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The Big Lebowski

1998 · directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · 117 min
25,637 feet · Prominence
319th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'The Big Lebowski' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Jason Concepcion, and David Shoemaker

How this film scores

Draw54

$47m worldwide in 1998 — $95m in today's money.

As released$47mIn 2026 money$95mRank2,779 of 8,589In 199859 of 165

How Draw works

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

Praise75

Critics 75, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 75.

Critics75 → 38Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

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.

Legacy82

Judged directly: Registry; Dudeism, festivals, endlessly quoted.

Verdict82 of 100IMDb8.1 from 912kWikipedia85k views a monthAge28 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 108 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 54 praise 75 legacy 82averages 70, which places it at25,637 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

Jeff Bridges22,225 ftJulianne Moore21,795 ftPhilip Seymour Hoffman21,632 ft