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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016 · directed by David Yates · 133 min
24,063 feet · Prominence
847th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw80

Lifetime worldwide gross $809m, re-releases included; about $1.11bn in 2026 money.

Rank144 of 11,051In 20168 of 335

How Draw works

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

Praise73

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 baseAwards23 signal → +3 lift

Oscars1 won Costume Design1 nominated Production Design
BAFTAs1 won Production Design1 nominated Craft and other
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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: 66th pct; the franchise collapsed after it.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.2 from 538kWikipedia48k views a monthAge10 years

Scored beside it · 1,148 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 80 praise 73 legacy 48averages 67, placing it at24,063 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

▲ Katherine Waterston

In these careers — elevation for this film

Eddie Redmayne19,679 ftColin Farrell19,010 ftKatherine Waterston18,763 ftDan Fogler18,730 ftAlison Sudol17,962 ftJohnny Depp17,958 ftJon Voight17,924 ftRon Perlman17,830 ftSamantha Morton17,659 ftZoë Kravitz17,659 ftDan Hedaya17,657 ftEzra Miller17,652 ftCarmen Ejogo17,651 ftGemma Chan17,649 ftWunmi Mosaku17,642 ft