"fiction disaster film ""Armageddon"" (1998), the highest-grossing film of that year, and the crime drama ""A Simple Plan"" (1998), which earned him his third Oscar nomination. In the 2000s, Thornton achieved further success in starring dramas ""Monster's Ball"" (2001), ""The Man Who Wasn't There"" (2001), and ""Friday Night Lights"" (2004); comedies ""Bandits"" (2001), ""Intolerable Cruelty"" (2003), and ""Bad Santa"" (2003); and action films ""Eagle Eye"" (2008) and ""Faster"" (2010). In 2014, Thornton starred as Lorne Malvo in the first season of the anthology series ""Fargo"", earning a nomination for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie at"
"-- the high-level government conspiracy and the maverick law enforcement agent -- are recycled, and not to good effect. While Bruce Willis can play the action hero as well as anyone in Hollywood, this particular outing leaves him marooned in situations that are characterized by too little tension and too much nonsense."" The film earned $10,104,715 in its opening weekend in 2,386 theaters. Altogether, the film grossed $32,935,289 in the United States and $60,172,000 internationally for a total of $93,107,289. Mercury Rising Mercury Rising is a 1998 American political action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by"
"and convicted for crimes imitative of this film's plot. In its opening weekend, the film opened at #2, earning $13 million. The film grossed $67.6 million worldwide, against a budget of $75 million. Bandits (2001 film) Bandits is a 2001 American criminal comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. Filming began in October 2000 and ended in February 2001. It helped Thornton earn a National Board of Review Best Actor Award for 2001. Thornton and Blanchett's performances earned praise, as each was nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress Golden Globe"
"Mercury Rising Mercury Rising is a 1998 American political action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the movie is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as ""Simple Simon"". Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a 9-year-old autistic boy who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code. The film was released on April 3, 1998. It received mostly negative reviews. A cryptographic code called ""Mercury"" was created by the National Security Agency and is allegedly so complex that its creators believe no"
"3. Roger Deakins – ""A Serious Man"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Wes Anderson – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 3. Quentin Tarantino – ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. ""Up in the Air""<br> 3. ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" 1. ""Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)"" • France<br> 2. ""Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)"" • Spain<br> 3. ""Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)"" • Sweden 1. ""Of Time and the City""<br> 2. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil""<br> 3. ""Tyson"" 1. Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche, – ""In the Loop""<br> 2. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – ""Up"
"1998 in film The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including; ""Shakespeare in Love"" (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), ""Saving Private Ryan"", ""American History X"", ""The Truman Show"", ""Primary Colors"", """"Rushmore"""", ""Rush Hour"", ""There's Something About Mary"", ""The Big Lebowski"", and Terrence Malick's directorial return in ""The Thin Red Line"". Animated releases included ""Antz"", ""A Bug's Life"", ""Mulan"", and ""The Prince of Egypt"" and ""The Rugrats Movie"". Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1998. The top ten films released in 1998 by worldwide gross are as follows: Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Golden"
"on July 24, 1998, and grossed $30.5 million on its opening weekend, opening to number one and remained at the top for four weeks until ""Blade"" top the film in its fifth week of release. The film grossed $216.5 million in the US and Canada. and $265.3 million in other territories, bringing its worldwide total to $481.8 million. It was the highest-grossing US film of 1998, succeeding ""Armageddon"", which top the film as the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 45.74 million tickets in the United States and Canada. ""Saving Private Ryan"""
"days, three new U.S. box office records set by the film. The film went on to gross over $1 billion at the box office worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing movie worldwide ever at that time, before adjusting for inflation. It also ranks as one of the most critically acclaimed superhero films ever made. Bale reprised the role again for the sequel to the Dark Knight ""The Dark Knight Rises"", released on 20 July 2012, which made Bale the longest-lasting actor to portray Batman on film to date. Following the shooting at a midnight showing of ""The Dark Knight Rises"", he"
"had a worldwide opening week of . It is the 12th-highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. It grossed $375,000 (1.53 crore) in its first week and earned a total of $1 million (4.10 crore) outside India. Overseas, It is the 3rd-highest-grossing film of 1998 behind ""Kuch Kuch Hota Hai"" ($6.3 million (26.61 crore)) and ""Dil Se.."" ($2.32 million (9.86 crore)), which were also Shah Rukh Khan starrers. Nominated Duplicate (1998 film) Duplicate is an 1998 Indian Hindi crime comedy film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and stars Shahrukh Khan in a double role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre. The movie is"
"The Avengers (1998 film) The Avengers is a 1998 American action spy film adaptation of the British television series of the same name directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a mad scientist bent on controlling the world's weather. Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed on the original series, makes a vocal cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones. The film was a box office bomb, only grossing $48 million of its $60 million budget, and received universally negative reviews"
"1998. With eleven awards, ""Titanic"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's ""The Sound of Music"". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in ""As Good as It Gets"", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in"
