Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and attempt to return to Earth.

Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the film at Universal Pictures. Later, the distribution rights were acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures. David Heyman, who previously worked with Cuarón on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), produced the film with him. Gravity was produced entirely in the United Kingdom, where British visual effects company Framestore spent more than three years creating most of the film s visual effects, which involve over 80 of its 91 minutes.

Gravity opened the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013, and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. Upon its release, Gravity was met with widespread critical acclaim, with praise for its direction and visuals. Considered one of the best films of 2013, it appeared on numerous critics year-end lists, and was selected by the American Film Institute in their annual Movies of the Year list. The film became the eighth highest-grossing film of 2013 with a worldwide gross of over $723 million, against a production budget of around $100 million.

The film earned accolades from numerous critics and guilds. At the 86th Academy Awards, Gravity received ten nominations, including Best Actress for Bullock and Best Picture, and won seven awards, including Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects. The film was also awarded six BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, seven Critics Choice Movie Awards, the 2013 Ray Bradbury Award, and the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Plot

The Space Shuttle Explorer, commanded by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, is in Earth orbit to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Dr. Ryan Stone is aboard on her first space mission, to perform a set of hardware upgrades on the Hubble. During a spacewalk, Mission Control in Houston warns Explorer s crew about a rapidly expanding cloud of space debris accidentally caused by the Russians having shot down a presumed defunct spy satellite (see Kessler syndrome) and orders the crew to return to Earth immediately. Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly thereafter as more communication satellites are knocked out by the debris.

High-speed debris strikes the Explorer and Hubble, tearing Stone from the shuttle and leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), rescues Stone, and they return to the Explorer, soon discovering that the Shuttle has suffered catastrophic damage and the rest of the crew are dead. Stone and Kowalski decide to use the MMU to reach the International Space Station (ISS), which is in orbit about 1,450 km (900 mi) away, Kowalski estimating that they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again.

On their way to the ISS, the two discuss Stone s home life and her daughter, who died young in an accident. As they approach the station, they see that the ISS s crew has evacuated using one of its two Soyuz spacecraft, the remaining Soyuz spacecraft exhibiting damage with its parachute having been deployed in space rendering it unable to return to Earth. Kowalski suggests using it to travel to the nearby Tiangong space station, 100 km (60 mi) away, in order to board the Shenzhou spacecraft to return safely to Earth. Out of air and maneuvering fuel, the two try to grab onto the ISS; the duo s tether snaps on one of the station s solar panels. Stone s leg gets entangled in the Soyuz s parachute cords and she grabs a strap on Kowalski s suit, but it soon becomes clear that the cords will not support them both. Despite Stone s protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save her from drifting away with him. Stone is pulled back towards the ISS, while Kowalski floats away.

Stone enters the space station via the airlock of the Pirs module. She cannot re-establish communication with Kowalski or Earth, and concludes that she is now the sole survivor. Inside the station, a fire breaks out, forcing her to rush to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the Soyuz away from the ISS, the tangled parachute tethers snag, preventing the spacecraft from leaving; Stone performs a spacewalk to cut the cables, succeeding just as the debris field returns, destroying the station. Stone angles the Soyuz towards Tiangong, but soon discovers that the Soyuz s engine has no fuel.

After an attempt at radio communication with an Inuk on Earth, Stone resigns herself to her fate and shuts down the cabin s oxygen supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose consciousness, there is a knock on the window, and Kowalski enters the capsule. Scolding her for giving up, he tells her to rig the Soyuz s soft landing rockets to propel the capsule toward Tiangong, before himself disappearing. Realizing Kowalski s appearance was an hallucination, Stone regains the will to go on, restoring the spacecraft s oxygen flow and rigging the landing rockets to propel the capsule towards Tiangong.

Unable to dock with Tiangong, Stone ejects herself from the Soyuz and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel to the rapidly deorbiting Tiangong. Stone manages to enter Tiangong s Shenzhou capsule just as the station enters the upper atmosphere, undocking the capsule just in time.

The Shenzhou capsule re-enters the atmosphere successfully, despite having sustained debris damage during its descent, and lands in a lake. Radio communication from Houston informs Stone that she has been tracked on radar and that rescue crews are on their way. Stone opens the hatch but is unable to exit due to water rushing in. She takes a deep breath and holds it until the capsule sinks, allowing her to swim through the hatch. She sheds her Sokol space suit that is weighing her down, and crawls onto the beach before standing up triumphantly and walking away.

Cast

• Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer and mission specialist from Lake Zurich, Illinois, who is on her first space mission. According to Cuarón, Stone is a character who lives in her own bubble , and in the film she s trapped in her space suit. Bullock s role was extremely demanding and daunting. She called the experience lonely and said there was frustrating, painful isolation on set, but in the best way, and described her working day on the shoot as a morose headspace . She was cast in 2010, just a few months after finalizing her divorce from Jesse James. The Hollywood Reporter estimated that Bullock would earn at least $70 million based on theatrical returns alone for the film.
• George Clooney as Lieutenant Matt Kowalski, the commander of the team. Kowalski is a veteran astronaut planning to retire after the Explorer expedition. He enjoys telling stories about himself and joking with his team, and is determined to protect the lives of his fellow astronauts.
• Ed Harris (voice) as Mission Control in Houston, Texas.
• Orto Ignatiussen (voice) as Aningaaq, a Greenlandic Inuk fisherman who intercepts one of Stone s transmissions. Aningaaq also appears in an eponymous short, written and directed by Gravity co-writer Jonás Cuarón, which depicts the conversation between him and Stone from his perspective.
• Phaldut Sharma (voice) as Shariff Dasari, the flight engineer on board the Explorer.
• Amy Warren (voice) as the captain of Explorer.
• Basher Savage (voice) as the captain of the International Space Station.

Themes

Although Gravity is often considered to be a science fiction film, Cuarón told the BBC that he does not, rather seeing it as a drama of a woman in space . According to him, the main theme of the film was adversity and he uses the debris as a metaphor for this.

Despite being set in space, the film uses motifs from shipwreck and wilderness survival stories about psychological change and resilience in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Cuarón uses the Stone character to illustrate clarity of mind, persistence, training, and improvisation in the face of isolation and the consequences of a relentless Murphy s law. The film incorporates spiritual or existential themes, in the facts of Stone s daughter s accidental and meaningless death, and in the necessity of summoning the will to survive in the face of overwhelming odds, without future certainties, and with the impossibility of rescue from personal dissolution without finding this willpower. Calamities occur but only the surviving astronauts see them.

The impact of scenes is heightened by alternating between objective and subjective perspectives, the warm face of the Earth and the depths of dark space, the chaos and unpredictability of the debris field, and silence in the vacuum of space with the background score giving the desired effect. The film uses very long, uninterrupted shots throughout to draw the audience into the action, but contrasts these with claustrophobic shots within space suits and capsules.

