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Lincoln(2012)
Released
2012 · FILM

Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln battles relentless political sabotage and a ticking wartime clock to secure the Thirteenth Amendment before the Civil War ends, risking his legacy to ensure freedom endures.

“The hours that changed history.”

Directed by
Steven Speilberg, Steven Spielberg
Written by
Tony Kushner, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
150 min
BiographyDramaHistory

Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Born on February 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer and politician who rose to prominence through his debates with Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Senate campaign. Elected president in 1860, he led the nation through the American Civil War, preserving the Union and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held territory. Lincoln was re-elected in 1864 and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. He was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson. Lincoln is widely remembered for his leadership during a time of national crisis and for his efforts to end slavery in the United States.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael KahnShot by Janusz KaminskiScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Rick Carter

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$275.3M

Budget$65.0M
Worldwide gross$275.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $182.2M — 66% of worldwide · International: $93.1M (34%)

Opening weekend: $944K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 11 theaters

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Companies

ProductionDreamWorks Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Reliance Entertainment

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