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The Great Beauty

2013 · directed by Paolo Sorrentino · 142 min
22,710 feet · Prominence
1,645th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw46

Lifetime worldwide gross $25m, re-releases included; about $35m in 2026 money.

Rank4,952 of 11,051In 2013134 of 320

How Draw works

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

Praise91

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics89 baseAwards46 signal → +3 lift

Oscars1 won International Feature Film
Golden Globes1 won Non-English Language Film
BAFTAs1 won Film Not in the English Language
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.

Legacy35

Judged directly: Foreign Oscar winner, cinephile regard.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb7.7 from 104kWikipedia14k views a monthAge13 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 2,061 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 46 praise 91 legacy 35averages 57, placing it at22,710 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

Vernon Dobtcheff17,621 ft