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You Were Never Really Here
2017
· Movie
· 89 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2569
- IMDb #2846
- Google retired #3714
- Rotten Tomatoes #1943
- Metacritic #673
- Letterboxd #1559
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1094
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3092
- Metacritic Critics #439
- Metacritic Audience #1514
- Criticker #1158
- Douban #1766
- Kinopoisk #3898
- AlloCiné #3615
- Trakt #3711
Every rating
56–89
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 86, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A traumatized and brutal vigilante specializes in rescuing missing girls. He is hired to save a state senator's young daughter from a trafficking ring. His mission, which should be straightforward, rapidly spirals into a nightmarish conspiracy of corruption and violence. He must navigate a world of profound darkness, using his hammer and his fractured psyche to exact vengeance while protecting the girl.
Details
- Director
- Lynne Ramsay
- Writer
- Lynne Ramsay
- Based on
- You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
- Released
- 8 November 2017
- Country
- United Kingdom, France
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Box office
- $9.4M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 12 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 18 →3 major awards won · 6 wins from 18 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best Editing | Joe Bini | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2017 | Best Actor | Joaquin Phoenix | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2017 | Best Screenplay | Lynne Ramsay | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best Director | Lynne Ramsay | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best Male Lead | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best Feature | Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, Rebecca O’Brien, Lynne Ramsay and James Wilson | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2017 | Palme d'Or | You Were Never Really Here | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2019 | Outstanding British Film | Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, and James Wilson | Nominee |
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Cannes Film Festival
3 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actor | Joaquin Phoenix | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Lynne Ramsay | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | You Were Never Really Here | Nominee |
Independent Spirit Awards
4 nominations, 1 won
| Best Editing | Joe Bini | Winner |
| Best Director | Lynne Ramsay | Nominee |
| Best Feature | Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, Rebecca O’Brien, Lynne Ramsay and James Wilson | Nominee |
| Best Male Lead | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominee |
British Independent Film Awards
8 nominations, 2 won
| Best Music | Jonny Greenwood | Winner |
| Best Sound | You Were Never Really Here | Winner |
| Best Actor | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominee |
| Best British Independent Film | Lynne Ramsay, Pascal Caucheteux, Rosa Attab, James Wilson and Rebecca O’Brien | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Thomas Townend | Nominee |
| Best Director | Lynne Ramsay | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Joe Bini | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Lynne Ramsay | Nominee |
Noir Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Special Jury Award | Lynne Ramsay | Winner |
| Black Lion | You Were Never Really Here | Nominee |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding British Film | Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, and James Wilson | Nominee |