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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990–1996
· TV Show
· 22 min episodes
· 6 seasons
B
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #196
- IMDb #248
- Google retired #50
- Metacritic #207
- RatingGraph #350
- Metacritic Critics #307
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- Metacritic Audience #87
- Criticker #206
- Trakt #216
Every rating
55–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 59, everyone else 80.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.
Details
- Created by
- Andy Borowitz, Susan Borowitz
- Writer
- Jeff Pollack
- Released
- 10 September 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Episodes
- 148 across 6 seasons
- Awards
- 8 wins, 21 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 29 →8 wins from 29 nominations across 23 ceremonies
| Choice TV Show: Throwback 2019 | — | Nominee | |
| Choice TV Show: Throwback 2018 | — | Nominee | |
| Choice TV Show: Throwback 2017 | — | Nominee | |
| Best Broadcast Butler 2004 | — | Joseph Marcell | Nominee |
| Favorite "Fish Out of Water" 2004 | — | Will Smith | Nominee |
| Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series 1997 | — | Tatyana M. Ali | Winner |
| Outstanding Comedy Series 1997 | — | Nominee | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 1997 | — | Will Smith | Nominee |
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Best Foreign Series (Mejor Serie Extranjera)
2 nominations, 1 won
| — | Winner | |
| — | Nominee |
Best New Family Television Comedy Series
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Tatyana M. Ali | Winner |
Best Performance by an Actor Under Ten in a TV Series
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Ross Bagley | Winner |
Best Performance by an Actor Under Ten – Television
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Ross Bagley | Winner |
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Alfonso Ribeiro | Winner |
Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Tatyana M. Ali | Winner |
Top TV
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Quincy Jones Will Smith DJ Jazzy Jeff | Winner |
Choice TV Show: Throwback
3 nominations
| — | Nominee | |
| — | Nominee | |
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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
3 nominations
| — | Daphne Maxwell Reid | Nominee |
| — | Nia Long | Nominee |
| — | Janet Hubert-Whitten | Nominee |
Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical
2 nominations
| — | Will Smith | Nominee |
| — | Will Smith | Nominee |
Best Broadcast Butler
1 nomination
| — | Joseph Marcell | Nominee |
Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Television Series
1 nomination
| — | Larenz Tate | Nominee |
Best Young Actor Guest Starring or Recurring Role in a TV Series
1 nomination
| — | Tevin Campbell | Nominee |
Best Youth Comedienne
1 nomination
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Favorite "Fish Out of Water"
1 nomination
| — | Will Smith | Nominee |
Favorite TV Actress
1 nomination
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Favorite Television Actor
1 nomination
| — | Will Smith | Nominee |
Favorite Television Show
1 nomination
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Outstanding Comedy Series
1 nomination
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Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction for a Comedy Series
1 nomination
| — | Art Busch | Nominee |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
1 nomination
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Outstanding Television Series Actor in a Crossover Role
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