"Gigli Gigli ( ) is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Martin Brest and starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan. Popular media gave attention and interest to the film during production, primarily because Affleck and Lopez, the film's stars, were romantically involved at the time. After release, however, critical reaction was universally negative, and in the years since its release ""Gigli"" has been considered one of the worst films of all time. The film was also one of the most expensive box office bombs in history, grossing $7.2"
"Mind"" (2001), """" (2003), ""Dogville"" (2003), ""Wimbledon"" (2004), the adaptation of the novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" (2006) and ""Margin Call"" (2011). He also portrayed Dryden Vos in """" (2018). He has been nominated for various awards, including BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Bettany is married to American actress Jennifer Connelly, with whom he has two children. His most commercially successful films have been ""Avengers: Infinity War,"" which has grossed over US$2 billion, ""The Avengers,"" which grossed over US$1.5 billion,"
"– ""Forrest Gump"" 1995: Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson – ""Leaving Las Vegas"" 1996: Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott – ""Shine"" 1997: Peter Fonda as Ulysses ""Ulee"" Jackson – ""Ulee's Gold"" 1998: Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank – ""The Truman Show"" 1999: Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham – ""American Beauty"" 2000: Russell Crowe – ""Gladiator"" as Maximus Decimus Meridius 2001: Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" as John Nash 2002: Jack Nicholson – ""About Schmidt"" as Warren Schmidt 2003: Sean Penn – ""Mystic River"" as Jimmy Markum 2004: Paul Giamatti – ""Sideways"" as Miles Raymond 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman –"
"dollars worldwide. The most successful of all is Frozen (2013 film) by The Walt Disney Company, with 1.272 billion dollars worldwide gross and 2 Academy Awards (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song). Action movies is the second most famous genre in North America in current century. Marvel Cinematic Universe has an important place in it. Totally 18 movies has been made, starting from Iron Man (2008 film) to Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the box office total is 17.527 billion dollars so far. The highest grossing movie of this"
"the '50s, with also rock music from the '90s. True Romance True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Walken. At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at Clarence's apartment in downtown Detroit. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as a"
"Emmy Awards nominations. In 1994, he became the chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment., which is a corporate division of News Corporation. In his new position, Mechanic was responsible not only for Fox's home video activities, but for production, marketing, distribution, international theatrical activities, and pay TV as well. Fox produced the number-one grossing films worldwide in 1995, 1996 and 1997 with ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"", ""Independence Day"" and ""Titanic"". As a result of his leadership, in 1998, Twentieth Century Fox was the number-one studio in worldwide box-office gross revenue. That same year, Fox Music produced"
"Twilight (1998 film) Twilight is a 1998 American thriller neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton, written by Benton and Richard Russo, and starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing and James Garner. The film's original score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Aging private detective Harry Ross (Newman), an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames (Witherspoon) to her parents' home. He tracks down Mel and her sleazy boyfriend, Jeff Willis (Schreiber), at a Mexican resort. During a struggle, Mel accidentally shoots Harry with his pistol, striking him in the upper thigh."
"sell out. Its highest grossing single day was Saturday, February 14, 1998, on which it earned $13,048,711, more than eight weeks after its North American debut. It stayed at number one for 15 consecutive weeks in North America, a record for any film. The film stayed in theaters in North America for almost 10 months before finally closing on Thursday, October 1, 1998 with a final domestic gross of $600,788,188. Outside North America, the film made double its North American gross, generating $1,242,413,080 and accumulating a grand total of $1,843,201,268 worldwide from its initial theatrical run. Before ""Titanic""s release, various"
"man who wins two tickets for the third-class on the ill-fated RMS ""Titanic"". DiCaprio initially refused to portray the character but was eventually encouraged to pursue the role by Cameron, who strongly believed in his acting ability. Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date (it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's film ""Avatar""), grossing more than $1.84 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as ""Leo-Mania"". In May 1998, for example, his face"
"Billy Bob Thornton Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. Thornton had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller ""One False Move"", and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film ""Sling Blade"" (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He appeared in several major film roles in the 1990s following ""Sling Blade"", including Oliver Stone's neo-noir ""U Turn"" (1997), political drama ""Primary Colors"" (1998), science"
"John, Richard O'Brien, Jennifer Saunders, Richard E. Grant, Elvis Costello, and Meat Loaf. Released in December 1997, ""Spiceworld: The Movie"" proved to be a hit at the box office, breaking the record for the highest-ever weekend debut for Super Bowl Weekend (25 January 1998) in the US, with box office sales of $10,527,222. The movie took in a total of $77 million at the box office worldwide. Despite being a commercial success, the film was widely panned by critics; the movie was nominated for seven awards at the 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards where the Spice Girls collectively won the award"
"Iñárritu, Peter Jackson, Jim Jarmusch, Barry Levinson, Richard Linklater, Terrence Malick, Anthony Minghella, Hayao Miyazaki, Mike Newell, Sam Raimi, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Taika Waititi, and Joe Wright. , Blanchett's films have grossed more than $10 billion at the worldwide box-office. Blanchett has featured in seven films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: ""Elizabeth"" (1998), ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001, 2002 and 2003), ""The Aviator"" (2004), ""Babel"" (2006), and ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" (2008). Among her numerous accolades for her performances, Blanchett has received two Academy Awards, three"
"3. Debra Winger – ""The Sheltering Sky"" and ""Everybody Wins"" 1. Bruce Davison – ""Longtime Companion""<br> 2. Joe Pesci – ""Goodfellas""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Dick Tracy""<br> 3. John Turturro – ""Miller's Crossing"" 1. Annette Bening – ""The Grifters""<br> 2. Uma Thurman – ""Henry & June"" and ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 3. Dianne Wiest – ""Edward Scissorhands"" 1. Charles Burnett – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br> 2. Tom Stoppard – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Donald E. Westlake – ""The Grifters"" 1. Peter Suschitzky – ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 2. Ian Baker – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Henry &"
"The Siege (1998 film) The Siege is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made several attacks in New York City. The film stars Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, and Bruce Willis. FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) and his Lebanese American partner, Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub), intervene at the hijacking of a bus fully loaded with passengers, which contains an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists escape. The FBI receives demands to release Sheikh"
"the second highest-grossing film in history at the time after ""Gone with the Wind"". It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees). ""Ben-Hur"" also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. Today, ""Ben-Hur"" is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 the American Film Institute ranked it the 72nd best American film"
"highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: ""Titanic"" (1997), ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2"" (2011), """" (2003), made in New Zealand, and """" (2005). Adding four more ""Harry Potter"" films and one more ""Lord of the Rings"" movie, plus the Tim Burton version of ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), and more than half of the top twenty most financially successful films, had a substantial British dimension. British influence can also be seen with the 'English Cycle' of Disney animated films, which include ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951), ""Peter Pan"" (1953), ""One"
"gangster Whitey Bulger in ""Black Mass"". Depp is the third highest-grossing actor worldwide, as films featuring Depp have grossed over US$3.7 billion at the United States box office and over US$10 billion worldwide. His most commercially successful films are the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" series, which grossed US$4.5 billion, the ""Fantastic Beasts"" film series, which grossed US$1.3 billion, ""Alice in Wonderland"", which grossed US$1 billion, ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", which grossed US$474 million, and ""The Tourist"", which grossed US$278 million. Depp has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Depp won the Golden Globe Award"
"""Dear Jesse""<br> 3. ""Theme: Murder"" 1. Taste of Cherry (""Ta'm e guilass"") • Iran/France<br> 2. ""The Celebration"" (""Festen"") • Denmark<br> 3. ""Life Is Beautiful"" (""La vita è bella"") • Italy Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1998 The 19th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1998. The awards were given on 13 December 1998. 1. Out of Sight<br> 2. ""The General""<br> 3. ""Saving Private Ryan"" 1. Brendan Gleeson – ""The General"" and ""I Went Down""<br> 2. George Clooney – ""Out of Sight""<br> 3. John Hurt – ""Love and Death on Long Island"" 1. Samantha Morton"
"where she played the daughter of Bruce Willis' character and love interest of Ben Affleck's character. The film generated mixed reviews, but it was a box office success, earning $553 million worldwide. The movie included the songs ""I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"" and ""What Kind of Love Are You On"" by Aerosmith. In a 2001 interview with ""The Guardian"", she said that she initially turned down the role in ""Armageddon:"" ""I really didn't want to do it at first and I turned it down a couple of times, but the biggest reason I changed my mind was because"
"grossing $14,502,865 in box office revenue. During its final week in release, ""Hard Target"" opened in a distant eleventh place with $1,270,945 in revenue. For that particular weekend, ""Striking Distance"" starring Bruce Willis made its debut, opening in first place with $8,705,808 in revenue. The film went on to top out domestically at $32,589,677 in total ticket sales through a 5-week theatrical run. Internationally, the film took in an additional $41,600,000 in box office business for a combined worldwide total of $74,189,677. For 1993 as a whole, the film worldwide would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of"
"repeated with electronic distortion. This is a reference to Autobahn's nihilism in the film. ""The Big Lebowski"" received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 1998, at the 1,300-capacity Eccles Theater. It was also screened at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival before opening in North America on March 6, 1998 in 1,207 theaters. It grossed USD $5.5 million on its opening weekend, grossing US$17 million in the United States, just above its US$15 million budget. The film's worldwide gross outside of the US was $28 million, bringing its worldwide gross to $46,189,568. Many critics"
"Wire<br> 2. ""Trouble the Water""<br> 3. ""Encounters at the End of the World"" 2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2009, honored the best in film for 2008. 1. ""Waltz with Bashir"" (""Vals Im Bashir"")<br> 2. ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. ""WALL-E"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Gus Van Sant – ""Milk"" and ""Paranoid Park""<br> 3. Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3."