1959 · 2h 16m · Adventure, Drama, Mystery
North by Northwest
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
IMDb
8.2
372K votes
Metacritic
98
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Rotten Tomatoes
97%
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Box office
$9.84M
2.3x its $4.3M budget
Released Jul 1, 1959 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Critics (Metacritic)98
Audience (IMDb x 10)82
Critics liked it more than audiences did, by 16 points.
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- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer
- Ernest Lehman
- Music
- Bernard Herrmann
- Cinematography
- Robert Burks
- Editing
- George Tomasini
3 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Film Editing · Academy Awards 1960George Tomasini
- NominatedBest Production Design (Color) · Academy Awards 1960Art Direction: William A. Horning, Robert Boyle, Merrill Pye; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy
- NominatedBest Original Screenplay · Academy Awards 1960Ernest Lehman
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