Oscar for Best Actor: Nominees



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The Wrestler

The Wrestler is a 2008 drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Ernest Miller. Production began in January 2008, and the film premiered at the 2008 Venice...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rourke

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Marisa Tomei

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Mickey Rourke

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Milk

Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Gus Van Sant

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Dustin Lance Black

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Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the eponymous play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Frank Langella

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Eric Fellner,; Brian Grazer,; Ron Howard

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The Visitor

The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is forced to face issues relating to identity, immigration, and cross-cultural...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Jenkins

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1921 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad...

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x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Brad Pitt

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: David Fincher

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Cean Chaffin,; Kathleen Kennedy,; Frank Marshall

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award–winning 1979 musical thriller. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd,...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a 2007 American dramatic film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Tony Gilroy

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Tony Gilroy

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There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927). It tells the story of a silver-miner-turned-oil-man on a ruthless quest...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Paul Thomas Anderson

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Paul Thomas Anderson,; Joanne Sellar,; Daniel Lupi

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Day-Lewis

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In the Valley of Elah

In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 Academy Award-nominated film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon. The film’s title refers to the Biblical valley where the battle between David and...

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x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Tommy Lee Jones

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises is a 2007 crime drama film directed by David Cronenberg, from a screenplay written by Steven Knight. The film tells of a British midwife's interactions with the Russian Mafia in London and stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts and...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

x Award Nominee:: Viggo Mortensen

x Year:: 2008

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Viggo Mortensen

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Viggo Mortensen

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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond is a 2006 action/adventure drama film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, director of Glory and The Last Samurai, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Leonardo DiCaprio

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Djimon Hounsou

Half Nelson

Half Nelson is a 2006 American film that premiered in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically on August 11, 2006. It is written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ryan Gosling

Venus

Venus is a 2006 film starring Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Vanessa Redgrave and Jodie Whittaker. It is directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was put on limited release in...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Peter O'Toole

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Peter O'Toole

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

x Award Nominee:: Leslie Phillips

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film, directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on the true story of Chris Gardner. The film stars Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker. The screenplay...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Will Smith

x Year:: 2007

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

x Award Nominee:: Will Smith

The Last King of Scotland

The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name. It was adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock and directed by Kevin Macdonald. The film was a co-production between companies from...

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x Year:: 2006

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Forest Whitaker

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Forest Whitaker

x Year:: 2006

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

x Award Nominee:: James McAvoy

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Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1981. The film was directed by Taiwanese director Ang Lee from a screenplay by...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Heath Ledger

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ang Lee

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: James Schamus,; Diana Ossana

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Walk the Line

Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film, directed by James Mangold and based on the life of country singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Robert Patrick. The film...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Joaquin Phoenix

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Reese Witherspoon

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Joaquin Phoenix

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: David Strathairn

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: George Clooney,; Grant Heslov

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Hustle & Flow

Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent film written and directed by Craig Brewer about a Memphis hustler called DJay, played by Terrence Howard, who experiences a midlife crisis and is compelled to face his aspiration to become a rapper. DJay, a petty...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Terrence Howard

Capote

Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically...

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x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Bennett Miller

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael Ohoven,; William Vince,; Caroline Baron

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland is a 2004 British/American semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. The story focuses on Scottish...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

x Year:: 2005

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

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Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Don Cheadle

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Keir Pearson,; Terry George

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Sophie Okonedo

The Aviator

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film draws largely upon a biography by Charles Higham. The film centers on Hughes' life from...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Leonardo DiCaprio

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Martin Scorsese

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Cate Blanchett

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Tom Rosenberg,; Albert Ruddy,; Clint Eastwood

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Ray

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on thirty years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award...

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x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Taylor Hackford

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Howard Baldwin,; Stuart Benjamin,; Taylor Hackford

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jamie Foxx

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure film, based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. The story follows pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom)...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Johnny Depp

House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 American drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Dubus III. The story concerns the battle between a young woman and an...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ben Kingsley

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the novel by Charles Frazier. The movie depicting the events leading up to the American Civil War, and proceeds to a vivid recreation of the Battle of the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jude Law

x Year:: 2004

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

x Award Nominee:: Nicole Kidman

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Renée Zellweger

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Mystic River

Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Clint Eastwood,; Judie G. Hoyt,; Robert Lorenz

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

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Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation is a 2003 American comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides. It was nominated for four Academy Awards,...

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x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Sofia Coppola,; Ross Katz

x Year:: 2004

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Bill Murray

x Year:: 2003

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sofia Coppola

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Adaptation

Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama satire film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief through self-referential events. Adaptation stars Nicolas...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Nicolas Cage

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Meryl Streep

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Charlie Kaufman,; Donald Kaufman

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The Quiet American

The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The 2002 version of The Quiet American, in contrast...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Michael Caine

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Michael Caine

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. The film is inspired by...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Daniel Day-Lewis

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Martin Scorsese

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Jay Cocks,; Kenneth Lonergan,; Steven Zaillian

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About Schmidt

About Schmidt is a 2002 American film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt and Hope Davis as his daughter Jeannie. It is loosely based on the 1996 novel of the same title by Louis Begley. Many of the scenes were...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jack Nicholson

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Kathy Bates

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Jack Nicholson

The Pianist

The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Polish, French, German, and...

