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Airplane!

1980 · directed by Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker and David Zucker · 88 min
26,882 feet · Prominence
99th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Airplane!’ With Bill Simmons and Bill Hader

How this film scores

Draw66

$83m worldwide in 1980 — $334m in today's money.

As released$83mIn 2026 money$334mRank985 of 8,589In 19807 of 75

How Draw works

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

Praise88

Critics 88, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 88.

Critics88 → 44Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy85

Judged directly: Registry comedy, quoted more than almost anything.

Verdict85 of 100IMDb7.7 from 285kWikipedia72k views a monthAge46 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 65 of 3,430 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 66 praise 88 legacy 85averages 80, which places it at26,882 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: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.