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Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984 · directed by Michael Radford · 113 min
22,759 feet · Prominence
1,382nd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw44

$8m worldwide in 1984 — $27m in today's money.

As released$8mIn 2026 money$27mRank4,763 of 8,589In 198465 of 93

How Draw works

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

Praise72

Critics 72, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 72.

Critics72 → 36Awards0 → 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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Definitive Orwell imagery, invoked politically.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7 from 87kWikipedia28k views a monthAge42 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 925 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 44 praise 72 legacy 48averages 55, which places it at22,759 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: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack.