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Blood Diamond

2006 · directed by Edward Zwick · 143 min
24,301 feet · Prominence
739th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw64

Lifetime worldwide gross $172m, re-releases included; about $281m in 2026 money.

Rank1,228 of 11,051In 200626 of 303

How Draw works

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

Praise72

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics64 baseAwards46 signal → +8 lift

Oscars5 nominated Actor, Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Editing
Golden Globes1 nominated Actor
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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: 'Blood diamond' entered vocabulary.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb8 from 625kWikipedia1k views a monthAge20 years

Scored beside it · 678 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 64 praise 72 legacy 58averages 65, placing it at24,301 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Djimon Hounsou▲ Kagiso Kuypers

In these careers — elevation for this film

Leonardo DiCaprio20,299 ftDjimon Hounsou20,075 ftJennifer Connelly18,704 ftArnold Vosloo17,894 ftKagiso Kuypers17,889 ftMichael Sheen17,659 ftMarius Weyers17,626 ft