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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

1983 · directed by Robert M. Young · 106 min
22,526 feet · Prominence
1,945th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw30

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $3m in 2026 money.

Rank8,521 of 11,051In 198397 of 101

How Draw works

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

Praise100

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics100 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. 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.

Legacy34

Not judged yet, so Legacy falls back to footprint: how many still rate it, how highly, and for how long.

IMDb7 from 1kWikipedia1k views a monthAge43 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
How Legacy works

Canon list membership, reach (Wikipedia traffic above IMDb votes) and time served. Every signal behind it keeps updating, which is what separates Legacy from Praise.

draw 30 praise 100 legacy 34averages 55, placing it at22,526 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

Edward James Olmos19,237 ftJames Gammon18,021 ftBruce McGill17,998 ftTom Bower17,880 ftNed Beatty17,632 ftRosanna DeSoto17,625 ftJack Kehoe17,624 ft