Human evolution and the resilience of life may also be seen as key themes of Gravity. The film opens with the exploration of space—the vanguard of human civilization—and ends with an allegory of the dawn of mankind when Ryan Stone fights her way out of the water after the crash-landing, passing a frog, grabs the soil, and slowly regains her capacity to stand upright and walk. Director Cuarón said, She s in these murky waters almost like an amniotic fluid or a primordial soup, in which you see amphibians swimming. She crawls out of the water, not unlike early creatures in evolution. And then she goes on all fours. And after going on all fours she s a bit curved until she is completely erect. It was the evolution of life in one, quick shot . Other imagery depicting the formation of life includes a scene in which Stone rests in an embryonic position, surrounded by a rope strongly resembling an umbilical cord. Stone s return from space, accompanied by meteorite-like debris, may be seen as a hint that elements essential to the development of life on Earth may have come from outer space in the form of meteorites. The film also suggests themes of humanity s ubiquitous strategy of existential resilience; that, across cultures, individuals must postulate meaning, beyond material existence, wherever none can be perceived.

Some commentators have noted possible religious themes in the film. For instance, Robert Barron in The Catholic Register summarizes the tension between Gravity s technology and religious symbolism. He said, The technology which this film legitimately celebrates … can t save us, and it can t provide the means by which we establish real contact with each other. The Ganges in the sun, the Saint Christopher icon, the statue of Budai, and above all, a visit from a denizen of heaven, signal that there is a dimension of reality that lies beyond what technology can master or access … the reality of God .

Production

Development

As a child, Alfonso Cuarón had an affinity for space programs, dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and would watch live Moon landings on television. He was 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969 and was profoundly influenced by Neil Armstrong. At that time, his grandmother bought a new television in order to be able to see the Moon landing. He watched space films, like A Trip to the Moon (1902), and was further drawn to films featuring the technology of space exploration and trying to honor the laws of physics, such as Marooned (1969) and Woman in the Moon (1929).

In 2008, money dried up on a project titled A Boy and His Shoe written by Cuarón and his son Jonás. They wrote a first draft of what would become Gravity in three weeks. After they finished the screenplay, Cuarón attempted to develop his project at Universal Pictures, where it stayed in development hell. When co-chairmen Marc Shmuger and David Linde were ousted from Universal in 2009, Cuarón asked for the project to be released, and then Warner Bros Pictures chief Jeff Robinov stepped in. After the rights to the project were sold, it began development at Warner Bros. Three years later, when the movie was still unfinished, Robinov was let go.

In 2014, author Tess Gerritsen filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for breach of contract, alleging that the film Gravity is an adaptation of her 1999 novel of the same name. The suit was dismissed twice in 2015.

Writing

Cuarón co-wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás. However, Cuarón never intended to make a space film. Before conceiving the story, he started out with a theme: adversity. He would discuss with Jonás survival scenarios in hostile, isolated locations, such as the desert (Jonás wrote a desert film, Desierto, which was released in 2015). Finally, he decided to take it to an extreme place where there s nothing: I had this image of an astronaut spinning into space away from human communication. The metaphor was already so obvious.

Casting

For the female role, Cuarón was in search of a lead that could carry the film in a manner akin to Tom Hanks s character in Cast Away, being the only person onscreen for a large part of the movie, and he began looking at a wide range of actors for the role. In 2010, Angelina Jolie, who had rejected a sequel to Wanted (2008), was in contact with Warner Bros. to star in the film. Scheduling conflicts involving Jolie s Bosnian war film In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), and a possible sequel to Salt (2010) led Jolie to end her involvement with Gravity, leaving Warner Bros. with doubts that the film would get made. The studio approached her for a second time to reconsider her former decision, but Jolie again declined.

In mid-2010, Marion Cotillard screen-tested for the part but instead went on to accept a role in another sci-fi film, Inception and the comedy–drama Little White Lies. Scheduling conflicts with the television series Gossip Girl in Manhattan and the film The Town in Boston prevented actress Blake Lively from getting the part. In September 2010, Cuarón received approval from Warner Bros. to offer the role without a screen test to Natalie Portman, who was praised for her performance in Black Swan (2010) at that time. Portman rejected the project because of scheduling conflicts. Other stars considered to some degree included Naomi Watts, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, and Olivia Wilde. Warner Bros. then approached Sandra Bullock for the role, and she was cast in October 2010.

In March 2010, Robert Downey Jr. had entered discussions to be cast in the male lead role, but he left the project that November to star in How to Talk to Girls—a project in development with Shawn Levy attached to direct. In December, with Bullock signed for the co-lead role, George Clooney replaced Downey.

Filming

Made on a production budget of $100 million, Gravity was filmed digitally on multiple Arri Alexa cameras. Most of the film is computer generated. In the majority of shots the only elements captured with a camera are the faces. The movie was shot digitally using Arri Alexa Classics cameras equipped with wide Arri Master Prime lenses. The final scene, which takes place on Earth, was shot on an Arri 765 camera using 65mm film to provide the sequence with a visual contrast to the rest of the film. CGI elements were shot at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom. The landing scene was filmed at Lake Powell, Arizona—where the astronauts landing scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) was also filmed.

Principal photography began in London, on May 9, 2011. The film contains 156 shots, with an average length of 45 seconds—fewer and longer shots than in most films of its length. Although the first trailer had audible explosions and other sounds, these scenes are silent in the finished film. Cuarón said, They put in explosions. As we know, there is no sound in space. In the film, we don t do that. The soundtrack in the film s space scenes consists of the musical score and sounds astronauts would hear in their suits or in the space vehicles.

For most of Bullock s shots, she was placed inside a large mechanical rig with thousands of LED bulbs to simulate outer space. Getting into the lightbox rig took a significant amount of time, and so Bullock stayed in it for up to 10 hours a day, communicating through a headset. Costume Designer Jany Temime said the spacesuits were fictitious – no space suit opens up at the front – but we had to do that in order for her to get out. So I had to redesign it and readapt all the functions of the suit for front opening. Cuarón said his biggest challenge was to make the set feel as inviting and non-claustrophobic as possible, including having a large celebration each day when Bullock arrived. Shooting long scenes in a zero-g environment was a challenge, and so they used computer-generated imagery for the spacewalk scenes and automotive robots to move Bullock s character for interior space station scenes. Shots and blocking had to be planned well in advance for the robots to be programmed, which caused the production period to last four and half years. Cuarón had initially assumed it would take about a year to complete the film after completing the script. The lightbox was named one of 2013 s best inventions by Time magazine, and is suggested as a breakthrough in entertainment technology comparable to the motion-capture technology of Avatar (2009), the battle-scene software of Lord of the Rings (2001–2003), and the bullet time effect of The Matrix (1999).

Warner Bros started screening the movie to test audiences well before it was finished, with crude animation instead of finished special effects. Initial feedback asked for monsters or aliens. Cuarón refused. It was only at the 2012 Comic-Con, where the opening sequence was successfully showcased, the studio was finally convinced the project could succeed.

