Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit (section)

==Reception==
===Critical response===
''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' received near-universal acclaim from critics, making ''[[Business Insider]]''{{'}}s "best comedy movies of all time, according to critics" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/best-comedy-movies-all-time-critics-2018-3|last=Lynch|first=John|date=March 16, 2018|title=The 100 best comedy movies of all time, according to critics|work=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=July 27, 2019|archive-date=July 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727223226/https://www.businessinsider.com/best-comedy-movies-all-time-critics-2018-3|url-status=live}}</ref> Review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on 76 reviews, and an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is an innovative and entertaining film that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/who_framed_roger_rabbit/ | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] | date = June 21, 1988 | publisher = [[Flixster]] | access-date = October 15, 2020 | archive-date = September 30, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200930193220/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/who_framed_roger_rabbit | url-status = live }}</ref> Aggregator [[Metacritic]] has calculated a [[weighted average]] score of 83 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.metacritic.com/movie/who-framed-roger-rabbit/critic-reviews | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): Reviews | work = [[Metacritic]] | publisher = [[CBS Interactive]] | access-date = November 1, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040311230559/http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/whoframedrogerrabbit/|archive-date=March 11, 2004|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' was placed on 43 critics' top ten lists, third to only [[The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)|''The Thin Blue Line'']] and ''[[Bull Durham]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGilligan |first1=Pat |last2=Rowland |first2=Mark |title=100 Film Critics Can't Be Wrong, Can They? : The critics' consensus choice for the 'best' movie of '88 is . . . a documentary! |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-257-story.html |access-date=June 27, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 8, 1989 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308123835/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-257-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 20, 2018|title=Cinemascore :: Movie Title Search|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|access-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|archive-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last-- a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera." He writes that the opening cartoon is "a masterpiece; I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at an animated short. But then when a stunt goes wrong and the cartoon 'baby' stalks off the set and lights a cigar and tells the human director to go to hell, we know we're in a new and special universe."<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Roger Ebert | first = Roger | last = Ebert | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[Chicago Sun-Times]] | date = June 22, 1988 | access-date = March 23, 2021 | archive-date = April 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210413104818/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' praised the film's "dazzling, jaw-dropping opening four-minute sequence"; he noted that the sequence alone took nearly nine months to animate.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Siskel|first1=Gene|title=Tooned In|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160723/gene-siskel-on-who-framed-roger/|access-date=March 23, 2021|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|volume=142|issue=185|date=July 3, 1988|page=59|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211036/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160723/gene-siskel-on-who-framed-roger/|url-status=live}}</ref> Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Siskel|first1=Gene|title=Siskel's Flicks Picks|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160932/gene-siskels-35-star-review-of-who/|access-date=March 23, 2021|work=Chicago Tribune|volume=142|issue=344|date=December 9, 1988|page=179|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211001/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74160932/gene-siskels-35-star-review-of-who/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ebert and his colleague Siskel spent a considerable amount of time in the ''[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|Siskel & Ebert]]'' episode in which they reviewed the film analyzing its painstaking filmmaking.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit/Aria/The Great Outdoors |series=Siskel & Ebert & the Movies |first1=Roger |last1=Ebert |first2=Gene |last2=Siskel |network=Syndicated |date=June 25, 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwyuw7igyk |access-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109013728/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwyuw7igyk&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> In evaluating their top ten films of the year, Siskel ranked it number two<ref>{{cite news |title=TOP TEN MOVIES: 1969-1998 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-10-15-9910200020-story.html |access-date=March 23, 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 15, 1999 |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105043457/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-10-15-9910200020-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while Ebert ranked it as number eight.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ebert | first=Roger | date=December 31, 1988 | title=The Best 10 Movies of 1988 | publisher=Roger Ebert's Journal | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-10-movies-of-1988 | access-date=August 3, 2016 | archive-date=July 25, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725093123/http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-10-movies-of-1988 | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' commented that this is "a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed."