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A Special Day

1977 · directed by Ettore Scola · 106 min
22,701 feet · Prominence
1,664th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

How Draw works

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

Praise100

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics100 baseAwards46 signal → +0 lift

Oscars2 nominated Actor, International Feature Film
Golden Globes1 won Non-English Language Film1 nominated Lead acting
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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Criterion, Loren-Mastroianni, quiet endurance.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb8.1 from 18kWikipedia5k views a monthAge49 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,237 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 0 praise 100 legacy 48averages 49, placing it at22,701 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

Marcello Mastroianni18,602 ftSophia Loren18,515 ftJohn Vernon17,772 ft