Cinematography

Cuarón wanted to do tracking shots, in part because the producers wanted to film it like an IMAX-style Discovery Channel documentary. Like his previous films, Emmanuel Lubezki did not use prior footage as the starting point of his work on Gravity. Instead, he carried out a search of images from NASA and Roscosmos. He and his team put together a large collection of photographs and picked what was best for the film. Lubezki said that they based the visuals on descriptions from astronauts, with some artistic license in depicting how the stars looked during the daytime in space. He wanted to incorporate the stars as much as possible to feel as deep as possible and avoid plain darkness and two dimensional feeling.

The 13-minute opening scene was challenging for the team to shoot. Cuarón asked Lubezki to start the film with a brightly lit Earth, adding shadows and dusk as the threat grows stronger. The light was constantly changing from one frame to the other with the actors spinning around the shuttle, the shuttle itself spinning, and the Earth spinning as well as orbiting around the sun all simultaneously. It took many months to design it and years to shoot it. When the team designed the sequence, Lubezki had in mind one of his favorite cinematographers, Vittorio Storaro, and how he utilized lighting in his films.

Visual effects

Visual effects were supervised by Tim Webber at the British VFX company Framestore, which was responsible for creating most of the film s visual effects—except for 17 shots. Framestore was also heavily involved in the art direction and, along with The Third Floor, the previsualization. Tim Webber stated that 80 percent of the film consisted of CGI—compared to James Cameron s Avatar (2009), which was 60 percent CGI. To simulate the authenticity and reflection of unfiltered light in space, a manually controlled lighting system consisting of 1.8 million individually controlled LED lights was built. The 3D imagery was designed and supervised by Chris Parks. The majority of the 3D was created by stereo rendering the CGI at Framestore. The remaining footage was converted into 3D in post-production—principally at Prime Focus, London, with additional conversion work by Framestore.

Music

Steven Price composed the incidental music for Gravity. In early September 2013, a 23-minute preview of the soundtrack was released online. A soundtrack album was released digitally on September 17, 2013, and in physical formats on October 1, 2013, by WaterTower Music. Songs featured in the film include:

• Angels Are Hard to Find by Hank Williams Jr.
• Mera Joota Hai Japani by Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan
• Sinigit Meerannguaq by Juaaka Lyberth
• Destination Anywhere by Chris Benstead and Robin Baynton
• 922 Anthem by Djay Adx and Gaurav Dayal
• Ready by Charles Scott (featuring Chelsea Williams)

In most of the film s official trailers, Spiegel im Spiegel, written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978, was used.

Release

Gravity had its world premiere at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013, and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. It was released in the US in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D on October 4, 2013, and in the UK on November 1, 2013. The film s US release coincided with the beginning of World Space Week, which was observed from October 4 to 10. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the US on November 21, 2012, before being rescheduled for a 2013 release to allow the completion of extensive post-production work.

Box office

Gravity emerged as one of the most successful sci-fi films of all time, and the biggest box office hit of both Sandra Bullock and George Clooney s careers. It became the highest-grossing feature film in October history, surpassing the animated Puss in Boots and holding the record until 2019 s Joker. Bullock s previous highest-grossing film was Speed ($350.2 million) while Clooney s benchmark was Ocean s Eleven ($450.6 million).

Preliminary reports predicted the film would open with around $40 million in the US and Canada. The film earned $1.4 million from its Thursday night showings, and reached $17.5 million on Friday. Gravity topped the box office and broke the record held by Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) as the highest-earning October and autumn openings, grossing $55.8 million from 3,575 theaters. 80 percent of the film s opening weekend gross came from its 3D showings, which grossed $44.2 million from 3,150 theaters. $11.2 million—20 percent of the receipts—came from IMAX 3D showings, the highest percentage for a film opening of more than $50 million. The film stayed at number one at the box office during its second and third weekends. IMAX alone generated $34.7 million from 323 theaters, a record for IMAX opening in October.

Gravity earned $27.4 million in its opening weekend overseas from 27 countries with $2.8 million from roughly 4,763 screens. Warner Bros. said the 3D showing exceeded all expectations and generated 70 percent of the opening grosses. In China, its second largest market, the film opened on November 19, 2013, and faced competition with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire which opened on November 21, 2013. At the end of the weekend Gravity emerged victorious, generating $35.76 million in six days. It opened at number one in the United Kingdom, taking £6.23 million over the first weekend of release, and remained there for the second week. The film s high notable openings were in Russia and the CIS ($8.1 million), Germany ($3.8 million), Australia ($3.2 million), Italy ($2.6 million) and Spain ($2.3 million). The film s largest markets outside North America were China ($71.2 million), the United Kingdom ($47 million) and France ($38.2 million). By February 17, 2014, the film had grossed $700 million worldwide. Gravity grossed $274,092,705 in North America and $449,100,000 in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $723,192,705—making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2013. Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $209.2 million.

According to the tracking site Excipio, Gravity was one of the most copyright-infringed films of 2014 with over 29.3 million downloads via torrent sites.

Reception

Cuarón shows things that cannot be but, miraculously, are, in the fearful, beautiful reality of the space world above our world. If the film past is dead, Gravity shows us the glory of cinema s future. It thrills on so many levels. And because Cuarón is a movie visionary of the highest order, you truly can t beat the view.

—Richard Corliss of Time

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 356 reviews, with an average rating of 9.00/10. The website s critical consensus states: Alfonso Cuarón s Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that s masterfully directed and visually stunning. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out based on reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating universal acclaim , and making it the second-highest scoring widely released film of its year. In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Gravity an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale. CinemaScore later issued an apology for the grade, saying they should have limited the poll to 3D showings instead of both 2D and 3D screenings (The Hollywood Reporter said it was playing like an A+ film ).

Matt Zoller Seitz, writing on RogerEbert.com, gave the film four out of four stars, calling it a huge and technically dazzling film and that the film s panoramas of astronauts tumbling against starfields and floating through space station interiors are at once informative and lovely . Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said that the film restores a sense of wonder, terror and possibility to the big screen that should inspire awe among critics and audiences worldwide . Richard Corliss of Time praised Cuarón for playing daringly and dexterously with point-of-view: at one moment you re inside Ryan s helmet as she surveys the bleak silence, then in a subtle shift you re outside to gauge her reaction. The 3-D effects, added in post-production, provide their own extraterrestrial startle: a hailstorm of debris hurtles at you, as do a space traveler s thoughts at the realization of being truly alone in the universe.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film five out of five stars, writing a brilliant and inspired movie-cyclorama … a glorious imaginary creation that engulfs you utterly. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph also awarded the film five out of five stars.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film four out of four stars, stating that the film was more than a movie. It s some kind of miracle. A. O. Scott, writing for The New York Times, highlighted the use of 3-D which he said, surpasses even what James Cameron accomplished in the flight sequences of Avatar . Scott also said that the film in a little more than 90 minutes rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them . Quentin Tarantino said it was one of his top ten films of 2013. Empire, Time and Total Film ranked the film as the best of 2013.

