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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
· Movie
· 131 min
A
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #315
- IMDb #355
- Google retired #1305
- Rotten Tomatoes #263
- Metacritic #703
- Letterboxd #148
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #352
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #553
- Metacritic Critics #1067
- Metacritic Audience #367
- Criticker #99
- Kinopoisk #644
- AlloCiné #503
- Trakt #1127
Every rating
74–96
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A bitter, aging academic and his wife return from a faculty party and begin a relentless verbal battle. Their night of heavy drinking is joined by a young, unsuspecting couple. The hosts proceed to manipulate and torment their guests, using them as pawns in their vicious psychological games. The evening descends into a harrowing expose of their fractured marriage, built on illusions, private pain, and the destructive stories they tell each other to survive.
Details
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Writer
- Ernest Lehman
- Released
- 22 June 1966
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Latin, Spanish
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $7.5M
- Box office
- $33.7M
- Awards
- 20 wins, 23 nominations
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 43 →6 major awards won · 20 wins from 43 nominations across 15 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Supporting Actress | Sandy Dennis | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Art Direction: Richard Sylbert ; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Haskell Wexler | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Costume Design – Black-and-White | Irene Sharaff | Winner |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1966 | Best Written American Drama | Ernest Lehman | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Picture | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1966 | Best Director | Mike Nichols | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Academy Awards
13 nominations, 5 won
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Best Art Direction – Black-and-White | Art Direction: Richard Sylbert ; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Winner |
| Best Cinematography – Black-and-White | Haskell Wexler | Winner |
| Best Costume Design – Black-and-White | Irene Sharaff | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sandy Dennis | Winner |
| Best Actor | Richard Burton | Nominee |
| Best Director | Mike Nichols | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Sam O'Steen | Nominee |
| Best Original Music Score | Alex North | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| Best Sound | George Groves | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | George Segal | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Written American Drama | Ernest Lehman | Winner |
Golden Globe Awards
7 nominations
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Richard Burton | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Elizabeth Taylor | Nominee |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Mike Nichols | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Ernest Lehman | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | George Segal | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Sandy Dennis | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Mike Nichols | Nominee |
Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show | Alex North | Nominee |
Laurel Awards
5 nominations, 4 won
| Top Drama | Winner | |
| Top Female Dramatic Performance | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Top Female Supporting Performance | Sandy Dennis | Winner |
| Top Male Dramatic Performance | Richard Burton | Winner |
| Top Male Supporting Performance | George Segal | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best British Actor | Richard Burton | Winner |
| Best British Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Best Film | Mike Nichols | Winner |
Bambi Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actor – International | Richard Burton | Winner |
| Best Actress – International | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Best Actor | Richard Burton | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Best Film | Nominee |
National Board of Review Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |
Online Film & Television Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |
American Cinema Editors Awards
1 nomination
| Best Edited Feature Film | Sam O'Steen | Nominee |
National Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination
| Best Film | Nominee |