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Zodiac

2007 · directed by David Fincher · 157 min
24,814 feet · Prominence
550th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw57

Lifetime worldwide gross $85m, re-releases included; about $135m in 2026 money.

Rank2,359 of 11,051In 200762 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.

Praise85

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics85 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.

Legacy60

Judged directly: Grown into a Fincher canonical favorite.

Verdict60 of 100IMDb7.7 from 672kWikipedia85k views a monthAge19 years

Scored beside it · 570 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 57 praise 85 legacy 60averages 67, placing it at24,814 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

Jake Gyllenhaal20,049 ftMark Ruffalo19,468 ftRobert Downey Jr19,073 ftAnthony Edwards18,359 ftJohn Carroll Lynch18,244 ftChloë Sevigny18,125 ftElias Koteas17,988 ftBrian Cox17,924 ftDermot Mulroney17,653 ftIone Skye17,650 ftPhilip Baker Hall17,645 ftJohn Getz17,641 ftCandy Clark17,638 ftJames Le Gros17,637 ftCharles Fleischer17,629 ft