"and ""Magnolia""). In 2006, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay number 38 on its list of the 101 greatest screenplays. Annotations Footnotes Bibliography American Beauty (1999 film) American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature film directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). Annette Bening co-stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper,"
"Beautiful (2000 film) Beautiful is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Sally Field (in her feature film directorial debut), starring Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Herta Ware, and Kathleen Turner. The plot deals with the sacrifices that contestants in the Miss America pageant typically must make. The film was both a critical and a commercial failure. Mona Hibbard (Driver) is a young woman from a troubled home who has one overarching goal: to become the winner of the Miss America pageant. Her mother is an alcoholic who graduates from berating her young daughter for not doing"
"but while the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized ""American Beauty"", they gave their top awards to other films. By the end of the year, reports of a critical backlash suggested ""American Beauty"" was the underdog in the race for Best Picture; however, at the Golden Globe Awards in January 2000, ""American Beauty"" won Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. As the nominations for the 72nd Academy Awards approached, a frontrunner had not emerged. DreamWorks had launched a major campaign for ""American Beauty"" five weeks before"
"representative announced on 15 March 2010 that ""they separated earlier this year"". The couple were divorced in 2011. Mendes married trumpeter Alison Balsom in January 2017, their daughter Phoebe Mendes was born in September 2017. Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the"
"several voters who were in attendance. In February 2000, ""American Beauty"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards; its closest rivals, ""The Cider House Rules"" and ""The Insider"", received seven nominations each. In March 2000, the major industry labor organizations all awarded their top honors to ""American Beauty""; perceptions had shifted—the film was now the favorite to dominate the Academy Awards. ""American Beauty""s closest rival for Best Picture was still ""The Cider House Rules"", from Miramax. Both studios mounted aggressive campaigns; DreamWorks bought 38% more advertising space in ""Variety"" than Miramax. On March 26, 2000, ""American Beauty"" won five Academy Awards:"
"American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original score for the 1999 film composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of ""The Red Violin"") and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Legend of 1900""), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media in 2001 which"
"and the Sea"", ""One Day in September"", ""The Red Violin"", ""Sleepy Hollow"", and ""Tarzan"" with one. The telecast garnered almost 47 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 72nd Academy Awards were announced on February 15, 2000, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and the actor Dustin Hoffman. ""American Beauty"" received the most nominations with eight total; ""The Cider House Rules"" and ""The Insider"" tied for second with seven nominations each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March"
"Picture Academy Award in 2000 for producing ""American Beauty"". The film, which won a total of five Oscars, was the first film produced through The Jinks/Cohen Company. Their second film was the sex comedy ""Down with Love"" starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Next up was Tim Burton's ""Big Fish"", which was nominated as Best Picture for both the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. Other films include ""The Forgotten"", starring Julianne Moore, and John August's directing debut, ""The Nines"", starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy and Hope Davis. In television, Jinks and Cohen executive produced the acclaimed ABC series ""Pushing Daisies"","
"Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Spacey), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. At the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, ""American Beauty"" won six of the 14 awards for which it was nominated: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress (Bening), Best Cinematography, Best Film Music and Best Editing. In 2000, the Publicists Guild of America recognized DreamWorks for the best film publicity campaign. In September 2008, ""Empire"" named ""American Beauty"" the 96th ""Greatest Movie of All Time"" after a poll of 10,000 readers, 150 filmmakers, and 50 film critics, the fourth-highest ranked movie from 1999 (behind ""Fight Club"", ""The Matrix"","
"his review for the ""Chicago Sun-Times"", Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four and wrote: """"Beautiful"" should have gone through lots and lots more rewrites before it was imposed on audiences. It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence."" In addition, Ebert felt that Minnie Driver was miscast as Mona because she ""doesn't come across like the kind of person who could take beauty pageants seriously."" Beautiful (2000 film) Beautiful is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Sally Field (in"
"the box office. Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave ""American Beauty"" a ""B+"" grade on average. The theater count hit a high of 1,528 at the end of the month, before a gradual decline. Following ""American Beauty""s wins at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, DreamWorks re-expanded the theater presence from a low of 7 in mid-February, to a high of 1,990 in March. The film ended its North American theatrical run on June 4, 2000, having grossed $130.1 million. ""American Beauty"" had its European premiere at the London Film Festival on November 18, 1999; in January 2000,"
"Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals ""Cabaret"" (1994), ""Oliver!"" (1994), ""Company"" (1995), and """" (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2013). In 2000 Mendes was appointed"
"York. The cast included Bernadette Peters as Rose, Tammy Blanchard as Louise and John Dossett as Herbie. Mendes also directed the 2014 Olivier Award-nominated stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". Mendes directed Jez Butterworth's ""The Ferryman"" for the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2017, of which he won an Olivier Award for best director. In 1999 Mendes made his film directorial debut with ""American Beauty"", starring Kevin Spacey. The film grossed $356.3 million worldwide. The film won the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mendes won the Golden"
"53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Pedro Almodóvar, director of ""Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)"", won"
"Beauty (1998 film) Beauty is an American television film starring Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan and Hal Holbrook based on Susan Wilson's 1997 novel. It aired on CBS on October 25, 1998. The ""beauty"" is talented painter Alix Miller (Turner). Her father, Alexander (Holbrook), is scheduled to go to the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint a family portrait of the mysterious, reclusive author Lee Crompton (Sheridan), but he falls ill and cannot. Alix decides to take his place. Much to her shock, Lee is horribly disfigured from a disease called acromegaly. Still, she has an obligation and so"
"aviation and commercial flight travel"". American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original score for the 1999 film composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of ""The Red Violin"") and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Legend of 1900""), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other"
"""Certified Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 59 reviews with an average rating of 8.5/10; the site's consensus states that ""Director Billy Wilder's customary cynicism is leavened here by tender humor, romance, and genuine pathos."" ""The Apartment"" received 10 Academy Award nominations, and won 5 Academy Awards. Although Jack Lemmon did not win the Oscar, Kevin Spacey dedicated his Oscar for ""American Beauty"" (1999) to Lemmon's performance. According to the behind-the-scenes feature on the ""American Beauty"" DVD, the film's director, Sam Mendes, had watched ""The Apartment"" (among other classic American films) as inspiration in preparation for shooting his film."
"was awarded to producer Bill Bernstein, engineer Dennis Sands, and Newman. A soundtrack album for the film was also released on October 5, 1999, entitled ""American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"". That album includes songs by various artists and two excerpts from the film's score: ""Dead Already"" and ""Any Other Name."" The tracks 'Any Other Name', 'Dead Already' and 'American Beauty' are widely used in film trailers, and are among the most recognized pieces of film music. Some YouTubers who make flight reports, use the track ""Dead Already"", as they claimed ""it was a music fit for"
"goes on with the painting. But as time goes on, they finds themselves increasingly drawn romantically to each other, despite the enigmatic Lee's own fears. Beauty (1998 film) Beauty is an American television film starring Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan and Hal Holbrook based on Susan Wilson's 1997 novel. It aired on CBS on October 25, 1998. The ""beauty"" is talented painter Alix Miller (Turner). Her father, Alexander (Holbrook), is scheduled to go to the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint a family portrait of the mysterious, reclusive author Lee Crompton (Sheridan), but he falls ill and cannot. Alix"
"""American Beauty"" to the fledgling DreamWorks studio, which bought the script for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies. DreamWorks financed the $15 million production and served as its North American distributor. ""American Beauty"" marked theater director Mendes' film debut; courted after his successful productions of the musicals ""Oliver!"" and ""Cabaret"", Mendes was only given the job after 20 others were considered and several A-list directors turned down the opportunity. Spacey was Mendes' first choice for the role of Lester, though DreamWorks urged him to consider better-known actors; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes"
"included robust returns in Argentina, Greece, and Turkey. On the weekend of March 3, 2000, ""American Beauty"" debuted strongly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, markets traditionally ""not receptive to this kind of upscale fare"". The impressive South Korean performance continued, with a return of $1.2 million after nine days. In total, ""American Beauty"" grossed $130.1 million in North America and $226.2 million internationally, for $356.3 million worldwide. ""American Beauty"" was released on VHS on May 9, 2000, and on DVD with the DTS format on October 24, 2000. Before the North American rental release on May 9, Blockbuster Video"
"immediately that it was the one he wanted to make; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film ""Paris, Texas"" (1984) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in ""American Beauty"", as well as parallels with his own childhood. Mendes later met with Spielberg; impressed by Mendes' productions of ""Oliver!"" and ""Cabaret"", Spielberg encouraged him to consider ""American Beauty"". Mendes found that he still had to convince DreamWorks' production executives to let him direct. He had already discussed the film with Jinks and Cohen, and felt they supported him. Ball"
"He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990 and had last hosted the 70th ceremony held in 1998. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 4, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Salma Hayek. ""American Beauty"" won five awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Matrix"" with four awards, ""The Cider House Rules"" and ""Topsy-Turvy"" with two, and ""All About My Mother"", ""Boys Don't Cry"", ""Girl, Interrupted"", ""King Gimp"", ""My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York"", ""The Old Man"
"Best Picture nominations for ""Milk"" and ""Silver Linings Playbook"". ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes, won a total of five Oscars, as well as the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the PGA's Stanley Kramer Award. ""Silver Linings Playbook"", written and directed by David O. Russell, was nominated for eight Oscars. It was the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four"
"integrity. On September 21, 2010, Paramount Home Entertainment released ""American Beauty"" on Blu-ray, as part of Paramount's Sapphire Series. All the extras from the DVD release were present, with the theatrical trailers upgraded to HD. ""American Beauty"" was widely considered the best film of 1999 by the American press. It received overwhelming praise, chiefly for Spacey, Mendes and Ball. ""Variety"" reported that ""no other 1999 movie has benefited from such universal raves."" It was the best-received title at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it won the People's Choice award after a ballot of the festival's audiences. TIFF's director,"
"be a role model to one little girl instead of a hero to countless strangers, confirming that she is Vanessa's mom and is withdrawing from the pageant. The judges see that the crowd is 100% in her favor, and change their rules so Mona becomes the new Miss America Miss. Joyce is left humiliated as her anti-Mona efforts, and chance to become a star TV personality, are both in ruins. Mona and Vanessa end the film having re-united with a fully exonerated Ruby and heading off to happier times. ""Beautiful"" opened in the United States on September 29, 2000 in"
"Beautiful Joe (film) Beautiful Joe is a 2000 American-British film written and directed by Stephen Metcalfe. It stars Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly, with supporting roles by Ian Holm, Dann Florek, and Gil Bellows. A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer. Joe (Billy Connolly) is a regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he"
"about Angela in a rose-petal bath, the steam was real, save for in the overhead shot. To position the camera, a hole had to be cut in the ceiling, through which the steam escaped; it was instead added digitally. ""American Beauty"" was edited by Christopher Greenbury and Tariq Anwar; Greenbury began in the position, but had to leave halfway through post-production because of a scheduling conflict with ""Me, Myself and Irene"" (2000) (in which Chris Cooper also starred). Mendes and an assistant edited the film for 10 days between the appointments. Mendes realized during editing that the film was different"
"organization which supports independent films, as well as the Independent Writers Steering Committee, which was initiated by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Condon is openly gay. He is in a long-term relationship with Jack Morrissey. Bill Condon William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed the films ""Gods and Monsters"" (1998), ""Kinsey"" (2004), and ""Dreamgirls"" (2006), wrote the screenplay for ""Chicago"" (2002), and directed the final two installments of the ""Twilight"" series (2011, 2012), and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017). Condon won an Academy Award as screenwriter for ""Gods and Monsters"";"
"The director and release date of each film are indicated in parenthesis. In addition to winning the BAFTA, the editors of ""American Beauty"" were also nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Satellite Award. Christopher Greenbury Christopher Greenbury (September 24, 1951 – January 4, 2007) was an English film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1979's ""The Muppet Movie"". With Tariq Anwar, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for ""American Beauty"" (1999), which he was"
"Mena Suvari Mena Alexandra Suvari (; born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. After beginning her career as a model and guest-starring in several television series, she made her film debut in the drama ""Nowhere"" (1997). Suvari rose to international prominence for her roles in the 1999 romantic drama film ""American Beauty"", for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and in three of the ""American Pie"" original films (1999–2001, 2012). Her other notable films include ""Slums of Beverly Hills"" (1998), ""Loser"" (2000), ""Sugar & Spice"" (2001), ""Rumor Has It"" (2005),"
"Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein, and Natasha Lyonne, portraying a virgin and innocent choir girl named Heather. While critical response was mixed, the film was a commercial success, grossing US$235 million worldwide. In ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes and co-starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, Suvari took on the role of the young fantasy of a man experiencing a middle age crisis. ""The New York Times"" described her character as ""stimulus enough for [Spacey's character] to wake up out of a marriage-long coma and start considering life's livelier possibilities"". The film received widespread critical acclaim, and"
"""Tea with Mussolini"" (Los lobos de Washington) """"'The Matrix"" Winners Losers (minimum two nominations) 53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and"