Some critics have compared Gravity with other notable films set in space. Lindsey Weber of Vulture.com said the choice of Ed Harris for the voice of Mission Control is a reference to Apollo 13. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter suggests the way a weightless Stone goes floating about in nothing but her underwear references Alien (1979). Other critics made connections with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). James Cameron praised the film and stated, I think it s the best space photography ever done, I think it s the best space film ever done, and it s the movie I ve been hungry to see for an awful long time . Empire Online, AskMen and The Huffington Post also considered Gravity to be one of the best space films ever made,. While The Huffington Post s Lauren Duca later included Gravity on the site s list of 8 Movies from the Last 15 Years That Are Super Overrated , another of the site s film critics, Christopher Rosen, placed it at the top of his list of Best Movies of 2013. Gravity was included on the top ten lists of 93 critics and topped the list of 22 of them.

Accolades

Gravity received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards; together with American Hustle it received the greatest number of nominations for the 2014 ceremony, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Bullock, and Best Production Design. The film won the most awards of the night with seven Academy Awards: for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. The film is second only to Cabaret (1972) to receive the most Academy Awards in its year without winning Best Picture, and has since been the most awarded film since Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

Cuarón won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama for Bullock and Best Original Score.

Gravity received eleven nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, more than any other film of 2013. Its nominations included Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress in a Leading Role. Cuarón was the most-nominated person at the awards; he was nominated for five awards, including his nominations as producer for Best Film awards and editor. Despite not winning Best Film, Gravity won six awards, the greatest number of awards in 2013. It won the awards for Outstanding British Film, Best Direction, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.

Gravity also won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

Home media

Gravity was released on digital download on February 11, 2014, and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on February 25, 2014, in the United States and on March 3, 2014, in the United Kingdom. As of March 16, 2014, Gravity has sold 908,756 DVDs along with 957,355 Blu-ray discs for $16,465,600 and $22,183,843, respectively, for a total of $38,649,443. Gravity was also offered for free in HD on Google Play and Nexus devices from late October 2014 to early November 2014.

A special edition Blu-ray was released on March 31, 2015. The release includes a Silent Space Version of the film which omits the score composed by Steven Price.

Scientific accuracy

Cuarón has stated that Gravity is not always scientifically accurate and that some liberties were needed to sustain the story. Despite this, the film has been praised for the realism of its premises and its overall adherence to physical principles, although several inaccuracies and exaggerations were still noted. According to NASA Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, who took part in Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions STS-109 and STS-125, nothing was out of place, nothing was missing. There was a one-of-a-kind wirecutter we used on one of my spacewalks and sure enough they had that wirecutter in the movie.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin called the visual effects remarkable and he hoped that the film would stimulate the public to find an interest in space again, after decades of diminishing investments into advancements in the field:

I was so extravagantly impressed by the portrayal of the reality of zero gravity. Going through the space station was done just the way that I ve seen people do it in reality. The spinning is going to happen—maybe not quite that vigorous—but certainly we ve been fortunate that people haven t been in those situations yet. I think it reminds us that there really are hazards in the space business, especially in activities outside the spacecraft.

Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman said:

The pace and story was definitely engaging and I think it was the best use of the 3-D IMAX medium to date. Rather than using the medium as a gimmick, Gravity uses it to depict a real environment that is completely alien to most people. But the question that most people want me to answer is, how realistic was it? The very fact that the question is being asked so earnestly is a testament to the verisimilitude of the movie. When a bad science fiction movie comes out, no one bothers to ask me if it reminded me of the real thing.

Former astronaut Chris Hadfield was critical of Gravity s portrayal of astronauts, particularly its depiction of Bullock s character, saying When she s faced with a problem, she s panicking and has no idea what to do. George Clooney is driving around like some sort of space cowboy and he s the only one who has any idea what s going on. I think it set back a little girl s vision of what a woman astronaut can be an entire generation. In contrast, Vanessa Reich-Shackelford from Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology while considering the character of Dr. Ryan Stone wrote: I came to realize that writers Alfonso (also director) and Jonás Cuarón had created one of the most positive representation of a woman in STEM on screen so far.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronomer and skeptic Phil Plait, and veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker Scott E. Parazynski have offered comments about some of the most glaring inaccuracies. The Dissolve characterized these complaints as absurd , problems only an astrophysicist would find .

Examples of differences from reality include:

• Several observers (including Plait and Tyson) said that in the scene in which Kowalski unclips his tether and floats away to his death to save Stone from being pulled away from the ISS, Stone would simply need to tug the tether gently to pull Kowalski toward her. According to the film s science adviser Kevin Grazier and NASA engineer Robert Frost, however, the pair are still decelerating with Stone s leg caught in the parachute cords from the Soyuz. The cords stretch as they absorb her kinetic energy. Kowalski thinks that the cords are not strong enough to absorb his kinetic energy as well as hers, and that he must release the tether to give Stone a chance of stopping before the cords fail and doom both of them.
• By the time Tiangong-1 was launched in 2011, the Space Shuttle had been retired from service.
• Stone is shown not wearing liquid-cooled ventilation garments or even socks, which are always worn under the EVA suit to protect against extreme temperatures in space. Neither was she shown wearing space diapers. Unlike real space suits, Stone can open her suit in the front, by herself.
• Stone s tears first roll down her face in micro-gravity, and are later seen floating off her face. After being pushed from her eye by her eyelid, the surface tension is not sufficient for the tears to continue adhering to her jawline. However, the film correctly portrays the spherical nature of drops of liquid in a micro-gravity environment.
• Kowalski s use of the MMU as his personal jet pack zipping around the spacewalking scene was criticized by Time s Jeffery Kluger as being unrealistic. NASA s spacewalks are strictly choreographed in advance.
• The Hubble Space Telescope, which is what shuttle Explorer is there to repair at the beginning of the film, previously had an altitude of about 559 kilometres (347 mi) and an orbital inclination of 28.5 degrees. As of the release of the film, the International Space Station, which is where they travel using only Kowalski s MMU, had an altitude of around 420 kilometres (260 mi) and an orbital inclination of 51.65 degrees. The significant differences between orbital parameters would have made it impossible to travel between the two spacecraft without precise preparation, planning, calculation, the appropriate technology, and a large quantity of fuel at the time.

Despite the inaccuracies in Gravity, Tyson, Plait and Parazynski all said they enjoyed watching the film. Astronaut Cady Coleman advised Sandra Bullock on the film.

Year	2013
ReleaseDate	2013-10-04
RuntimeMins	91
RuntimeStr	1h 31min
Plot	Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
Awards	Won 7 Oscars, 239 wins & 187 nominations total
Directors	Alfonso Cuarón
Writers	Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
Stars	Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Produced by	Alfonso Cuarón,Christopher DeFaria,David Heyman,Stephen Jones,Nikki Penny,Gabriela Rodriguez
Music by	Steven Price
Cinematography by	Emmanuel Lubezki
Film Editing by	Alfonso Cuarón,Mark Sanger
Casting By	Richard Hicks,David Rubin,Lucinda Syson
Production Design by	Andy Nicholson
Art Direction by	Mark Scruton
Set Decoration by	Rosie Goodwin,Joanne Woollard
Costume Design by	Jany Temime
Makeup Department	Waldo Sanchez,Janine Thompson,Pamela S. Westmore,Ann Fenton,Richard Glass,Nikki Hambi,Natasha Ladek,Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore,Vanessa White,Natalie Wickens
Production Management	Gary Bunn,Steve Harding,Marianne Jenkins,Jessie Thiele Schroeder,David Siegel,Emma Zee,Jennifer Corey,Afnahn Khan,Jason Pomerantz,Barbara Russo
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Edward Brett,Tom Brewster,Marcia Gay,Stephen E. Hagen,Toby Hefferman,Ben Howard,Josh Robertson,Emma Horton,James McGrady,Emily Perowne
Art Department	David Allum,Chris Baker,Jim Barr,Pierre Bohanna,Peter Brown,Peter N. Brown,Dan Bryant,Jon Bunker,Julian Caldow,Sarah Clamp,Jane Clark,Temple Clark,Sophie Coombes,Jim Cornish,Chris Cull,Dan Curtis,Billy Edwards,Chris Eldridge,Marianne Elgaard-Bendtsen,Neil Ellis,Gary Faulkner,Neil Floyd,Ruth George,Adrian Getley,Tamzine Hanks,Jessica Harris-Freeth,Chris Hayes,Darren Hayward,Jonathan Jackson,Harriet Johnson,Andrew Joslin,Tiffany Kearsley,Stephen Kill,Helen Koutas,Jamie Martin,Kevin Mathews,Daniel May,Catriona Meridew,Stuart Meridew,David Merryweather,Maja Meschede,Day Murch,Heather Noble,Martin O Connor,Danny O Regan Jr.,Bill Pearson,Alan Perez,Jez Plumridge,Caroline Pool,Rhys Pugh,Daren Reynolds,Matt Sims,Dean Smith,Will Sumpter,Frances Sweeney,Rob Thompson,Paul Threadgold,Lloyd Vincent,Stuart Walpole,Chan Chi Wan,Danny Webster,Ivan Weightman,John Weller,Grant Wiesinger,Andrew Williamson,Steve Wotherspoon,Sophie Allen,Grant Armstrong,Emily Bick,Chris Cook,Chris Costello,Steve Dring,Robert J. Dugdale,Philip Gay,Thomas Goodwin,Joseph Harlow,Alison Harvey,David Hewitt,Karen Krizanovich,Angela Kyriacou,Jules Newman,Daniel Nussbaumer,Danny O Keefe,Skot Reynolds,Simon Riley,Mark Rocca,Richard Van Den Bergh,Terry Whitehouse,Sam Williams,Timna Woollard
Sound Department	Hugo Adams,Niv Adiri,Ben Barker,Nicolas Becker,Christopher Benstead,Nick Del-Molino,Mark DeSimone,Gillian Dodders,Steve Finn,Danny Freemantle,Glenn Freemantle,Nick Freemantle,Nina Hartstone,Eilam Hoffman,Skip Lievsay,Aurélien Mauro,Jim McBride,Chris Munro,Chris Navarro,Emilie O Connor,Ric Schnupp,Andy Stallabrass,William Towers,Nick Watson,Michael Brigman,Shayna Brown,Paul Buscemi,Vincent Cosson,Robert Edwards,Evan J Haley,Victor J. Hernandez,Max Hilliard,James Hyde,Matthew Iadarola,Andy Kennedy,Nick Kray,Adam Mendez,Paul Munro,Thomas J. O Connell,Jordan O Neill,Brian Seagrave,Jason Stevens,Keith Tinman,Ryan Young
Special Effects by	Vince Abbott,Vanessa Bastyan,Jonathan Bickerdike,Fiona Cazaly,Ian Corbould,Malcolm Crash Corbould,Neil Corbould,Steve Cullane,Manex Efrem,Marlene Efrem,Mark Grew,Terry Jones,Stuart Kerr,Samantha Knox-Johnston,Chris Lovegrove,Kevin Lumley,Dave Poole,Robin Schoonraad,Kate Alexandra Smith,Karol Stachowicz,Matt Wood,Alan Young,Tim Ambridge,Andrew Duffy,Julia Gottlieb,Luke Marcel,Tony Moore,Ian Murray,Ken Pearce,Marcus Richardson,Graham Riddell,James Willis
Visual Effects by	Tarik Abdel-Gawad,Ben Aickin,Tolu Aina,Vladislav Akhtyrskiy,William Alexander,Nikhil M. Anand,Valeria Andino,Nigel Ankers,Daniele Antinolfi,Kristian Antonelli,Andrea Arghinenti,Charlie Armstrong,Myles Asseter,Sven Assmuss,Atanas Atanasov,Vincent Aupetit,Matthias Baas,Atal Bacchani,Emma Bacon,Tigran Badalyan,Negin Bairami,Michael Baker,Richard Baker,Mark Bakowski,Manjusha Balachandran-Hall,Harry Bardak,Benoit Bargeton,Matthew Barnett,Tom Baskaya,David Bates,Daniel Batt,Matt Beale,Paul Beilby,Adrian Bell,Kevin Bell,Laurent Benhamo,Charlie Bennett,Jeremy Berruel,Mark Berry,Jourdan Biziou,Michael Blain,Francois Bleibel,Vincent Bonnet,Michael Borhi,Michele Bosi,Scott Bourne,Tim Bowman,William Brand,Matthew Bristowe,Laurie Brugger,Michael Brunet,Lukasz Bukowiecki,Helen Bunker,Will Burdett,Kate Burgess,Paul Burton,Lexie Busby,Henry Bush,Billy Butler,Kendra Byrne,Bryon Caldwell,Alexander Cameron,Angus Cameron,Felipe Canfora,Pete Capelluto,Miguel Carballal,Simon Carlile,Ronan Carr Fanning,Sophie Carroll,Fiona Carruthers,Óscar Carámbano,Mark Casey,Tom Castellani,Jeremy Celeste,Manjoe