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The Big Lebowski

1998 · directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · 117 min
25,956 feet · Prominence
252nd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw54

Lifetime worldwide gross $47m, re-releases included; about $95m in 2026 money.

Rank3,032 of 11,051In 199862 of 198

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics75 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. 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 · 109 of 4,039 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, placing it at25,956 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 Bridges20,314 ftJohn Goodman19,943 ftSteve Buscemi18,387 ftJulianne Moore18,260 ftPhilip Seymour Hoffman17,858 ftJohn Turturro17,660 ftSam Elliott17,653 ftDavid Thewlis17,651 ftBen Gazzara17,648 ftPeter Stormare17,642 ft