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Avatar: The Way of Water

2022 · directed by James Cameron · 192 min
25,807 feet · Prominence
278th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw92

Lifetime worldwide gross $2.33bn, re-releases included; about $2.63bn in 2026 money.

Rank10 of 11,051In 20221 of 231

How Draw works

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

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics72 baseAwards57 signal → +8 lift

Oscars1 won Visual Effects3 nominated Picture, Production Design, Sound
Golden Globes3 nominated Motion Picture, Director, Screenplay
BAFTAs1 won Craft and other
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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Colossal gross, MC67; Avatar's thin-footprint pattern again.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.5 from 601kWikipedia291k views a monthAge4 years

Scored beside it · 452 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 92 praise 80 legacy 62averages 78, placing it at25,807 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

▲ Cliff Curtis

In these careers — elevation for this film

Zoe Saldaña19,318 ftSam Worthington19,248 ftStephen Lang19,029 ftSigourney Weaver18,762 ftKate Winslet18,400 ftCliff Curtis18,184 ftGiovanni Ribisi17,670 ftJemaine Clement17,651 ft