Chan,Phoenix Chan,Blandine Chanteur,Anthony Chappina,Prathmesh Chaukekar,Ching-Yi Chen,Albert Cheng,Eddie Chew,Sebastien Chort,Michael Christophersson,Tony Clark,Joel Clarke,Chris Clough,Esme Coleman,Ian Comley,Chris Cook,Mathew Cooling,Ian Cope,Richard Courtman,Antonio Covelo Peleteiro,Tylie Cox,Jean-Baptiste Cumont,Eoghan Cunneen,Gordon Curtis,Amy Davis,Scott Dawkins,Mario de Dios,Gordon Spencer De Haseth,José Luis de Lucas,Jo De Mey,Michelle Dean,Tabitha Dean,Virginie Degorgue,Sylvain Degrotte,Claire Denwood,Laura Dias,Sara Diaz,Sylvan Dieckmann,Rico Dober,Clym Dodds,Oz Dolphin,Kye Dorricott,Wayde Duncan-Smith,Yann Dupont,Florence Durante,Thomas Dyg,Carl Edlund,Dadi Einarsson,Phil Eldridge,Marco Aurélio Engelmann Santos,Selcuk Ergen,Lars Erik Eriksen,Alexander Eriksson,Karl Erlandsen,Daniel Evans,Matthew Evans,Robert E. Evans,Shayne Farrier,Federico Favaro,Daniel Favini,Jonathan Fawkner,Daniele Federico,Eric Feng,Oliver Fergusson-Taylor,Ricardo Ferreira,David Fish,James D. Fleming,Nicola Fontana,Guillaume Fradin,Roland Friedrich,Ben Frost,Kai Gadd,Aldo Gagliardi,Graham Gallagher,Rob Garner,Sarah Gatefield,Daniel Gerhardt,Danny Geurtsen,Mauro Giacomazzo,Luke Gibbard,Thomas Girdwood,Alessandro Gobbetti,Jose Luis Gomez Diaz,Antoine Goncalves,Marcus Goodwin,Sam Gordon,Matthieu Goutte,Richard Graham,Adeline Grange,Eoin Greenham,Theodor Groeneboom,Sirish Babu Gurrala,Ben Guthrie,Christopher Haldane,Jonny Hall,Robert J. Hall,Asa Hammond,Pierre-Loic Hamon,Nicholas Hampshire,Sam Hancock,Steve Hardy,James Harmer,Ben Harrison,Michael Haslam,Scott Carrington Hatcher,Jack Hawkes,Geoff Heatley,Karsten Hecker,Eoin Hegan,Ngoc Heng,Warwick Hewett,Mark Hills,Sam Hodge,Victoria Hodson,Adam Holmes,Daren Horley,Jason Horley,Max Horton,Vincent Houze,Andy Howard,Charles Howell,Shawn Hull,Jess Hunt,Jessica Amber Hurst,Paul Hurwitz,Paul Ingram,Jamie Isles,Sasha Leigh Izadpanah,Alex Jackson,Abby Jacobsen,Anna V. James,Jakub Jezek,Christopher Django Johnston,Aled Rhys Jones,Dennis Jones,Gareth Jones,Joao Jorge,Christian Kaestner,Per Karefelt,Ravi Krishna Kasumarthy,Ervin Kaszap,Aristomenis Katzagiannakis,Lucinda Keeler,Oliver Kellmann,Uzma Khalid,Andy Kind,Paul Kirwan,Noah Klabunde,Bastian Klucker,Rikki Knight-Trembath,Aziz Kocanaogullari,Kubilay Kocaoglu,Sidney Kombo,Jakob Kousholt,Dan Kunz,Laurent Laban,Arianna Lago,Ben Lambert,Jorel Latraille,Chris Lawrence,Daniel Lawrence,Jose Lazaro,Rickie Leach,Aaron Lear,Claudia Lechen,Shahar Levavi,Jami Levesque,Beren Lewis,Aysha Ley,Bonnie Lin,Jeff Linnell,Henrik Linnet,Sarah Lister,Fiona Liu,James Liu,Jose Pep Llado,Russell Lloyd II,Stein Lotveit,Gregory Louden,David Louis,Patrick Lowry,Christina Lum,Stephen MacKershan,Steve MacPherson,Benjamin Magaña,Emil Malm,Trisha Manbeck,Brett Margules,Antonio Marra,Gary Marshall,Jose Martin,Paul Martin,Olivier Martiny,Ian Mathews,Giacomo Matteucci,Richard McBride,Lauren McCallum,Kyle McCulloch,Declan McGuire,Scott McInnes,Gavin McKenzie,Sarah McLauchlan,Jan Meade,Alex Meddick,Horacio Mendoza,Ian Menzies,Aron Merritt,Christophe Meslin,Adrian Metzelaar,Ellie Meure,Claire Michaud,Jarl Midelfort,Mark Millena,Adrian Millington,Chirag Mistry,Yann Moalic,László Molnár,Steven Moor,Danielle Morley,Ben Morris,Michael Mulholland,Adriano Mulè,Irene Navarro,Leo Neelands,Bruce Nelson,Devdatta Nerurkar,Nick Newberry,Dale Newton,Jeff Newton,James Nicholl,Gary Noble,David J. Nolan,Barry O Brien,Robert O Neill,Richard Ollosson,Mark Osborne,Sam Osborne,Marcus Ottosson,Premamurti Paetsch,Guo Kun Pan,Steve Pang,Emanuele Paris,Jasper Parker Trenfield,Adam Parker,Chris Parks,Florian Parrot,James Parsons,Adam Paschke,Ben Paschke,Diego Pastor Bartoli,Bhaumik Patel,Lorna Paterson,Sujeet Patil,Russell Pawson,John Peck,Stuart Penn,Manuel Perez,Menelaos Peristeridis,Billy Perry,Rajiv Perseedoss,Max Persson,Andy Phillips,Nick Pill,Adrian Pinder,Milen Piskuliyski,Jean Poh,Marine Poirson,Rick Poley,Lee Chan Popo,Adam Potter,Painting Practice,Martin Preston,Eddie Prickett,Duncan Ransom,Sagar Rathod,Adam Redford,Siân Rees,Sam Remfry,Robin Reyer,Marc Rice,Rob Richardson,Johannes Richter,Reinhold Rittinger,Bjarni Robert Bragason,Paul Roberts,Dave Robinson,Philip J. Robinson,Raul Rodriguez Romeo,James Rose,Nick Ross,Eryn Roston,Alex Rothwell,Rajat Roy,Ryan Rubi,David Russell,Liam Russell,Stephanie Saillard,Freddy Salazar,Juan Salazar,Sam Salek,Juan-Luis Sanchez,Steven Sandles,Anthony Luigi Santoro,Joaquim Santos,Nico Scapel,Laurel Schneider,Romain Bivar Segurado,Prathap Sekar,Armando Sepulveda,Steve Sexton,Matthew Shaw,Ken Shimizu,David Shirk,Poya Shohani,Alfonso Sicilia,Andrew Silke,David Simpson,Kishore Singh,Nitin Singh,Matina Skouteri,Anthony Smith,Laurence Smith,Maxwell Smith,Max Solomon,Donia Sonkor,Henry South,Penn Stevens,Jamie R. Stewart,Jack Straw,Elwaleed