List Of American Films Of 2001
This is a list of American films released in 2001. '' A Beautiful Mind'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. ''Moulin Rouge!'' won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy. ''In the Bedroom'' won the Satellite Award for Best Film – Drama. ''Shrek'' won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. '' Murder on a Sunday Morning'' won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature). '' The Believer'' won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic. ''Southern Comfort'' won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. ''Freddy Got Fingered'' won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture. See also * 2001 in American television * 2001 in the United States External links * * List of 2001 box office number-one films in the United States {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2001 In Film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first installments of the ''Harry Potter'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Spy Kids'', ''Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Shrek'' franchises, and ''The Lord of the Rings'' and '' Ocean's'' trilogies. Significant non-English language films released included ''Monsoon Wedding'', ''Amélie'' and ''Spirited Away''. There was one film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', that passed over $1 billion in a re-release of 2020. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2001 by worldwide gross are as follows: ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' grossed $974 million, and became the second highest-grossing film of all time. It was also the highest-grossing film in the ''Harry Potter'' film franchise before ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' surpassed it in 2011. 2001 was the first time that two films released in the same year grossed more than $800 million at the box office, with ''Harry P ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Southern Comfort (2001 Film)
''Southern Comfort'' is a 2001 documentary film about the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by a dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. By the time Eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life. Plot The film begins in the spring and documents Eads' life through the following winter. Eads falls in love with Lola, a transgender woman. He spends those remaining warm days in the company of his "chosen family": Maxwell, Cas, and "the rest". That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit Robert, who is still their daughter in their eyes. His son and grandson also come to visit him that summer. His son struggles to gender him correctly and says he will always be "mom" in his eyes. But his grandson knows and has always known him as "papaw". Later that year, Eads makes his last appearance at the Southern Comfort Conf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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3000 Miles To Graceland
''3000 Miles to Graceland'' is a 2001 American heist black action comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Demian Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein co-wrote the script with Richard Recco. The film stars Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, and Daisy McCrackin. ''3000 Miles to Graceland'' was released in the United States on February 23, 2001, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mostly negative reviews by the critics and was a box office bomb making only $18.7 million against its $62 million budget. Plot Recent parolee Michael Zane stops at a run-down desert motel outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He catches a boy, Jesse, stealing from his car, and chases him back to his mother, Cybil Waingrow, whom he seduces. The following morning, four men arrive to pick up Michael: Murphy, Hanson, Gus, and Franklin. Dressed in Elvis costumes, the group goes to Las Vegas and robs the Riviera, which is holding a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarita Choudhury
Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and television shows such as in '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996), ''A Perfect Murder'' (1998), '' 3 A.M.'' (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake '' Gloria'' (1999). In 2002, she starred in '' Just a Kiss''. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's ''She Hate Me'' (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in ''Lady in the Water'', a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2'' (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film ''A Hologram for the King''. In 2021, Choudhury joined the cast of HBO Max's ''Sex and the City'' revival television series '' And Just Like That...''. Early life Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Indian and half English descent. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star (although, there are some who dispute that claim and believe Cheng Pei-pei actually holds that distinction), she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films ''Coffy'' (1973) and '' Foxy Brown'' (1974); her other major films during this period included ''The Big Doll House'' (1971), ''Women in Cages'' (1971), ''The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), ''Black Mama, White Mama'' (1973), ''Scream Blacula Scream'' (1973), '' The Arena'' (1974), ''Sheba, Baby'' (1975), '' Bucktown'' (1975) and ''Friday Foster'' (1975). She portrayed t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover (; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is widely known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the ''Lethal Weapon'' film series. He also had leading roles in his films included ''The Color Purple'', ''To Sleep with Anger'', ''Predator 2'', '' Angels in the Outfield'', and ''Operation Dumbo Drop''. Glover has prominent supporting roles in '' Silverado'', ''Witness'', '' A Rage in Harlem'', ''Dreamgirls'', ''Shooter'', '' Death at a Funeral'', ''Beyond the Lights'', ''Saw'', ''Sorry to Bother You'', '' The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', '' The Dead Don't Die'', ''Lonesome Dove'' and '' Jumanji: The Next Level''. He is also an active supporter of various political causes. In 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Glover with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Additionally, Glover has received numerous accolades, including the NAACP's President's Award and the Cuban National Medal o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor and producer. He gained notoriety and acclaim for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom '' Cheers'' (1984-1993) and its spin-off ''Frasier'' (1993-2004), for which he received four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. The role remains one of the longest running in television history. For his role as the corrupt Mayor in the political series ''Boss'' (2011-2012) he received a Golden Globe Award. In 2000 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Grammer having trained as an actor at Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre, made his professional acting debut as Lennox in the 1981 Broadway revival of '' Macbeth''. The following year he portrayed Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in '' Othello''. In 1983, he acted alongside Mandy Patinkin in the original off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical '' Sunday in the Park with George ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edward Burns
Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998), '' 15 Minutes'' (2001), ''Life or Something Like It'' (2002), ''Confidence'' (2003), ''A Sound of Thunder'' (2005), ''The Holiday'' (2006), ''The Groomsmen'' (2006), ''One Missed Call'' (2008), '' 27 Dresses'' (2008), ''Man on a Ledge'' (2012), ''Friends with Kids'' (2012), and ''Alex Cross'' (2012). Burns directed movies such as ''The Brothers McMullen'' (1995), '' She's the One'' (1996), '' Sidewalks of New York'' (2001), ''Purple Violets'' (2007), and ''The Fitzgerald Family Christmas'' (2012). He also starred as Bugsy Siegel in the TNT crime drama series ''Mob City'' and as Terry Muldoon in TNT's ''Public Morals''. Early life Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly (née McKenna), a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. ( , ; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. Born in Manhattan in New York City, De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first major role was in ''Greetings'' (1968), and he gained early recognition with his role as a baseball player in the sports drama ''Bang the Drum Slowly'' (1973). De Niro's first collaboration with Scorsese was ''Mean Streets'' (1973), where he played small-time crook "Johnny Boy". Stardom followed with his role as young Vito Corleon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Herzfeld
John Herzfeld (born April 15, 1947) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His feature film directing credits include '' Two of a Kind'' (1983), ''2 Days in the Valley'' (1996), ''15 Minutes'' (2001) and ''The Death and Life of Bobby Z'' (2007). He has also directed numerous made-for-television movies, including '' The Ryan White Story'' (1989), ''The Preppie Murder'' (1989), '' Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story'' (1993), and '' Don King: Only in America'' (1997) for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 '' ABC Afterschool Special'' titled " Stoned". Early life Herzfeld was born on April 15, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. His father, who ran a small maintenance company, had a great love of movies, theater and ballet, and exposed his children to the arts as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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15 Minutes
''15 Minutes'' is a 2001 American satirical buddy cop action thriller film directed and written by John Herzfeld and starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns. Its story revolves around a homicide detective (De Niro) and a fire marshal (Burns) who join forces to apprehend a pair of Eastern European murderers (Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov) videotaping their crimes in order to become rich and famous. The title is a reference to the Andy Warhol quotation, " In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Plot Ex-convicts Emil Slovak and Oleg Razgul arrive in the United States to claim their part of a bank heist in eastern Europe. Oleg steals a video camera from an electronics store. At the rundown apartment of their old partner, they are denied their share of the spoils, so Emil fatally stabs the partner and his wife as Oleg tapes it with the camera. Czech immigrant Daphne Handlova witnesses the murders from the bathroom, then escapes before Emil and Oleg can kill h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |