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Motion Picture: "THE INSIDER"
Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Cinematography
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Film Editing
Best Sound
Produced by: Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann
Previous Best Film Wins:
Golden Satellites
Los Angeles Film Critics
Synopsis: Russell Crowe stars as Jeffrey Wigand, the ex-research chief for a tobacco company who appears on CBS' "60 Minutes" to reveal the tobacco industry's cover-up on the harms of smoking. Al Pacino plays the television producer who is pressured to drop the story by the network.

Florida Times-Union review of "The Insider"

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"Crowe was not being rewarded for his performance in Gladiator, but rather his LAC, Insider, and Gladiator put together. Tom Hanks is going to win the oscar next year for Road to Perdition, Sam Mendez is no fluke. If you wanna whine about something winning that didn't deserve it, complain about Gladiator for best picture. Traffic wins oscars for directing, screenplay,and editing, not to mention del toro's for supporting actor and the SAG award for best ensemble. Why vote for Gladiator over Traffic when it wins the other awards? "

--Anonymous