Suliman,Sandy Sutherland,Alexander Swann,Anna Swift,Stefano Tabacco,Hollie Taylor,Mark Taylor,Vincent Techer,Jacob Telleen,Damien Thaller,Simon Thistlethwaite,Daniel Thompson,Ian P. Thompson,Michael Adam Thompson,Otto Thorbjørnsen,Gunnhildur Thorkelsdottir,Thanos Topouzis,Elena Topouzoglou,Andrea Tozzo,Gareth Tredrea,Kris Tucknott,Mark Tudor-Williams,Altug Tumer,Jonathan Turner,Matthew Twyford,Arda Uysal,Leigh van der Byl,John van Leeuwen,Lars Vanderbijl,Jim Vanns,Jon Veal,Dan Victoire,Duarte Victorino,Mathieu Vig,Lars Vinther,Maximilian-Gordon Vogt,Mark Wainwright,Alexis Wajsbrot,Andy Walker,Claire Walker,Fiona Walkinshaw,Nathan Walster,Adam Ward,Dan Warder,Tim Webber,Daphna Wegner,Holger Wenzl,Bernard Wicksteed,Max Williams,Susannah Marie Williams,Dan Wills,Mark Wilson,Sally Wilson,Katherine Wisdom,Jasmine Wong,Graham Wood,Tom Woodall,Joe Worthington,Wei Xing Yong,Natalie Young,Xavier Zahra,Christian Zeh,Valur Zophoníasson,Ajesh.k.t,Maria Asim Ali,Oliver Allen-Wielebnowski,John Anderholm,Richard Anderson,Arunraj,Stefan Ash,Davey Atkinson,Adam Azmy,Matthew Ball,Jesse Balodis,Hernan Barros,Peter Bartfay,Tyler Bartley,Eric Bates,Jeremy Bazin,Lizi Bedford,Olivier Beierlein,Amy Bentley,Siobhan Bentley,Rich Best,Moti Biran,Frederik Valentin Bjerre-Poulsen,Gabriel Blanco,Zachary Bloom,Daniel Borg,Chris Bouchard,Damien Bouvier,Louise Brand,Sheldon Brathwaite,Andrew Brittain,Bragi Brynjarsson,Marc Brzezicki,Daniel Buhigas,Charles Bunnag,Francesco Canonico,Francesco Capone,Marie Castrie,Anthony Chadwick,Mike Chambers,Kavitha Chockalingam,Hyemee Choi,Pranjal Choudhary,Sean Ip Fung Chun,Ross Clark,Emma Lian Cooper,Stephanie Cooper,Michael Crippin,John Cruise,James Cundill,Jose Augusto David,Cara Tallulha Davies,Jake Delaney,Emmanuel Delange,Rob Delicata,Varadraj Deorukhkar,Michael Dillon,Harriet Donington,Karen Elliott,Robin Emerson,Andrew Emmerson,Zsuzsanna Erdei,Fathima Feminò,Juan Flores,Steven Forrester,Carlos Fuensalida,Pawl Fulker,Aron Galabuzi,Eric Gambini,Anshul Gattani,Stephen George Jr.,Safiya Gili,Frederikke Glick,Rui Gomes,Alex Goodfellow,Luke Gray,Aoife Greenham,Benjamin Guy,Amélie Guyot,Charlie Habanananda,Stefan Habel,Faraz Hameed,Jon Hartley,Jason Hayes,Jeremy Hey,Leo Hills,Sean Robert Hogan,Levon Hudson,Umar Adam Aziz Hussain,Albena Ivanova,Carl Jackson,Sam Jackson,Gilbert James,Daniel Jeantou,Mikael Jaeger Jensen,Nicolas Joyen-Conseil,Gregory Kalaitzis,Matt Kasmir,Kat Kelly,Abhishek Janardan Kini,Niels Kleinheinz,Brandie Konopasek,Allie Koppel,Rohit Korgaonkar,Linda Hrönn Kristjánsdóttir,Alexander Kubinyi,Sean Lahiff,Alain Lalanne,Greg LaSalle,Delphine Laurent,Andrew Lawson,Charles Le Guen,Dora Schluttenhofer Lees,Duncan Lees,Chun Ho Ray Leung,David Lieberman,Gabriel Lopez,Gianluca Lopez,Lydia Lopez-Arteaga,Timmy Lundin,Sophie Luto,David Lyon,Philip Maddock,Rajendra Maharana,Tytus Majerski,Sandeep Mane,Chen Mao,Runyararo Mapfumo,Natanya Marks,Stephen Mascarenhas,Jemmel Matheson,Chiaki Matsubayashi,Dora Maud,Peregrine McCafferty,Ben McEwan,Andrew McGregor,Campbell McGrouther,Dan McRae,Joel Meire,Gus Melton,Simon Mercer,Adam Miels,Udit Mohan,Vashishta Mohit,Sandrine Moniez,Ramon Montoya Vozmediano,Victoria Mowlam,Atyeb Muneer,Patrick Muylkens,Danielle Nadal,Tristan Alice Nieto,Alena Nikitina,Ole-Aleksander Nordby,Sam Norman,Mariluz Noto,Luis Pages,Atul Palande,Prakash Parmar,Radhika Patel,Vishal Rajendra Patel,Miriam Pepper-Parsons,Melvin Pereira,Will Phillips,Marc Picco,Kevin Power,Daniel Pozo,Diego Prilusky,Richard Pring,Simon-Pierre Puech,Sinisa Radosavljevic,Adrian Raistrick,Chandraji Tharanga Rajakaruna,Janhavi Ramaswamy,Natwar singh Rathore,Florent Revel,Jonathan Rhodes,Diego Riestra,Troy Robinson,David Ross,Justin R. Rotolo,Rosi Ruiz,Jean-Marc Rulier,Marin Rymer,Alessandro Sabbioni,Jasdip Sagar,Alessandro Salis,Lucy Salter,Nathan Santell,Raphael Santos,Patrick Sarell,Deven Saxena,Chris B. Schnitzer,Katysha Seng,Roger Serrabassa Vilar,Felix Serwir,Nidhi Seth,Aatesh Shah,Jeszen Shih,Ian Simms,Craig Skerry,Glenn Snyder,Nick Soothill,Richard Sowerby,Clay Sparks,Deepak Surendran,Gaurav Sutar,Jeff Taylor,Paul Taylor,David Tesch,Andrew K. Thompson,Nick Thompson,Alan Tormey,Iva Trajkovic,Taylor Tulip-Close,Lee Twohey,Debesh Upadhyay,Pan Vafeiadis,Arturs Vaitilavics,Vladimir Valovic,John Van Der Zalm,Mohit Varde,Maggie Walby,Ruochen Wang,Chris Watts,Glenn Wells,Mark Wendell,Daniel Wennerholm,Christoph Westphal,Rachel Wheeler,Kenneth H. Wiatrak,Guido Wilden,Stephen Willey,Robert A. Willis,Julia Zahner,Jennie Zeiher
Stunts	Gary Arthurs,Shelly Benison,Nellie Burroughes,Stephanie Carey,Juliette Cheveley,David Cronnelly,Mark Henson,Paul Kennington,Kim McGarrity,Belinda McGinley,Jo McLaren,Casey Michaels,Sian Milne,James O Donnell,Bean Peel,Diz Sharpe,Andy Smart,Arran Topham,Juliette Cheveley,Greg Dela Riva,Mike Martinez,Andy Smart
