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Altered Carbon
2018–2020
· TV Show
· 60 min episodes
· 2 seasons
C
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #354
- IMDb #247
- Rotten Tomatoes #268
- Metacritic #258
- RatingGraph #353
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #291
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #278
- Metacritic Critics #272
- Metacritic Audience #259
- Criticker #241
- Trakt #259
Every rating
52–79
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is IMDb on 79.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.
Details
- Created by
- Laeta Kalogridis
- Based on
- Altered Carbon by Q254635
- Released
- 2 February 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish, Arabic, German
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Episodes
- 18 across 2 seasons
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 win from 6 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2018 | Outstanding Main Title Design | Lisa Bolan, Thomas McMahan, Yongsub Song, Byron Slaybaugh, Carlo Sa, Mert Kizilay | Nominee |
| 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2018 | Outstanding Special Visual Effects | Everett Burrell, Tony Meagher, Joel Whist, Jorge Del Valle, Steve Moncur, Christine Lemon, Paul Jones, Antoine Moulineau, David Zaretti for "Out of the Past" | Nominee |
| 17th Visual Effects Society Awards 2019 | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Everett Burrell, Tony Meagher, Steve Moncur, Christine Lemon, Joel Whist for "Out of the Past" | Nominee |
| 17th Visual Effects Society Awards 2019 | Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Philipp Kratzer, Daniel Fernandez, Xavier Lestourneaud, Andrea Rosa | Winner |
| 17th Visual Effects Society Awards 2019 | Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode | Jean-François Leroux, Reece Sanders, Stephen Bennett, Laraib Atta | Nominee |
| 44th Saturn Awards 2018 | Best New Media Television Series | Altered Carbon | Nominee |
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70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Main Title Design | Lisa Bolan, Thomas McMahan, Yongsub Song, Byron Slaybaugh, Carlo Sa, Mert Kizilay | Nominee |
| Outstanding Special Visual Effects | Everett Burrell, Tony Meagher, Joel Whist, Jorge Del Valle, Steve Moncur, Christine Lemon, Paul Jones, Antoine Moulineau, David Zaretti for "Out of the Past" | Nominee |
17th Visual Effects Society Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Philipp Kratzer, Daniel Fernandez, Xavier Lestourneaud, Andrea Rosa | Winner |
| Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode | Jean-François Leroux, Reece Sanders, Stephen Bennett, Laraib Atta | Nominee |
| Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Everett Burrell, Tony Meagher, Steve Moncur, Christine Lemon, Joel Whist for "Out of the Past" | Nominee |
44th Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best New Media Television Series | Altered Carbon | Nominee |