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Wild at Heart
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1998
- IMDb #1718
- Rotten Tomatoes #2147
- Metacritic #2686
- Letterboxd #727
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3016
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1557
- Metacritic Critics #3267
- Metacritic Audience #1567
- Criticker #798
- Douban #1254
- Kinopoisk #2154
- AlloCiné #1445
- Trakt #2429
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 52, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 59, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two lovers, Sailor and Lula, go on the run from the law after he is paroled from prison for manslaughter. They are pursued by Lula's domineering mother, who has hired a gang of criminals to kill Sailor. Their journey across the American South is a surreal and violent odyssey filled with bizarre characters, car crashes, and their own passionate, obsessive love for each other.
Details
- Director
- David Lynch
- Writer
- David Lynch
- Based on
- Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford
- Released
- 17 August 1990
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.5M
- Box office
- $14.6M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 12 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 17 →2 major awards won · 5 wins from 17 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 1990 | Palme d'Or | David Lynch | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 1990 | Best Cinematography | Frederick Elmes | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actress | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Male | Willem Dafoe | Nominee |
| 20/20 Awards 1990 | Best Original Score | Angelo Badalamenti | Nominee |
| 20/20 Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actor | Willem Dafoe | Nominee |
| 20/20 Awards 1990 | Best Supporting Actress | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
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17 awards — Wild at Heart
×| Best Cinematography | Frederick Elmes | Winner |
| Best Supporting Male | Willem Dafoe | Nominee |
| Palme d'Or | David Lynch | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
| Worst Foreign Casting | Diane Ladd (also for Rambling Rose ) | Winner |
| Worst Foreign Director | David Lynch | Winner |
| Best Video from a Film | Chris Isaak —" Wicked Game " | Winner |
| Best Original Score | Angelo Badalamenti | Nominee |
| Best Sound Design | Nominee | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Willem Dafoe | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Diane Ladd | Nominee |
| Grand Prix | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Randy Thom, Richard Hymns, Jon Huck and David Parker | Nominee |
| Best Film | David Lynch | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Director | David Lynch | Nominee |
| Bronze Horse | David Lynch | Nominee |