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Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009 · directed by Wes Anderson · 87 min
24,537 feet · Prominence
612nd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw52

$46m worldwide in 2009 — $71m in today's money.

As released$46mIn 2026 money$71mRank3,204 of 8,589In 200979 of 222

How Draw works

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

Praise89

Critics 88, awards 23. Half each, so Praise lands at 89.

Critics88 → 44Awards23 → 12

Oscars2 nominated Animated Feature, 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Criterion Anderson; cuss entered fan vocabulary.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb7.9 from 297kWikipedia51k views a monthAge17 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 648 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 52 praise 89 legacy 55averages 65, which places it at24,537 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

George Clooney21,908 ftMeryl Streep21,738 ftBill Murray21,597 ftWillem Dafoe21,594 ft