American Beauty
Oscar Nominations
Best Picture: Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
Best Director: Sam Mendes
Best Actor: Kevin Spacey
Best Actress: Annette Bening
Best Cinematography: Conrad L Hall
Best Film Editing: Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury
Best Original Score: Thomas Newman
Best Screenplay written directly for the screen: Alan Ball
If anyone has lived a life of quiet desperation, it is Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey). Lester, an unremarkable man trapped in a suburban wasteland, is experiencing a midlife crisis that will be the catalyst for explosive change. And soon it wil engulf everyone in the blast of his self-destruction. Unsettling and provocative, American Beauty has been named an instant classic by critics and viewers alike, for its portrait of American suburbia.
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