Data Issues & Policy Discussions

IMDb used to have a newsletter, and the mid-April 1997 issue contained an item titled "The Great ISO Swap" reporting that IMDb had implemented the ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin-1) character set, allowing names and titles to use all the common letters with diacritical marks of the major Western

I wrote a silly review for a silly film but said review was Declined! This isn't the first time I've hurt someone's feelings but I would like clarity on what words/sections caused the decline. 251222-202502-491021

I was looking for info on some previous Oscar winners in the Awards Central, but had very strange listings, like Ray Milland winning Best Actor Oscar in 1998, 1997 and 1996, just to mention one example. All the listings seem totally messed up. What is happening here?

Hi IMDb team, wish you Happy New Year. Just to inform that festival named: Winter Film Festival (listed as Winter Film Awards) have different website now. Currently its https://winterfilmfest.org/ and at event page is www.WinterFilmAwards.com which doesnt work. It is the same New York festival, now

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Back in September 2025, I tried to make an edit to the TV series The Chosen to add an actor that appeared in 4 episodes of the newest season and this was not reflected on the actor's IMDB page.My edit was declined with the reason being they could not verify it and that I should provide an image of t

Hi, I lost my cast editing privileges (as in i cant edit IMDB cast lists) is there a way to get them back? Do i need to write an appolgy to the IMDB people or something thanks.

I've twice tried deleting the plot outline of Skazka (2022), which just says "Plot under wraps," and been rejected both times, first as "Factually incorrect" and then as "Does not meet contribution guidelines" (220817-220402-134000, 220827-001418-037000). Not only is "Plot under wraps" not a plot ou

My film Paul and Greg and Amelia wrapped in July 2024, but postproduction took much longer than expected. I listed the original release date as May of 2025 but that has been changed. I've tried a million times to get it changed and it seems like an easy fix, but apparently, it's not.

I'm an actor and director Artem GrotIn IMDb system, there are two different pages associated with my identity.https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm7913239/?ref_=nm_rvi_t_2https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm8882536/?ref_=nm_rvi_t_2 I need to combine them into one page with my corect name as my passport Artem G