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The Idol
2023
· TV Show
· 60 min episodes
· 1 season
F
MEANRANK
32/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #423
- IMDb #421
- Rotten Tomatoes #313
- Metacritic #381
- RatingGraph #404
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #350
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #309
- Metacritic Critics #353
- Metacritic Audience #380
- Trakt #392
Every rating
17–47
out of 100
Sharply split
Lowest is Metacritic users on 17, highest is RatingGraph on 47. Critics average 22, everyone else 36.
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Details
- Created by
- Abel Tesfaye, Reza Fahim, Sam Levinson
- Studio
- A24, Bron Studios, The Reasonable Bunch, Manic Phase
- Released
- 4 June 2023
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Episodes
- 5 across 1 season
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Primetime Emmy Awards 2024 | Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming | Nina McNeely – Routines: Rehearsal / Music Video Shoot / Dollhouse | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2023 | Queer Palm | Sam Levinson | Nominee |
| Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild 2024 | Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Television Series, Limited, Miniseries, or Movie for Television | Kirsten Sage Coleman, Mandy Artusato, Jessie Bishop, Erin Blinn | Winner |
| Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild 2024 | Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a Television Series, Limited, Miniseries, or Movie for Television | Christopher Fulton, Gloria Conrad, Kamaura Eley, Kya Bilal | Nominee |
| Guild of Music Supervisors Awards 2023 | Best Music Supervision in a Trailer – Series | Scenery Sumandra, Gregory Sweeney – Official Teaser #3 | Nominee |
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Primetime Emmy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming | Nina McNeely – Routines: Rehearsal / Music Video Shoot / Dollhouse | Winner |
Cannes Film Festival
1 nomination
| Queer Palm | Sam Levinson | Nominee |
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Contemporary Make-Up in a Television Series, Limited, Miniseries, or Movie for Television | Kirsten Sage Coleman, Mandy Artusato, Jessie Bishop, Erin Blinn | Winner |
| Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a Television Series, Limited, Miniseries, or Movie for Television | Christopher Fulton, Gloria Conrad, Kamaura Eley, Kya Bilal | Nominee |
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
1 nomination
| Best Music Supervision in a Trailer – Series | Scenery Sumandra, Gregory Sweeney – Official Teaser #3 | Nominee |