No Country for Old Men

2007 · directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen · 122 min

26,993 feet · Prominence

86th of 15,261 films scored

The Rewatchables‘No Country for Old Men’ With Bill Simmons, Bill Hader, and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw64

$172m worldwide in 2007 — $273m in today's money.

As released$172mIn 2026 money$273mRank1,222 of 8,589In 200729 of 245

How Draw works

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

Praise96

Critics 93, awards 97. Half each, so Praise lands at 96.

Critics93 → 46Awards97 → 48

Oscars4 won Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay4 nominated Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Editing

Golden Globes2 won Supporting Actor, Screenplay2 nominated Motion Picture, Director

BAFTAs3 won Direction, Actor, Cinematography3 nominated Film, Adapted Screenplay, Editing

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.

Legacy82

Judged directly: Chigurh is a permanent screen villain.

Verdict82 of 100IMDb8.2 from 1.2mWikipedia188k views a monthAge19 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score

Scored beside it · 95 of 3,430 films judged

82The Little Mermaid (1989)

82The Jungle Book (1967)

82The Social Network (2010)

82Night of the Living Dead (1968)

82Batman (1989)

82Braveheart (1995)

82No Country for Old Men (2007)

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 64 praise 96 legacy 82averages 81, which places it at26,993 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson.