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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971
· Movie
· 100 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #880
- IMDb #557
- Google retired #1062
- Rotten Tomatoes #1027
- Metacritic #1287
- Letterboxd #1227
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1657
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #854
- Metacritic Critics #1782
- Metacritic Audience #654
- Douban #880
- Kinopoisk #1550
- AlloCiné #2028
- Trakt #444
Every rating
67–90
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 67, highest is Google on 90.
See the most agreed on films →The enigmatic candy maker Willy Wonka hides five Golden Tickets inside his chocolate bars, granting the finders a tour of his secretive factory and a lifetime supply of candy. A poor, honest boy finds the final ticket and joins the other children on a bizarre and magical tour where each child's character is tested in strange ways.
Details
- Director
- Mel Stuart
- Writers
- Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Roald Dahl
- Based on
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Studio
- Wolper Pictures
- Released
- 29 June 1971
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French, German, Italian
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $2.4M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →2 wins from 5 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1971 | Best Music: Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score | Adapted by Walter Scharf ; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1971 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Gene Wilder | Nominee |
| National Film Preservation Board 1971 | National Film Registry | Winner | |
| Online Film & Television Association Awards 1971 | Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner | |
| Saturn Awards 1971 | Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release | The 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Music: Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score | Adapted by Walter Scharf ; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Gene Wilder | Nominee |
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 |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release | The 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition | Nominee |