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8.5

American Beauty (1999)

American Beauty
Running time: 122 min | Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Dramatic Comedy, Satire, Cult film
American Beauty

Synopsis

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle aged man suffering from a mid-life crisis. He has an epiphany when he lays his eyes on one of his daughter Jane's friends. Woken from his suburban coma, he takes it upon himself to make a few changes -- like quitting his job and buying the car of his dreams. His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), is a frustrated control freak who is only maddened by his escalating freedom, and his daughter (Thora Birch) just plain hates him. His wife's reaction to the situation is to fall in the arms of a colleague (Peter Gallagher). The chaos in the neighborhood becomes more complicated with the arrival of an equally dysfunctional family consisting of a stern ex-Marine, his vacuous wife and their detached, drug-dealing son Ricky, who becomes involved with Jane.

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Nominations & Awards

Academy Awards

  • Best Picture WINNER
  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) WINNER
  • Best Leading Actor (Kevin Spacey) WINNER
  • Best Original Screenplay WINNER
  • Best Cinematography WINNER
  • Best Leading Actress (Annette Bening) NOMINATED
  • Best Music (Score) NOMINATED
  • Best Film Editing NOMINATED

Golden Globes Awards

  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) WINNER
  • Best Picture - Drama WINNER
  • Best Screenplay WINNER
  • Best Leading Actor - Drama (Kevin Spacey) NOMINATED
  • Best Leading Actress - Drama (Annette Bening) NOMINATED
  • Best Music (Score) NOMINATED

BAFTA

  • Best Picture WINNER
  • Best Leading Actor (Kevin Spacey) WINNER
  • Best Leading Actress (Annette Bening) WINNER
  • Best Cinematography WINNER
  • Best Film Editing WINNER
  • Best Music (Score) WINNER
  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) NOMINATED
  • Best Supporting Actor (Wes Bentley) NOMINATED
  • Best Supporting Actress (Thora Birch, Mena Suvari) NOMINATED
  • Best Supporting Actress (Thora Birch, Mena Suvari) NOMINATED
  • Best Original Screenplay NOMINATED
  • Best Production Design NOMINATED
  • Best Makeup and Hair Stylist NOMINATED
  • Best Sound NOMINATED

César Award

  • Best Foreign Language Film NOMINATED

Japan Academy Prize

  • Best Foreign Language Film NOMINATED

Guldbagge

  • Best Foreign Language Film NOMINATED

Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG)

David di Donatello

  • Best Foreign Language Film NOMINATED

Toronto Film Festival

  • People's Choice Award - Best Film WINNER

Critics Choice Award

  • Best Picture WINNER
  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) WINNER
  • Best Original Screenplay WINNER

Directors Guild of America (DGA)

  • Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film (Sam Mendes) WINNER

Boston Society of Film Critics

  • Best Picture NOMINATED
  • Best Leading Actor (Kevin Spacey) NOMINATED

Chicago Film Critics Association

  • Best Picture WINNER
  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) WINNER
  • Best Leading Actor (Kevin Spacey) WINNER
  • Best Upcoming Actor (Wes Bentley) WINNER
  • Best Leading Actress (Annette Bening) NOMINATED
  • Best Screenplay NOMINATED
  • Best Cinematography NOMINATED

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

  • Best Director (Sam Mendes) WINNER
  • Best Picture NOMINATED
  • Best Screenplay NOMINATED
  • Best Cinematography NOMINATED

New York Film Critics Circle

  • Best Picture NOMINATED
  • Best First Work NOMINATED

National Board of Review

  • Best Picture WINNER
  • Top 10 - Movies of the Year WINNER

Producers Guild of America (PGA)

  • Best Picture WINNER

Details

Original title

American Beauty

Director

Sam Mendes

Producer

Dreamworks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG

Running time

122 min

Screenwriter

Alan Ball

Music

Thomas Newman

Cinematography

Conrad L. Hall

Year

1999

Country

United States United States

Box Office

Budget

$15,000,000

Gross

$356,296,601

Top Highest grossing movies of 1999

Ranking

IMDb
8.4
Rotten Tomatoes
8.8
Metacritic
8.6
Unopeliculas
8.3

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