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Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984 · directed by Michael Radford · 113 min
22,745 feet · Prominence
1,588th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw44

Lifetime worldwide gross $8m, re-releases included; about $27m in 2026 money.

Rank5,447 of 11,051In 198474 of 112

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics72 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.

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 · 1,235 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 44 praise 72 legacy 48averages 55, placing it at22,745 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

John Hurt19,809 ftRichard Burton18,979 ftCyril Cusack17,888 ftPhyllis Logan17,626 ft