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x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Roman Polański

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Alain Sarde,; Robert Benmussa,; Roman Polański

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Adrien Brody

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In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based. The film stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Tom Wilkinson

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Sissy Spacek

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Todd Field,; Ross Katz,; Graham Leader

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Ali

Ali is a 2001 American biographical film directed by Michael Mann. The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, his conversion to Islam,...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Will Smith

x Year:: 2002

x Award:: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

x Award Nominee:: Will Smith

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Jon Voight

I Am Sam

I Am Sam is a 2001 drama telling the story of a mentally challenged father and his efforts to retain custody of his daughter. The film was directed by Jessie Nelson and stars Sean Penn with Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of...

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Film Editing

x Award Nominee:: Mike Hill

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Ron Howard,; Brian Grazer

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Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 police drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film follows two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles....

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x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ethan Hawke

x Year:: 2001

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Denzel Washington

Pollock

Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson. The movie was adapted by Barbara Turner...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ed Harris

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Marcia Gay Harden

Cast Away

Cast Away is a 2000 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Hanks portrays a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes on a flight over the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Tom Hanks

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Tom Hanks

Before Night Falls

Before Night Falls is a 2000 movie directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe and Lázaro Gómez...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Javier Bardem

Quills

Quills is a 2000 period drama directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Geoffrey Rush

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

x Award Nominee:: Geoffrey Rush

Gladiator

Gladiator is a 2000 British and American epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius,...

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x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Ridley Scott

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: David Franzoni,; John Logan,; William Nicholson

x Year:: 2000

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Branko Lustig,; David Franzoni,; Douglas Wick

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The Insider

The Insider is a 1999 film that tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because CBS' then...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Russell Crowe

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Michael Mann

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Michael Mann,; Pieter Jan Brugge

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The Straight Story

The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker....

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Richard Farnsworth

Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 film written and directed by Woody Allen which tells the story of a (fictional) arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray (played by Sean Penn) who regards himself as perhaps the best guitarist in the...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Sean Penn

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Samantha Morton

The Hurricane

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Denzel Washington

American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a middle-aged office worker who has a midlife crisis after becoming infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend...

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x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actress

x Award Nominee:: Annette Bening

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Sam Mendes

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Dan Jinks,; Bruce Cohen

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Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters is a 1998 film which recounts the (somewhat fictionalized) last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme. It stars Ian McKellen as Whale, along with Brendan Fraser, Lynn...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Ian McKellen

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Lynn Redgrave

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Bill Condon

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Affliction

Affliction is a 1998 film written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt and Jim True. It tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nolte), a small-town...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Nick Nolte

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: James Coburn

American History X

American History X is a 1998 American film directed by Tony Kaye. The film tells the story of two brothers, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) and Daniel "Danny" Vinyard (Edward Furlong) of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California. Both are extremely...

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x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Edward Norton

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 25 minutes, which depict the...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year

x Award Nominee:: Matt Damon

x Year:: 1999

x Award:: Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture

x Award Nominee:: Edward Burns,; Jeremy Davies,; Vin Diesel,; more ▼

x Year:: 1999

x Award:

x Award Nominee:: Mark Gordon,; Gary Levinsohn,; Steven Spielberg

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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who must employ his fertile imagination to...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Director

x Award Nominee:: Roberto Benigni

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Roberto Benigni,; Vincenzo Cerami

x Year:: 1998

x Award:: Oscar for Best Picture

x Award Nominee:: Gianluigi Braschi,; Elda Ferri

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film. The movie tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robin Williams

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Song

x Award Nominee:

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

x Award Nominee:: Minnie Driver

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The Apostle

The Apostle is a 1997 film, written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, and Miranda Richardson also appear. It was filmed on location in and around Saint...

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x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Robert Duvall

Ulee's Gold

Ulee's Gold is a 1997 film written and directed by Victor Nuñez, and starring Peter Fonda in the title role. Co-stars include Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood, Jessica Biel, J. Kenneth Campbell, Steven Flynn, Dewey Weber, and Vanessa...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Peter Fonda

Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog is a 1997 film starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman about a Washington spin doctor who, mere days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake...

Award Nominations

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Best Actor

x Award Nominee:: Dustin Hoffman

x Year:: 1997

x Award:: Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay

x Award Nominee:: Hilary Henkin,; David Mamet

As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 comedy film directed by James L. Brooks starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won for Best Actor and Best Actress. It portrays an obsessive-compulsive,...

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