Directing · Writing · age 59

Kevin Macdonald

Best rated: Touching the Void (7.9)

Films: 18
Avg rating: 7.03
Peak run: 1999’11
7+ run: 5 films

Films: 18
Avg rating: 7.03
Peak run: 1999’11
7+ run: 5 films

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The career

Kevin Macdonald, directing career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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199918 films2026

Current formLast 5: 6.66 vs career 7.03 (−0.37)

As a director, films with 1,000+ votes

Kevin by the numbers

Average

7.03

15 rated films

Vote weighted

7.02

bigger films count more

Median

7.3

half are better

Consistency

±0.95

rating spread

Career

28y

1999 to 2026

Total votes

720K

across every film

Best

7.9

Touching the Void

Worst

4.2

The Runner

Newest first

Filmography

Directing filmography

2026	The Runner	4.2	23,178
2024	Klitschko: More Than a Fight	·	561
2024	One to One: John & Yoko	7.2	1,823
2023	High & Low - John Galliano	7.1	1,538
2021	Life in a Day 2020	·	844
2021	The Mauritanian	7.5	72,970
2018	Whitney	7.3	8,396
2016	Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang	7.3	1,748
2014	Black Sea	6.4	43,400
2013	How I Live Now	6.4	33,965
2012	Marley	7.9	15,057
2011	The Eagle	6.2	78,284
2011	Life in a Day	7.6	15,801
2009	State of Play	7.1	168K
2007	My Enemy's Enemy	·	711
2006	The Last King of Scotland	7.6	208K
2003	Touching the Void	7.9	40,096
1999	One Day in September	7.8	6,771

Better together?

Kevin Macdonald's regulars

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

On Kevin Macdonald

1 nominations, 1 wins

Awards record

Best Documentary Feature · Academy Awards 2000
Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
Won

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