The Critic

1963 film by Ernest Pintoff
Movie short_film Q2410603
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The Critic

Summary

The Critic is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Critic received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3].
  • The Critic's instance of is recorded as short film[4].
  • The Critic's director is recorded as Ernest Pintoff[5].
  • The Critic's screenwriter is recorded as Mel Brooks[6].
  • The Critic's producer is recorded as Ernest Pintoff[7].
  • The Critic's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0056965[8].
  • The Critic's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9].
  • The Critic's color is recorded as color[10].
  • The Critic's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • The Critic's publication date is recorded as +1963-01-01T00:00:00Z[12].
  • The Critic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02x20mk[13].
  • The Critic's nominated for is recorded as Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[14].
  • The Critic's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Critic-animated-short-film-1963[15].
  • The Critic's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Critic'}[16].
  • The Critic's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+4'}[17].
  • The Critic's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 18812[18].
  • The Critic's Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 16743[19].
  • The Critic's OFDb film ID is recorded as 96255[20].
  • The Critic's Cinémathèque québécoise work ID is recorded as 45499[21].
  • The Critic's Big Cartoon Database ID is recorded as 38881[22].
  • The Critic's TMDB movie ID is recorded as 146320[23].
  • The Critic's Letterboxd film ID is recorded as the-critic[24].
  • The Critic's Academy Awards Database film ID is recorded as 2888[25].
  • The Critic's ACMI ID is recorded as works/96775[26].
  • The Critic's Trakt.tv ID is recorded as movies/the-critic-1963[27].

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Authorship and Creation

The Critic's producer is recorded as Ernest Pintoff[7]. Its director is recorded as Ernest Pintoff[5]. Its screenwriter is recorded as Mel Brooks[6].

Publication

The Critic's publication date is recorded as +1963-01-01T00:00:00Z[12]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[9].

Reception

The Critic received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3].

Why It Matters

The Critic ranks in the top 5% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

FAQs

What awards did The Critic receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . bcdb.com. Retrieved . bcdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . bcdb.com. Retrieved . bcdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Google Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Kinopoisk. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Online-Filmdatenbank. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . The Movie Database. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . acmi.net.au. acmi.net.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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