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Taxi Driver

1976 · directed by Martin Scorsese · 114 min
27,289 feet · Prominence
63rd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Taxi Driver’ With Bill Simmons, Bill Hader, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw59

$29m worldwide in 1976 — $166m in today's money.

As released$29mIn 2026 money$166mRank1,896 of 8,589In 197616 of 44

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise94

Critics 92, awards 48. Half each, so Praise lands at 94.

Critics92 → 46Awards48 → 24

Oscars4 nominated Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Score
How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy93

Judged directly: One of the most quoted performances ever made.

Verdict93 of 100IMDb8.2 from 1.0mWikipedia98k views a monthAge50 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryAFI 100Sight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 10 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 59 praise 94 legacy 93averages 82, which places it at27,289 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Robert De Niro22,688 ftJodie Foster21,963 ft