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Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
 
Best Adapted screenplay
 
Australian Film Inst. (1998)
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Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
 
 
Achievement in film editing
 
Broadcast Film Critics (1997)
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Best Adapted screenplay
 
Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
 
L.A. Film Critics (1997)
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Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Best Screenplay
 
Achievement in cinematography
 
Achievement in directing
 
Natl. Bd. of Review (1997)
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Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Achievement in directing
 
N.Y. Film Critics (1997)
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Achievement in directing
 
Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Best Screenplay
 
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
 
Natl. Soc. Film Critics (1997)
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Achievement in directing
 
Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Best Screenplay
 
Best Adapted screenplay
 
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Achievement in directing - Curtis Hanson
 
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Nominated
Best Motion Picture of the Year
 
Best Adapted screenplay
 
Achievement in directing - Curtis Hanson
 
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Kim Basinger
 
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Kevin Spacey
 
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
 
Achievement in cinematography
 
Achievement in Costume Design
 
Achievement in directing - Curtis Hanson
 
Nominated
Best Motion Picture - Drama
 
Best Screenplay
 
Achievement in directing - Curtis Hanson
 
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
 
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Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
 
 
 
 
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L.A. Confidential


Hard-boiled, complicated crime drama based on James Ellroy's even more complex novel. Fifties Hollywood is ripe with corruption in many forms--politics, police, business, gangsters, racial tensions, and journalistic sleaze in the persona of Sid Hudgens (DeVito), editor of tabloid rag Hush-Hush. Sid's police contact is celebrity Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Spacey), who serves as an advisor to a TV cop show (think "Dragnet"). There's a bloodbath murder case that involves brutal-yet-tender cop Bud White (Crowe); the ruthlessly ambitious, college-educated neophyte Ed Exley (Pearce); and their veteran boss, Capt. Dudley Smith (Cromwell). There's also wealthy pimp/businessman Pierce Patchett (Strathairn) and his movie-star look-alike hookers, including world-weary Lynn (Basinger), who gets involved with Bud, who... Well, lets just say that Hanson does a masterful job tying up all the loose ends and still leaving you wanting more.
 
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Wide, DVD, VHS, CC, Blu-ray Disc
Distributor:
Warner Home Video, Inc.
 

 
 
 
 
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