakt #616
Every rating
34–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 34, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 96. Critics average 38, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Abandoned by her family, a young girl named Kya raises herself alone in the marshes of North Carolina. She is known as "Marsh Girl" to the nearby townspeople, who shun her. When a popular local man is found dead, she becomes the prime suspect. The story unfolds between her isolated coming-of-age, her tentative experiences with love and connection, and the murder trial that threatens the solitary life she has built for herself.
Details
- Director
- Olivia Newman
- Writer
- Lucy Alibar
- Based on
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Released
- 14 July 2022
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $24.0M
- Box office
- $144.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 13 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →1 win from 14 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2023 | Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Awards 2023 | Best Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 2023 | Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| Grammy Awards 2023 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| Georgia Film Critics Association 2023 | Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| Guild of Music Supervisors Awards 2023 | Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
| London Film Critics Circle Awards 2023 | British/Irish Actor of the Year | Harris Dickinson (also for See How They Run and Triangle of Sadness ) | Nominee |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards 2023 | Best Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Winner |
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Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Awards
1 nomination
| Best Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Song Written for Visual Media | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Winner |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards
2 nominations
| Original Score – Feature Film | Mychael Danna | Nominee |
| Original Song – Feature Film | " Carolina " – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Georgia Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
1 nomination
| Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
London Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination
| British/Irish Actor of the Year | Harris Dickinson (also for See How They Run and Triangle of Sadness ) | Nominee |
People's Choice Awards
1 nomination
| The Drama Movie of 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Nominee |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |
World Soundtrack Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | "Carolina" – Taylor Swift | Nominee |