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Overview
Review
Cast
Production Credits
Awards
The Graduate
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Year
Run Time
1967
106 min.
Work Rating
Attributes
High Historical Importance
High Artistic Quality
Countries
MPAA Rating
USA
PG
Category
Color Type
Feature
Color
Director
Mike Nichols
Genres
Comedy Drama
Types
Coming-of-Age
Sex Comedy
Comedy of Manners
Flags
Sexual Situations
Not For Children
Adult Language
Adult Situations
Keywords
extramarital-affair
bus
daughter
generation-gap
graduation
love-triangle
mother
promiscuity
sex
wedding
swimming-pool
coming-of-age
May-December-romance
plastic
Themes
Love Triangles
Sexual Awakening
Age Disparity Romance
Suburban Dysfunction
Generation Gap
Dropping Out
Existential Crisis
Forbidden Love
Infidelity
Tones
Satirical
Deadpan
Irreverent
Quirky
Stylish
Racy
Moods
Comedy on the Edge
Cinematic Process
Panavision
Box office
$104,397,102
Produced by
Avco Embassy Pictures
Released by
Embassy Pictures
AMG Work ID
V 20431
Corrections to this Entry?
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
N
Best Actor
Dustin Hoffman
1967
N
Best Actress
Anne Bancroft
1967
N
Best Adapted Screenplay
Calder Willingham
,
Buck Henry
1967
N
Best Cinematography
Robert Surtees
1967
W
Best Director
Mike Nichols
1967
N
Best Picture
1967
N
Best Supporting Actress
Katharine Ross
1967
American Film Institute
W
100 Greatest American Movies
1998
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
W
Best Director
Mike Nichols
1968
W
Best Editing
Sam O'Steen
1968
W
Best Picture
1968
W
Best Screenplay
Calder Willingham
,
Buck Henry
1968
W
Most Promising Newcomer
Dustin Hoffman
1968
Directors Guild of America
W
Best Director
Mike Nichols
1967
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
W
Best Director
Mike Nichols
1967
N
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Dustin Hoffman
1967
W
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Anne Bancroft
1967
W
Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
1967
N
Best Screenplay
Buck Henry
,
Calder Willingham
1967
W
New Star of the Year - Female
Katharine Ross
1967
W
New Star of the Year - Male
Dustin Hoffman
1967
Library of Congress
W
U.S. National Film Registry
1996
National Board of Review
N
Best Picture
1967
New York Film Critics Circle
W
Best Director
Mike Nichols
1967