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Contagion

2011 · directed by Steven Soderbergh · 106 min
24,211 feet · Prominence
780th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $138m, re-releases included; about $202m in 2026 money.

Rank1,717 of 11,051In 201159 of 304

How Draw works

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

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Pandemic resurgence made it eerily canonical.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb6.8 from 330kWikipedia42k views a monthAge15 years

Scored beside it · 801 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 61 praise 77 legacy 55averages 64, placing it at24,211 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

Matt Damon19,285 ftLaurence Fishburne18,850 ftKate Winslet18,753 ftJude Law18,725 ftMarion Cotillard18,332 ftJennifer Ehle18,246 ftGwyneth Paltrow18,153 ftBryan Cranston18,064 ftJohn Hawkes17,655 ftSanaa Lathan17,653 ftElliott Gould17,646 ft