Film 09 / 13 · Directed by Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014)
Interstellar is Christopher Nolan's 2014 space epic, written with his brother Jonathan. Matthew McConaughey plays a former pilot who leaves his children on a dying Earth to look for a new home for humanity beyond a wormhole. It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and took more than $780 million worldwide.
In the near future, blight is killing the world’s crops and dust storms sweep the farmland. Cooper, a former NASA pilot turned farmer, lives with his father-in-law and two children.
A strange signal leads him to what is left of NASA, where he is asked to fly a crew through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a planet people could live on, knowing he may not see his children again.
Ratings
As of 11 November 2026- IMDb8.7/102.6M votesTop 250 · #17
- Rotten Tomatoes73%Tomatometer · 374 reviewsPopcornmeter 87%
- Metacritic74/100Metascore · 46 reviews
- Letterboxd4.46/5Average rating
- Kinopoisk8.7/101.2M votesTop 250 · #1
Editor's score
Lars Ziegler · 6 November 20268.7/ 10Average of seven craft categories, each out of 10.
| Screenplay | 8 |
|---|---|
| Direction | 9 |
| Acting | 8 |
| Cinematography | 9 |
| Sound & music | 10 |
| Editing | 8 |
| Design | 9 |
How the ranking adds up
Total 75.4 / 100Facts
- World premiere
TCL Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles- Release (US)
- Runtime
- 169 min
- Genres
- Adventure · Drama · Science Fiction
- Studios
- Legendary Pictures, Syncopy, Lynda Obst Productions
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget
- $165 million
- Box office
- $782.4 million worldwide
$203.2 million domestic · $579.1 million international
Incl. re-releases · Box Office Mojo, 11 November 2026
Awards
Wikipedia, 11 November 2026| Ceremony | Won | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | 1 | 5 |
| BAFTA | 1 | 4 |
| Golden Globes | 0 | 1 |
Academy Awards won
Best Visual Effects
BAFTA won
Best Special Visual Effects
Also
Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film · Critics' Choice Award for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie · Empire Award for Best Film
Cast
Billing order- 01Matthew McConaugheyCooper
- 02Anne HathawayBrand
- 03Jessica ChastainMurph
- 04Bill IrwinTARS
- 05Ellen BurstynOlder Murph
- 06Michael CaineProfessor Brand
Key crew
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Screenplay
- Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
- Producers
- Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Lynda Obst
- Cinematography
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Editing
- Lee Smith
- Music
- Hans Zimmer
- Production design
- Nathan Crowley
Production notes
- 01
The physicist Kip Thorne, who later shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, was a science adviser and executive producer. The effects team's work on the black hole Gargantua became a published scientific paper.
- 02
For the farm scenes, Nolan planted around 500 acres of corn near Calgary and sold the crop afterwards. He has said the production made money on it.
- 03
The frozen planet was filmed on location in Iceland.