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Jurassic Park

1993 · directed by Steven Spielberg · 127 min
27,840 feet · Prominence
24th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw89

Lifetime worldwide gross $1.06bn, re-releases included; about $2.14bn in 2026 money.

Rank16 of 11,051In 19931 of 199

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.

Critics80 baseAwards37 signal → +4 lift

Oscars3 won Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Editing
BAFTAs1 won Special Visual Effects1 nominated Sound
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.

Legacy90

Judged directly: Jurassic Park reviewed.

Verdict90 of 100IMDb8.2 from 1.2mWikipedia170k views a monthAge33 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 21 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 89 praise 83 legacy 90averages 87, placing it at27,840 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

Jeff Goldblum19,821 ftSam Neill19,536 ftLaura Dern19,394 ftRichard Attenborough18,973 ftJoseph Mazzello18,148 ftBD Wong17,832 ftSamuel L. Jackson17,686 ftGerald R. Molen17,667 ftWayne Knight17,644 ft