Camera and Electrical Department	George Bird,Melissa Byers,Kevin Edland,Pat Garrett,Dean Georgopoulos,Jamie Harcourt,Dermot Hickey,John Higgins,Darren Howton,Dora Krolikowska,Wayne Leach,Peter Marsden,Carl Martin,Stephen Mathie,Terry May,Phil Murray,Bernard O Brien,Ashley Palin,Tony Rowland,Scott Russell,Michael Seresin,Dan Soave,Brian Taylor,Peter Taylor,Olly Tellett,Alf Tramontin,Dan Travers,Tom Wade,Jack Warrender,Susie Allnutt,Dave Armstrong,Simon Baker,Hatti Beanland,Louise Ben-Nathan,Alex Bender,Neil Blackman,Alasdair Boyce,Robin Brigham,Hamish Doyne-Ditmas,Robert Eberlein,Chad Eshbaugh,Alex Golding,Robert Gray,Luke Andrew Haddock,Matthew Hall,Jay Hardie,Laura Jean Healey,Robert Hooven,Larry Hurt,Oliver Kellmann,Alison Lai,Genki McClure,Andrew Nolan,Gary Nolan,Nick Paige,Bernie Prentice,Ben Casciello Rogers,James Sams,David Schmalz,Stuart Sheppard,Robert Skinner,Paul Snell,Richard Thomas,Kirk Thornton,Michael Wacker,Nick Wall
Animation Department	Deven Saxena,Victor Glushchenko
Casting Department	Vilborg Einarsdottir,Kristjan Fridriksson
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Pierre Bohanna,Tamsin Flower,Jenny Hawkins,Jemma Jessup,Emily-Rose Yiaxis,Nicola Beales,Sallyann Dicksee
Editorial Department	Siobhan Boyes,Leon Buckley,Marc Dando,Ian Dobbs,James Eggleton,Ross Fall,Greg Fisher,Gonzalo García Barcha,Tania Goding,Alastair Grimshaw,Todd Kleparski,Piers Leighton,Peter Marsden,Steven Mates,Rob May,Ben Perry,Laura Redpath,Debs Richardson,Steven J. Scott,Dominic Thomson,Daniel André,Dan Dolan,Valance Eisleben,Alex Fenn,Tom Forletta,Alex Gilbert,JoAnne Ji Kim,Ross Miltenberg,Wes Nike,Daniel Paress,Jim Passon,Sherri Potter,Adrian Raistrick,Tashi Trieu,Tim Weyers
Location Management	Ann Lukacs,Lauren Ross,David Seaton
Music Department	Geoff Alexander,Pete Anthony,Jeff Atmajian,Robin Baynton,Susie Bench,Christopher Benstead,Richard Bissill,Reid Bruton,David Butterworth,Elin Carlson,David Channing,Alvin Chea,Gareth Cousins,Andrew Dudman,Katherine Ellis,Haley Glennie-Smith,William Kenneth Goldman,Jenny Graham,Mark Graham,Lisa Hannigan,Stephan Harms,Ayana Haviv,Greg Hayes,Martin Hollis,The Hollywood Studio Symphony,Toby Hulbert,Laura Jackman,Lewis Jones,Matt Jones,Roger Julià-Satorra,Joe Kearns,Joanna Forbes L Estrange,Roger Linley,Greg Loskorn,Steve Mair,Dario Marianelli,David Marquette,Everton Nelson,Sam Okell,Seda Ozen,Victor Pesavento,Tom Pigott Smith,Dennis S. Sands,Jason Savory,Steven L. Smith,Sally Stevens,Todd Strange,James Thatcher,John Ashton Thomas,Booker White,Warren Zielinski,Joe Zimmerman,Gina Zimmitti,Mark Berrow,Daniel Bhattacharya,Rachel Bolt,Grace Davidson,Alejandro de la Llosa,Alastair King,Jill Streater,Andrew Townend,Allen Walley,Bruce White
Script and Continuity Department	Laura Miles,George Clooney
Transportation Department	Mark Dilliway,D Aldo Fazzone,Jerry Hamshar,Simon Jones,Danny Mitchell,Jim Petti,David Rosenbaum,Chris Uren
Additional Crew	Betty Ainslie,Ruth Antoine,Simone Ayesa,Kevin Baulcomb,Maggie Biggar,Mikey Brett,Chorley Bunce,George Campbell,Glenn Diot,Shannon Elphick,Dann Fink,Johnny Gayner,Robin Guiver,Andy Hennigan,Annie Hitchcock,Sammy Horton,Amy Irvine,Craig Jamieson,Francesca Jaynes,Mark Kingston,Sara Krieger,Cameron Lawther,Avye Leventis,Phoebe Vale Markham,Aaron Matthews,Angel McConnell,Stephen McConnell,Fiona May McLaren,Al Nedjari,Kiattiyot Panichprecha,Dilip Patel,Chris Popham,John Ray,Frances Richardson,Valerie Rosewell,Cenay Said,Sam Saunders,Jonathan Scott,David A. Smith,Lisa Stone,Andrew Thomas,Ben Thompson,Gemma Todd Smithers,Peter Weireter,Bruce Winant,Alison Winter,Oliver Wiseman,Tom Woods,Deone Zanotto,Giovanni Zeqireya,Janis Ahern,India Barnardo,Samantha Bennett,Thom Berryman,Kate Braithwaite,Kriss TheDish Brown,Mark Capaldi,Nick Corbett,Phil Costello,Tylie Cox,Laura Cubitt,Alejandro de la Llosa,Danny de Warren,Andrew Ellinas,Scott Ennis,Alyssa Feener,Justine Gamez,Sasha Gibson,Kevin R. Grazier,Jason Huberman,Catherine P. Jackson,Adam Lawrence,Jared James McKerron,Lee Moulds,David Murrell,Richard Neale,Alana Newell,Declan O Brien,Maureen O Malley,Paulette Osorio,Marc Page,Emily Patt,Sarah Perry,Michael Roccuzzo,Emma Siegel,Rob Silva,Gina Soliz,Lisa Wakeley,Richard Wild,Jhonny Zurita
Thanks	James Cameron,Guillermo del Toro,David Fincher,Alejandro G. Iñárritu,Ryan McGuire,Robert Richardson,Timothy J. Sexton,Fred Waldman,Martin Wickman,Bobby Wotherspoon
Genres	Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Companies	Warner Bros., Esperanto Filmoj, Heyday Films
Countries	UK, USA
Languages	English, Greenlandic
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	7.7
ImDbRatingVotes	820578
MetacriticRating	96
Keywords	space station,female protagonist,sole survivor,long take,self sacrifice