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Contagion

2011 · directed by Steven Soderbergh · 106 min
24,398 feet · Prominence
654th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

$138m worldwide in 2011 — $202m in today's money.

As released$138mIn 2026 money$202mRank1,639 of 8,589In 201156 of 242

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

Critics 77, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 77.

Critics77 → 39Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. 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 · 654 of 3,430 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, which places it at24,398 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 Damon22,140 ftKate Winslet21,648 ft