Blood Diamond
It will cost you everything.
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler.A Mende fisherman.Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $172M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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The record
Awards
1 win · 5 nominations
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 5 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Actor
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound Editing
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 win
- WinnerNational Board of Review: Top Ten Films
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Blood Diamond returned 1.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $100M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $172M
- Release date
- Dec 8, 2006
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Afrikaans, English
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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