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All About My Mother

1999 · directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 101 min
24,650 feet · Prominence
606th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw57

Lifetime worldwide gross $68m, re-releases included; about $135m in 2026 money.

Rank2,365 of 11,051In 199953 of 196

How Draw works

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

Praise94

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics93 baseAwards49 signal → +2 lift

Oscars1 won International Feature Film
BAFTAs1 won Direction1 nominated Screenplay
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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Almodovar's Oscar, world cinema standing.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7.8 from 108kWikipedia8k views a monthAge27 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 910 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 57 praise 94 legacy 52averages 68, placing it at24,650 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

▲ Marisa Paredes▲ Cecilia Roth▲ Antonia San Juan

In these careers — elevation for this film

Cecilia Roth19,157 ftPenélope Cruz18,692 ftMarisa Paredes18,657 ftAntonia San Juan18,326 ftCandela Peña18,324 ftFernando Fernán Gómez17,783 ft