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Best in Show

2000 · directed by Christopher Guest · 91 min · PG-13
23,206 feet · Prominence
1,281st of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

How Draw works

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

Praise86

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics86 baseAwards12 signal → +1 lift

Golden Globes1 nominated Best Picture
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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Beloved mockumentary, endlessly quoted by comedians.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.5 from 74kWikipedia34k views a monthAge26 years

Scored beside it · 540 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 0 praise 86 legacy 62averages 49, placing it at23,206 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

Christopher Guest18,297 ftEugene Levy18,111 ftJane Lynch17,942 ftMichael McKean17,929 ftBob Balaban17,764 ftParker Posey17,621 ftCatherine O'Hara17,619 ftFred Willard17,611 ft