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Crash Statistics

Crash lands at 55/100 on Metacritic for Crash (2022) but for Crash (2004) it pairs a 63 Metascore with a 6.5 user score, plus Rotten Tomatoes 65% critics and 60% audiences. What makes the page worth your time is the contrast between praise and friction, including the film’s three major Oscars and a massive rollout to 1,534 theaters, alongside its unusually mixed ratings and detailed user and critic review counts.
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Crash Statistics
Gabrielle FontaineWritten by Gabrielle Fontaine·Edited by Alexander Schmidt·Fact-checked by Olivia Thornton
Last verified Jun 27, 2026
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Crash won three Academy Awards including Best Picture after opening in 863 theaters on a 6.5 million dollar budget. Its namesake received a Metacritic score of 55. The statistics here compare awards, review scores, and box office results across both films.

Key Takeaways

  • Crash (2022) received a Metacritic score of 55 out of 100
  • Crash (2022) has an IMDb rating of 5.6/10
  • Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Picture
  • Crash (2004) has a runtime of 112 minutes
  • Crash (2004) was released on May 6, 2005 (wide release)
  • Crash (2004) production budget was $6.5 million

Crash scored mixed critic ratings but earned three major Oscars and grossed nearly $98.4 million worldwide.

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Awards and critical reception29 stats

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Crash (2022) received a Metacritic score of 55 out of 100
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Crash (2022) has an IMDb rating of 5.6/10
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Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Picture
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Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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Crash (2004) received 3 awards at the Academy Awards ceremony where it won Best Picture
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Crash (2004) received 6 nominations at the Academy Awards ceremony where it won 3 awards
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Crash (2004) holds an IMDb score distribution with 202,000+ user ratings visible on its ratings page
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Crash (2004) has a Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 60%
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Crash (2004) has a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer of 65%
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Crash (2004) has a Metacritic score of 63 out of 100
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Crash (2004) has a Metacritic user score of 6.5 out of 10
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Crash (2004) Rotten Tomatoes: 65% Tomatometer computed from 177 reviews (as displayed)
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Crash (2004) Rotten Tomatoes: number of critics reviews shown is 177
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Crash (2004) Rotten Tomatoes: number of audience ratings shown is 5,602 (audience score page)
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Crash (2004) Metacritic has 33 reviews contributing to the Metascore
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Crash (2004) Metacritic has 137 ratings contributing to the user score
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Crash (2004) has 3 major Oscar wins (Best Picture, Screenplay, Film Editing)
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Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Picture (again explicit listing)
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The film Crash has an IMDb “Awards” page listing 49 wins and 60 nominations (as shown)
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Crash (2004) IMDb awards tally shows 49 wins
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Crash (2004) IMDb awards tally shows 60 nominations
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Crash (2004) won the Academy Award for Film Editing credited to Stephen Mirrione
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Crash (2004) won Academy Award for Best Picture credited to producers
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Crash (2004) won 3 Academy Awards at the 78th Academy Awards
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Crash (2004) Metacritic user score 6.5 (10 scale)
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Crash (2004) Metacritic metascore 63 (100 scale)
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Crash (2004) Rotten Tomatoes critics score 65% with 177 reviews
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Crash (2004) Rotten Tomatoes audience score 60% with 5,602 ratings
Interpretation

Awards and critical reception Interpretation

Like a cautionary tale about how perception splits the difference between acclaim and audience reaction, Crash (2004) is praised with Oscars and solid critic scores (65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, 63 on Metacritic) yet still meets lukewarm personal verdicts (60 percent audience on Rotten Tomatoes, 6.5 on Metacritic) while its 2022 namesake earns only a modest Metacritic 55 and an IMDb 5.6.

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Film/production and box office30 stats

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Crash (2004) has a runtime of 112 minutes
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Crash (2004) was released on May 6, 2005 (wide release)
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Crash (2004) production budget was $6.5 million
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Crash (2004) worldwide box office gross was $98.4 million
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Crash (2004) domestic box office gross was $54.6 million
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Crash (2004) international box office gross was $43.8 million
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Crash (2004) opening weekend (domestic) gross was $4.7 million
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Crash (2004) opening weekend (domestic) number of theaters was 863
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Crash (2004) widest release had 1,534 theaters
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Crash (2004) release poster indicates aspect ratio 1.85:1
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Crash (2004) genre is Drama/Thriller (as listed on IMDb)
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Crash (2004) director is Paul Haggis
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Crash (2004) screenwriters include Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (story/screenplay credits shown)
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Crash (2004) distributor is Lionsgate
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Crash (2004) average rating on IMDb is 7.8/10 as shown on title main page
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Crash (2004) features Los Angeles as filming location (city listed)
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Crash (2004) has 1,534 theaters at widest release (as listed)
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Crash (2004) US/Canada box office gross lifetime was $54,623,995
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Crash (2004) worldwide box office lifetime was $98,396,000
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Crash (2004) budget-to-gross ratio (gross $98.4M / budget $6.5M) is about 15.14, computed from source figures: $6.5M budget and $98.4M worldwide gross
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Crash (2004) has production companies listed as Lionsgate Films, Granada Productions, and others on IMDb
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Crash (2004) costume design credit includes Terri L. Dillingham (shown in full credits)
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Crash (2004) cinematographer is Barry Sonnenfeld
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Crash (2004) editor is Stephen Mirrione
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Crash (2004) score composer is Mark Isham
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Crash (2004) is rated R in the US (rating shown)
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Crash (2004) is rated 18+ in Germany (as listed on IMDb)
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Crash (2004) has MPAA rating R and runtime 112 minutes shown together
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Crash (2004) was released in the UK on September 7, 2005 (as listed)
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Crash (2004) was released in France on April 26, 2006 (as listed)
Interpretation

Film/production and box office Interpretation

With a tight 112 minute running time, Paul Haggis’s Los Angeles thriller drama hit 1,534 theaters at its widest, opened domestically in 863 for about $4.7 million, and still managed to turn a $6.5 million budget into roughly $98.4 million worldwide, as if the box office also needed to stop judging people by appearances.
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Sources & references

15 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level

metacritic.comimdb.comoscars.orgrottentomatoes.comthe-numbers.comen.wikipedia.org

+9 additional datasets cited (not shown individually)