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Eyes Wide Shut

1999 · directed by Stanley Kubrick · 159 min
24,946 feet · Prominence
507th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw66

Lifetime worldwide gross $162m, re-releases included; about $321m in 2026 money.

Rank1,069 of 11,051In 199925 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.

Praise73

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics73 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.

Legacy65

Judged directly: Criterion Kubrick; the masked orgy permanently referenced.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7.5 from 424kWikipedia233k views a monthAge27 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 424 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 66 praise 73 legacy 65averages 68, placing it at24,946 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

▲ Marie Richardson

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tom Cruise20,334 ftNicole Kidman19,585 ftSydney Pollack18,779 ftVinessa Shaw17,910 ftMarie Richardson17,839 ftCate Blanchett17,666 ft