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Sid and Nancy

1986 · directed by Alex Cox · 114 min
24,114 feet · Prominence
823rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw37

Lifetime worldwide gross $3m, re-releases included; about $9m in 2026 money.

Rank7,203 of 11,051In 1986112 of 141

How Draw works

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

Praise82

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics82 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.

Legacy61

Judged directly: Criterion punk touchstone, enduring subculture status.

Verdict61 of 100IMDb7 from 36kWikipedia14k views a monthAge40 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 545 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 37 praise 82 legacy 61averages 60, placing it at24,114 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

▲ Debby Bishop

In these careers — elevation for this film

Gary Oldman19,801 ftChloe Webb18,901 ftDavid Hayman17,941 ftXander Berkeley17,757 ftDebby Bishop17,753 ft