<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Janet Maslin | first = Janet | last = Maslin | title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit | work = [[The New York Times]] | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/22/movies/review-film-new-laws-of-gravity-twist-humor-too-in-roger-rabbit.html | date = June 22, 1988 | access-date = June 7, 2012 | archive-date = May 25, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150525091220/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/22/movies/review-film-new-laws-of-gravity-twist-humor-too-in-roger-rabbit.html | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Desson Thomson]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' considered ''Roger Rabbit'' to be "a definitive collaboration of pure talent. Zemeckis had Walt Disney Pictures' enthusiastic backing, producer Steven Spielberg's pull, Warner Bros.'s blessing, Canadian animator Richard Williams' ink and paint, [[Mel Blanc]]'s voice; [[Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman]]'s witty, frenetic screenplay; [[George Lucas]]' Industrial Light and Magic, and Bob Hoskins' comical performance as the burliest, shaggiest private eye."<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Desson Thomson |first=Desson |last=Thomson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whoframedrogerrabbitpghowe_a0b16f.htm |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=June 24, 1988 |access-date=November 1, 2008 |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111130734/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whoframedrogerrabbitpghowe_a0b16f.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Gene Shalit]] on the ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today Show]]'' also praised the film, calling it "one of the most extraordinary movies ever made".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVLnju0xq0 |title=Roger Rabbit TV spot |website=[[YouTube]] |date=June 27, 2010 |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715192028/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVLnju0xq0&feature=youtu.be |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Filmsite.org]] called it "a technically-marvelous film" and a "landmark" that resulted from "unprecedented cooperation" between Warner Bros. and Disney.<ref>[https://www.filmsite.org/whof.html AMC Filmsite: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106232834/https://www.filmsite.org/whof.html |date=November 6, 2020 }} Retrieved December 15, 2014</ref> On [[CNN]]'s 2019 miniseries ''[[The Movies (miniseries)|The Movies]]'', [[Tom Hanks]] called it the "most complicated movie ever made."<ref>{{cite web | last=Croot | first=James | date=October 20, 2019 | title=The Movies: Why you need to see Tom Hanks' impressive chronicle of US cinema | publisher=[[Stuff (company)|stuff]] | url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116274917/the-movies-why-you-need-to-see-tom-hanks-impressive-chronicle-of-us-cinema | access-date=May 2, 2021 | archive-date=May 2, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502203820/https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116274917/the-movies-why-you-need-to-see-tom-hanks-impressive-chronicle-of-us-cinema | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Richard Corliss]], a writer for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', said, "The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it". Corliss was mainly annoyed by the [[Homage (arts)|homages]] to the [[Golden Age of American animation]].<ref>{{cite news | author-link = Richard Corliss | first = Richard | last = Corliss | title = Creatures of A Subhuman Species | url = https://time.com/archive/6712601/cinema-creatures-of-a-subhuman-species-who-framed-roger-rabbit/ | format = Registration required to read article | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = June 27, 1988 | access-date = November 1, 2008 | archive-date = July 14, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714045504/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967766,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Chuck Jones]] made a rather scathing attack on the film in his book ''Chuck Jones Conversations''. Among his complaints, Jones accused Zemeckis of robbing Richard Williams of any creative input and ruining the piano duel that both Williams and he storyboarded.<ref>{{cite book | last=Furniss | first=Maureen | author-link=Maureen Furniss | date=2005 | title=Chuck Jones: Conversations | pages=152–153 | series=Conversations with Comic Artists | location=Jackson, Miss. | publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] | isbn=1-578067-2-86}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[61st Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| Art Direction: [[Elliot Scott]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Peter Howitt (set decorator)|Peter Howitt]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="7"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |title=The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners |access-date=July 31, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502001817/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Dean Cundey]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Arthur Schmidt (film editor)|Arthur Schmidt]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Robert Knudson]], [[John Boyd (sound engineer)|John Boyd]], [[Don Digirolamo]], and [[Tony Dawe]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound Editing|Best Sound Effects Editing]]
| [[Charles L. Campbell]] and [[Louis Edemann]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| [[Ken Ralston]], [[Richard Williams (animator)|Richard Williams]], [[Edward Jones (visual effects artist)|Edward Jones]], and [[George Gibbs (special effects artist)|George Gibbs]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Special Achievement Academy Award|Special Achievement Award]]
| Richard Williams
| {{won}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| Arthur Schmidt
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Annie Awards]]
| Best Individual Achievement: Technical Achievement
| Richard Williams
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[BMI Film & TV Awards]]
| Film Music Award
| [[Alan Silvestri]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1988|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| Special Award
| Richard Williams
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1980s/ |title=BSFC Winners: 1980s |website=[[Boston Society of Film Critics]] |date=July 27, 2018 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[42nd British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| [[Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="5"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1989/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1989 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1989 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1989}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Dean Cundey
