"Hunt Productions. With dialogue in Mandarin, subtitled for various markets, ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million worldwide. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film produced overseas in American history. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" received universal critical acclaim. The film has won over 40 awards. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan), Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography. The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Foreign Film. Along with"
"of the Academy, and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. ""Gladiator"" received the most nominations with twelve. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 2001. ""Gladiator"" became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since 1949's ""All the King's Men"". Best Director winner Steven Soderbergh, who received nominations for both ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" (for which he won the award), was the third person to receive double directing nominations in the same year. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became the third film nominated"
"Sound (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song. Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart and the make-up artists were the three nominees that did not win. James Cameron's original screenplay and Leonardo DiCaprio were not nominees. It was the second film to receive eleven Academy Awards, after ""Ben-Hur"". """" would also match this record in 2004. ""Titanic"" won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as three Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture"
"2001. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 1, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Kate Hudson. ""Chicago"" won six awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Pianist"" with three awards, ""Frida"" and """" with two, and ""Adaptation"", ""Bowling for Columbine"", ""The ChubbChubbs!"", ""8 Mile"", ""The Hours"", ""Nowhere in Africa"", ""Road to Perdition"", ""Spirited Away"", ""Talk to Her"", ""This Charming Man"", and ""Twin Towers"" with one. The telecast garnered about 33 million viewers in the United States, making it the least watched and lowest"
"55th British Academy Film Awards The 55th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 24 February 2002 and honoured the best films of 2001. """" won Best Film, Best Director for Peter Jackson, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Visual Effects. Russell Crowe won Best Actor for ""A Beautiful Mind"", which also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly. Judi Dench won Best Actress for ""Iris"" and Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor for ""Moulin Rouge!"". ""Gosford Park"", directed by Robert Altman, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2001. After"
"won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional seven, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director for Ridley Scott. It was the first movie to win Best Picture without winning either a directing or screenwriting award since ""All the King's Men"" at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950. In 2003, ""Chicago"" became another Best Picture winner which didn't win an Academy Award in either of these two major categories. Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the"
"its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, and provocatively ambiguous imagery and sound in place of traditional narrative techniques. Despite receiving mixed reviews upon release, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" is today thought by some critics to be one of the greatest films ever made and is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction films of all time. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, and received one for visual effects. It also won the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Director and Best Film awards of 1968. In 1991, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was deemed culturally significant by the"
"awards ceremony on February 29, 2004. With eleven awards, ""The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic"" as the most awarded films in Oscar history. Moreover, its clean sweep of its eleven nominations surpassed ""Gigi"" and ""The Last Emperor""'s nine awards for the largest sweep for a single film in Oscar history. The film was also the tenth film to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Best Director nominee Sofia Coppola became the first American woman and third woman overall to be nominated in that category. By virtue of her father, Francis"
"are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century. ""The Sound of Music"" was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since ""Hamlet""; it would be the last until ""Titanic"" at the 70th Academy Awards. ""Othello"" became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George"
"Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Renée Zellweger. ""Gladiator"" won five awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" and ""Traffic"" with four awards, and ""Almost Famous"", ""Big Mama"", ""Erin Brockovich"", ""Father and Daughter"", ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"", """", ""Pollock"", ""Quiero ser (I want to be...)"", ""U-571"", and ""Wonder Boys"" with one. The telecast garnered almost 43 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 73rd Academy Awards were announced on February 13, 2001, by Robert Rehme, president"
"also treats the film throughout as effectively a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Other scholarly treatments of Kubrick largely ignore the film. All of Stanley Kubrick's films from ""Paths of Glory"" until the end of his career, except for ""The Shining"", were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards, in various categories. ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" received numerous technical awards, including a BAFTA Award for cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which Kubrick (as director of special effects on the film) received. This was Kubrick's only personal Academy Award win among 13"
"this during the Oscar ceremony, host Whoopi Goldberg remarked, ""I guess ""Moulin Rouge!"" just directed itself."" The film won the awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction. ""Come What May"" (the only original song in the film) was disqualified from nomination for an Oscar because it was originally written (but unused) for Luhrmann's previous film ""Romeo + Juliet"" and not written expressly for ""Moulin Rouge!"". ""Entertainment Weekly"" put it on its end-of-the-decade, ""best-of"" list, saying, ""Baz Luhrmann's trippy pop culture pastiche from 2001 was an aesthetically arresting ode to poetry, passion, and Elton John. It was so good,"
"earlier in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 10, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Maggie Gyllenhaal. ""The Departed"" won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorsese. Other winners included ""Pan's Labyrinth"" with three, ""An Inconvenient Truth"", ""Dreamgirls"" and ""Little Miss Sunshine"" with two, and ""Babel"", ""The Blood of Yingzhou District"", ""The Danish Poet"", ""Happy Feet"", ""The Last King of Scotland"", ""Letters from Iwo Jima"", ""The Lives of Others"", ""Marie Antoinette"", """", ""The Queen"" and ""West Bank Story"" with one. The telecast garnered nearly"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included ""Glory"" with three awards, ""Born on the Fourth of July"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and ""My Left Foot"" with two, and ""The Abyss"", ""Balance"", ""Batman"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", """", ""Dead Poets Society"", ""Henry V"", ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", ""The Johnstown Flood"", and ""Work Experience"""
"1999. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron. ""A Beautiful Mind"" won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard. Other winners included """" also with four awards, ""Black Hawk Down"", and ""Moulin Rouge!"" with two, and ""The Accountant"", ""For the Birds"", ""Gosford Park"", ""Iris"", ""Monster's Ball"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Murder on a Sunday Morning"", ""No Man's Land"", ""Pearl Harbor"", ""Shrek"", ""Thoth"", and ""Training Day"", with one. Despite a record length of four"
"Twin ironies by which great saints are made, The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven."" </poem> 55th British Academy Film Awards The 55th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 24 February 2002 and honoured the best films of 2001. """" won Best Film, Best Director for Peter Jackson, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Visual Effects. Russell Crowe won Best Actor for ""A Beautiful Mind"", which also won Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Connelly. Judi Dench won Best Actress for ""Iris"" and Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor for ""Moulin Rouge!""."
"2007, ""The Departed"" won four Academy Awards: Best Picture (Graham King), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Best Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan). Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, but he lost to Alan Arkin for his role in ""Little Miss Sunshine"". The film marked the first time Scorsese won an Oscar after six previous losses. Many felt that he deserved it years earlier for prior efforts. Some have even gone further, calling it a Lifetime Achievement Award for a lesser film. Scorsese himself joked that he won because:"
"2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's short story ""The Sentinel"". A , written concurrently with the screenplay, was published soon after the film was released. The film, which follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution, deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The film is noted"
"of ""Moulin Rouge!"") and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (ceding to the score of ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon""). The 2001 official soundtrack album did not include all of the music from the film, and several cues were conspicuously absent. A promotion-only release of the complete soundtrack was created for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that were responsible for voting for the award for Best Original Score. This version of the soundtrack later leaked to the public, and has been issued in several bootleg editions by various record labels. Then, in"
"held in 1990 and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony held in 2000. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 14, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jennifer Garner. """" won all eleven awards it was nominated for, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic""), including Best Director for Peter Jackson and Best Picture. Other winners included """" and ""Mystic River"" with two awards and ""The Barbarian Invasions"", ""Chernobyl Heart"", ""Cold Mountain"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""The Fog of War:"
"Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. ""Rebecca"" was the first American-made film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the only film from him to win Best Picture. Hitchcock had two films nominated for Best Picture, the other being ""Foreign Correspondent"". Two other directors also had two films in the running this year: Sam Wood (""Our Town"" and ""Kitty Foyle"") and John Ford (""The Long Voyage Home"" and ""The Grapes of Wrath"", which won Best Director). ""Pinocchio"" was the first animated film to take home competitive Oscars, for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song, starting a long"
"– """" ""' Ben Kingsley – ""Sexy Beast"" ""' Jennifer Connelly – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' James Franco – ""James Dean"" ""' Judy Davis – """" 7th Critics' Choice Awards The 7th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2002, honoring the finest achievements of 2001 filmmaking. ""' Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' ""Shrek"" ""' ""Gosford Park"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""I Am Sam"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Ron Howard – ""A Beautiful Mind"" (TIE) ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" (TIE) ""' ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's"
