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Magnolia

1999 · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 189 min
24,276 feet · Prominence
755th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw54

Lifetime worldwide gross $48m, re-releases included; about $96m in 2026 money.

Rank3,016 of 11,051In 199963 of 196

How Draw works

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

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 baseAwards35 signal → +4 lift

Oscars2 nominated Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay
Golden Globes1 won Supporting Actor
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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Sight and Sound entry, frogs endlessly cited.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb8 from 342kWikipedia100k views a monthAge27 years

On the listsSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 796 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 54 praise 84 legacy 55averages 64, placing it at24,276 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

▲ Philip Baker Hall

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise20,128 ftJohn C. Reilly19,274 ftJulianne Moore19,139 ftPhilip Seymour Hoffman18,959 ftWilliam H. Macy18,846 ftPhilip Baker Hall18,619 ftAlfred Molina17,658 ftJason Robards17,657 ftPatton Oswalt17,652 ftThomas Jane17,649 ftMelinda Dillon17,645 ftFelicity Huffman17,641 ftLuis Guzmán17,639 ftMiriam Margolyes17,639 ftMichael Murphy17,637 ft