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
| Arthur Schmidt
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
| Elliot Scott
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| George Gibbs, Richard Williams, Ken Ralston, and Edward Jones
| {{won}}
|-
| [[British Society of Cinematographers#Award categories|British Society of Cinematographers Awards]]
| [[British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film|Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film]]
| Dean Cundey
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://bscine.com/media/uploads/awards/bsc-cinematography-feature-film.pdf?v |title=Best Cinematography in Feature Film |access-date=June 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604021621/https://bscine.com/media/uploads/awards/bsc-cinematography-feature-film.pdf?v |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists|Cahiers du Cinéma]]
| Best Film
| rowspan="3"| [[Robert Zemeckis]]
| {{draw|5th Place}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[14th César Awards|César Awards]]
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academie-cinema.org/evenements/ceremonie-des-cesar-1989/ |title=The 1989 Caesars Ceremony |publisher=[[César Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1988|Chicago Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/1988-97|title=Chicago Film Critics Awards – 1988–97|publisher=[[Chicago Film Critics Association]]|access-date=21 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422075211/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/1988-97|archive-date=22 April 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| Best Foreign Producer
| [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]] and [[Robert Watts]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[41st Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1980s/1988.aspx?value=1988|title=41st DGA Awards |website=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[DVD Exclusive Awards]]
| Best Menu Design
| John Ross
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Evening Standard British Film Awards#1988 Winners|Evening Standard British Film Awards]]
| Best Actor
| [[Bob Hoskins]] {{small|(also for ''[[The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne]]'')}}
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[46th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/who-framed-roger-rabbit |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=July 10, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1989}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Bob Hoskins
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Motion Picture Sound Editors#Golden Reel Awards|Golden Reel Awards]]
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film|Best Sound Editing – ADR]]
| Larry Singer, Jessica Gallavan, Alan Nineberg, Charleen Richards, <br> and Lionel Strutt 
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| colspan="3"| [[Goldene Kamera|Golden Screen Awards]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[31st Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score <br> Written for a Motion Picture or Television]]
| ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit (soundtrack)|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' – Alan Silvestri
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/31st-annual-grammy-awards |title=31st Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| [[Hugo Award]]s
| [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Best Dramatic Presentation]]
| Robert Zemeckis, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, and [[Gary K. Wolf]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1989-hugo-awards/ | work = The [[Hugo Award]]s | title = The Hugo Awards: 1989 | date = July 26, 2007 | access-date = November 1, 2008 | archive-date = June 12, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100612033831/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1989-hugo-awards/ | url-status = live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Jupiter Award (film award)#11th Jupiter Award / 1989|Jupiter Awards]]
| Best International Film
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[1989 Kids' Choice Awards|Kids' Choice Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie|Favorite Movie]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[1988 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]]
| Special Citation
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1988.php |title=The 14th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |website=[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Film Hall of Fame: Productions
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Productions |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511220305/http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sant Jordi Awards]]
| Best Foreign Film
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="8"| [[16th Saturn Awards|Saturn Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film|Best Fantasy Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="8"| <ref>{{cite web|title=Past Saturn Awards |url=https://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |work=[[Saturn Award]]s Organization |access-date=November 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219234921/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |archive-date=December 19, 2008}}</ref>
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Bob Hoskins
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Christopher Lloyd]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Joanna Cassidy]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Writing|Best Writing]]
| Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Music|Best Music]]
| Alan Silvestri
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Special Effects|Best Special Effects]]
| George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, and Richard Williams
| {{won}}
|-
| [[45th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| Children and Cinema Award
| Robert Zemeckis
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americancinemapapers.com/files/VENICE_1988.htm|title=VENICE 1988 – THE 45TH VENICE FILM FESTIVAL|access-date=October 6, 2013}}</ref>
|-
| [[41st Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|title=Awards Winners|work=wga.org|publisher=Writers Guild of America|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|archive-date=2012-12-05|access-date=2010-06-06}}</ref>
|}