"the $68 million film earned a gross domestic box office take of $71,107,711. Combined with the international box office, the worldwide total is $113,579,918. Angela Bassett won a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her portrayal of DeNiro's girlfriend, Diane. The Score (2001 film) The Score is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett and Marlon Brando in his final film role. It was the only time that Brando and De Niro appeared onscreen together. The screenplay was based on a story"
"Film Oscar. Morricone received a BAFTA award with his son Andrea, and a David di Donatello for his score. In 2002, the director's cut 173-minute version was released (known in the U.S. as Cinema Paradiso: The New Version). After the success of ""Cinema Paradiso"", the composer wrote the music for all subsequent films by Tornatore: the drama film ""Everybody's Fine"" (Stanno Tutti Bene, 1990), ""A Pure Formality"" (1994) starring Gérard Depardieu and Roman Polanski, ""The Star Maker"" (1995), ""The Legend of 1900"" (1998) starring Tim Roth, the 2000 romantic drama ""Malèna"" (which featured Monica Bellucci) and the psychological thriller mystery"
"2001 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 36th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 2002, honored the best in film for 2001. 1. Mulholland Drive<br> 2. ""Gosford Park""<br> 3. """" 1. Robert Altman – ""Gosford Park""<br> 2. David Lynch – ""Mulholland Drive""<br> 3. Peter Jackson – """" 1. Gene Hackman – ""The Royal Tenenbaums""<br> 2. Denzel Washington – ""Training Day""<br> 3. Tom Wilkinson – ""In the Bedroom"" 1. Naomi Watts – ""Mulholland Drive""<br> 2. Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom""<br> 3. Charlotte Rampling – ""Under the Sand"" (""Sous le sable"") 1. Steve Buscemi – ""Ghost"
"nominations in a single acting category). Between the two of them, father and son Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola won four awards, with Carmine winning for Best Original Dramatic Score (with Nino Rota) and Francis for Picture, Director, and Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material (with Mario Puzo). This was the only Oscars where all nominees in one category were released by the same studio: all five Best Costume Design nominations were for films released by Paramount Pictures. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). These films had multiple nominations: The following films"
"The film received four Academy Award nominations for the 69th Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Tim Harvey), Best Costume Design (Alexandra Byrne), Best Original Score (Patrick Doyle), and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (Kenneth Branagh). The film follows the plot of the original play, and is the first adaptation to have the complete original text. Aspects of the film's staging are based on Adrian Noble's recent Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play, in which Branagh had played the title role. The film uses a conflated text based on the 1623 First Folio, with additions from the Second Quarto and"
"and on TV. I suspect it finally made more money than any other picture I made."" Intrada Records released an album featuring a 1995 re-recording of the film's score. The re-recording was performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Bruce Broughton. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture. Brando's nomination was his third consecutive for Best Actor, following 1951's"
"winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Awards for both Best Song Written for Visual Media and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The soundtrack was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the soundtrack was re-released as a ""Special Edition"" to coincide with the IMAX re-issue of the film and the two-disc Platinum Edition. The new release featured the film version of ""Transformation"", which had been replaced with an early unused version in some early pressings, the newly animated"
"""Traffic"" Julie Walters – ""Billy Elliot"" The Perfect Storm 54th British Academy Film Awards The 54th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 25 February 2001 and honoured the best films of 2000. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won Best Film, while Ang Lee won Best Director for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"". ""Billy Elliot"" was voted Best British Film of 2000, and the film's lead actor, Jamie Bell, won Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, Julia Roberts won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her"
"Kubrick, who was a master cinematographer, director, and producer. Kubrick promoted Alcott to lighting cameraman in 1968 while working on ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" and from there the two created an inseparable collaboration, in which they worked together on more than one occasion. In 1971, Kubrick then elevated Alcott to director of photography on ""A Clockwork Orange"" which was nominated for four Academy Awards in ""Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay"", and ""Best Film Editing"", however the film did not win in any category. Alcott studied lighting and how the light fell in the rooms of a set. He"
"""The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time"". The film won an honorary Academy Award for John Chambers for his outstanding make-up achievement. The film was nominated for Best Costume Design (Morton Haack) and Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) (Jerry Goldsmith). The score is known for its avant-garde compositional techniques, as well as the use of unusual percussion instruments and extended performance techniques, as well as his 12-note music (the violin part using all 12 chromatic notes) to give an eerie, unsettled feel to the planet, mirroring the sense of placelessness. Writer Rod Serling was brought"
"won three Academy Awards: Best Actress (Holly Hunter), Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin) and Best Original Screenplay (Jane Campion). Anna Paquin was the second youngest person (after Tatum O'Neal) to win an Academy Award. The score for the film was written by Michael Nyman, and included the acclaimed piece ""The Heart Asks Pleasure First""; additional pieces were ""Big My Secret"", ""The Mood That Passes Through You"", ""Silver Fingered Fling"", ""Deep Sleep Playing"" and ""The Attraction of the Peddling Ankle"". This album is rated in the top 100 soundtrack albums of all time and Nyman's work is regarded as a key"