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The Shining

1980 · directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min
27,096 feet · Prominence
81st of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw60

Lifetime worldwide gross $50m, re-releases included; about $201m in 2026 money.

Rank1,721 of 11,051In 198016 of 84

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics76 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.

Legacy95

Judged directly: Endlessly referenced horror, iconic imagery.

Verdict95 of 100IMDb8.4 from 1.2mWikipedia149k views a monthAge46 years

On the listsNational Film RegistrySight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 7 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 60 praise 76 legacy 95averages 77, placing it at27,096 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

▲ Shelley Duvall▲ Scatman Crothers▲ Danny Lloyd

In these careers — elevation for this film

Jack Nicholson20,233 ftShelley Duvall19,631 ftScatman Crothers18,209 ftDanny Lloyd18,029 ftBarry Dennen17,625 ft