Best Environmental Disaster
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary examining climate change, directed by Fisher Stevens. The film features Leonardo DiCaprio and was produced through a collaborative effort involving several production companies and an executive producer, Martin Scorsese. It explores the issue of global warming...
The Aral Sea was a large saline lake in Central Asia between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Beginning in the 1960s, extensive diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for irrigation greatly reduced the water reaching the lake, causing major shrinkage, rising salinity, exposed seabed, and the sepa...
Why this score?
Once immense and globally significant, now consensus centers on catastrophic ecological disaster and severe loss.
Scoring methodology
On Deadly Ground is a 1994 action film directed by Steven Seagal, in which he portrays a firefighter confronting environmental damage perpetrated by his former employer. The movie, produced by Warner Bros., received negative critical reviews and achieved $78.1 million in worldwide box office revenue...
Geostorm presents a science fiction scenario where malfunctioning orbital satellites cause increasingly extreme weather patterns worldwide. The film explores humanity’s response to this escalating disaster, focusing on a team tasked with restoring control over these systems. It is relevant for audie...
