Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1967 · directed by Stanley Kramer · 108 min

26,390 feet · Prominence

185th of 24,106 films scored

Not coveredThe 185th highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw72

Lifetime worldwide gross $57m, re-releases included; about $560m in 2026 money.

Rank514 of 11,051In 19675 of 38

How Draw works

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

Praise83

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics67 baseAwards97 signal → +16 lift

Oscars2 won Actress, Original Screenplay8 nominated Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Production Design, Film Editing, Adaptation or Treatment

Golden Globes4 nominated Best Picture, Lead acting, Supporting acting, Screenplay

BAFTAs2 won Actor, Lead acting1 nominated Screenplay

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.

Legacy76

Judged directly: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner reviewed.

Verdict76 of 100IMDb7.8 from 52kWikipedia21k views a monthAge59 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryAFI 100evidence, not an input to the score

Scored beside it · 190 of 4,039 films judged

76Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

76Amadeus (1984)

76Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

76They Live (1988)

76Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

75Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

75Men in Black (1997)

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 72 praise 83 legacy 76averages 77, placing it at26,390 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

▲ Katharine Hepburn ▲ Spencer Tracy ▲ Beah Richards ▲ Katharine Houghton

In these careers — elevation for this film

Katharine Hepburn20,671 ft Spencer Tracy20,671 ft Sidney Poitier20,292 ft Beah Richards18,197 ft Katharine Houghton18,115 ft