1946 · 2h 10m · Drama, Family, Fantasy
It's a Wonderful Life
Directed byFrank Capra
IMDb
8.6
561K votes
Metacritic
89
critics
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
critics
Box office
$8.22M
2.6x its $3.18M budget
Released Dec 20, 1946 by Liberty Films and RKO Pictures
Your rating
Rate
Same 100 point scale
Critics vs the crowd
Critics (Metacritic)89
Audience (IMDb x 10)86
Critics and audiences agree on this one.
Top billed
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Music
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Cinematography
- Joseph F. BirocJoseph Walker
- Editing
- William Hornbeck
- Producers
- Frank Capra
5 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Actor · Academy Awards 1947James Stewart
- NominatedBest Picture · Academy Awards 1947Liberty Films
- NominatedBest Director · Academy Awards 1947Frank Capra
- NominatedBest Sound · Academy Awards 1947RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
- NominatedBest Film Editing · Academy Awards 1947William Hornbeck
Takes
On It's a Wonderful Life
More from Frank Capra
Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission. Critic scores and money from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).