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===Accolades=== ''The Rock'' won several minor awards, including 'Best On-Screen Duo' for Connery and Cage at the [[MTV Movie Awards]]. It was also nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Sound]] ([[Kevin O'Connell (sound mixer)|Kevin O'Connell]], [[Greg P. Russell]] and [[Keith A. Wester]]).<ref name="Oscars1997">{{Cite web | url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/69th-winners.html | title=The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners | date=March 24, 1997 | access-date=February 24, 2013 | publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] | archive-date=October 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006125019/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/69th-winners.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The film was selected for a limited edition DVD release by the [[Criterion Collection]], a distributor of primarily [[arthouse]] films it categorizes as "important classic and contemporary films" and "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of ''The Rock'', [[Roger Ebert]], who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film 3 1/2 out of four stars, calling it "an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.criterion.com/films/649 | title=The Rock | author=Roger Ebert | author-link=Roger Ebert | date=March 12, 2001 | publisher=The Criterion Collection | access-date=February 18, 2020 | archive-date=August 9, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809043151/https://www.criterion.com/films/649 | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2014, ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-action-movies|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|title=The 100 best action movies|access-date=November 7, 2014|archive-date=November 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106073021/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-action-movies|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Rock'' was listed at 74th place on the list.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-action-movies-80-71|work=Time Out|access-date=November 7, 2014|title=The 100 best action movies: 80-71|archive-date=November 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107152229/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-action-movies-80-71|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, Tom Reimann from Collider ranked ''The Rock'' as Bay's best film and "a perfect snapshot of the height of 90s action movies".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reimann|first=Tom|date=2019-12-13|title=Every Michael Bay Movie Ranked from Worst to Best|url=https://collider.com/michael-bay-movies-ranked-worst-to-best/|access-date=2020-09-21|website=Collider|language=en-US|archive-date=December 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214132938/https://collider.com/michael-bay-movies-ranked-worst-to-best/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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