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Jaws 2

1978 · directed by Jeannot Szwarc · 117 min
22,727 feet · Prominence
1,618th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw78

Lifetime worldwide gross $188m, re-releases included; about $951m in 2026 money.

Rank212 of 11,051In 19783 of 58

How Draw works

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

Praise54

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics54 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.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Immortal tagline, franchise coattails.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb5.8 from 92kWikipedia29k views a monthAge48 years

Scored beside it · 1,446 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 78 praise 54 legacy 45averages 59, placing it at22,727 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

▲ Lorraine Gary▲ Joseph Mascolo

In these careers — elevation for this film

Roy Scheider20,080 ftMurray Hamilton18,195 ftLorraine Gary18,041 ftJoseph Mascolo17,878 ft