6th Critics' Choice Awards
The 6th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 22, 2001, honoring the finest achievements of 2000 filmmaking. Top 10 films (in alphabetical order) *''Almost Famous'' *''Billy Elliot'' *''Cast Away'' *'' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)'' *'' Erin Brockovich'' *''Gladiator'' *'' Quills'' *'' Thirteen Days'' *''Traffic'' *'' Wonder Boys'' Winners *Best Actor: **Russell Crowe – ''Gladiator'' *Best Actress: **Julia Roberts – '' Erin Brockovich'' *Best Animated Feature: **''Chicken Run'' *Best Child Performance: ** Jamie Bell – ''Billy Elliot'' *Best Composer: **Hans Zimmer – ''Gladiator'' and ''The Road to El Dorado'' *Best Director: **Steven Soderbergh – '' Erin Brockovich'' and ''Traffic'' *Best Family Film: **''My Dog Skip'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)'' • China / Hong Kong *Best Picture: **''Gladiator'' *Best Screenplay – Adapted: **''Traffic'' – Stephen Gaghan *Best Screenp ...
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Gladiator (2000 Film)
''Gladiator'' is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson. The film was co-produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures. DreamWorks Pictures distributed the film in North America while Universal Pictures released it internationally through United International Pictures. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed (in his final role), Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, Richard Harris, and Tommy Flanagan. Crowe portrays Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena to avenge the murders of his family and his emperor. Inspired by Daniel P. Mannix's 1958 book ''Those About to Die'' (formerly titled ''The Way of the Gladiator'') ...
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Stephen Gaghan (cropped)
Stephen Gaghan ( ; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film ''Traffic'', based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as ''Syriana'' which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller ''Abandon (film), Abandon'' and the family film ''Dolittle (film), Dolittle'', and directed the drama ''Gold (2016 film), Gold''. Childhood and education Gaghan was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag. Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' and the ''Philadelphia Daily ...
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