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Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from several perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik. The film stars an international ensemble cast, including Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Erika Christensen, Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Tomas Milian, Topher Grace, James Brolin, Steven Bauer, and Benjamin Bratt. It features both English and Spanish-language dialogue.

20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios; it was rejected because of the three-hour running time and the subject matter—Traffic is more of a political film than most Hollywood productions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the filmmakers more money than Fox. Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive color grade for each story line so that audiences could tell them apart.

Traffic was released in the United States on December 27, 2000, and received critical acclaim for Soderbergh's direction, the film's style, complexity, messages, and the cast's performances (particularly del Toro's). Traffic earned numerous awards, including four Oscars (from five nominations): Best Director for Steven Soderbergh, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Adapted Screenplay for Stephen Gaghan and Best Film Editing for Stephen Mirrione. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $48 million budget.

In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries—also called Traffic—based on the film and the 1989 British television series.

PlotEdit

Mexico story lineEdit

In Mexico, police officers Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez and Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport. General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official, interrupts their arrest to offer Javier a special assignment: apprehending Francisco Flores, a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregón brothers.

In Tijuana, under torture, Flores gives Salazar the names of Obregón cartel members, who are arrested. Javier and Salazar's efforts cripple the Obregóns' cocaine outfit, but Javier discovers that Salazar is a pawn of the rival Juárez Cartel; Salazar's anti-drug campaign is a charade to wipe out the Juárez Cartel's competitors.

Sanchez attempts to sell information about Salazar's true affiliation to the Drug Enforcement Administration, but Salazar has him murdered in the desert with Javier forced to watch. Javier arranges a deal with the DEA to testify against Salazar in exchange for electricity in his neighborhood to keep local children from being tempted by street gangs and crime. Salazar's secrets are revealed, and he is arrested.

Javier makes a statement to the media about the widespread corruption in the police force and army. Later, Javier watches as children play baseball at night in their new stadium.

Wakefield story lineEdit

Robert Wakefield, a conservative Ohio judge, is appointed to head the President's Office of National Drug Control Policy as drug czar, though he is warned that the War on Drugs is unwinnable. Meanwhile, Robert's teenage daughter Caroline has been using cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, developing a drug addiction after her boyfriend Seth introduces her to freebasing. Caroline, Seth, and their friend Vanessa are arrested when they try to dump an overdosing fellow student at a hospital. Robert and his wife Barbara struggle to deal with Caroline's addiction, which Barbara has secretly known about for months.

Robert finds himself caught between his demanding new position and difficult family life. Visiting Mexico, he is encouraged by Salazar's successful efforts in hurting the Obregón brothers. Returning to Ohio, Robert learns that Caroline has run away to Cincinnati after stealing money from her parents to pay for drugs.

Dragging Seth along, Robert searches Cincinnati for his daughter. After a drug dealer who is prostituting Caroline refuses to reveal her whereabouts, Robert breaks into a seedy hotel room and finds a semi-conscious Caroline in the company of an older man. In Washington, D.C. to present a "10-point plan" to win the War on Drugs, Robert falters halfway through the speech, and tells the press that the War on Drugs implies a war on one's own family, which he cannot endorse. Later, Robert and Barbara attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting with Caroline, telling the other attendees that they are "here to listen".

Ayala/DEA story lineEdit

In San Diego, an undercover DEA investigation led by Montel Gordon and Ray Castro leads to the arrest of Eduardo Ruiz, a dealer posing as a fisherman. Ruiz gives up his boss, drug lord Carl Ayala, the Obregóns' biggest distributor in the United States. Ayala is indicted by a tough prosecutor, hand-selected by Robert Wakefield to send a message to the cartels.

As Ayala's trial begins, his pregnant wife Helena learns of her husband's true profession from his associate, Arnie Metzger. Facing the prospect of life imprisonment for her husband and death threats against her child, Helena hires Flores to assassinate Ruiz and end the trial nolle prosequi. Flores plants a car bomb, but he is killed by a sniper in retaliation for his cooperation with General Salazar, and the bomb meant to kill Ruiz instead kills Agent Castro.

Knowing Ruiz will soon testify, Helena makes a deal with Juan Obregón, who forgives the Ayala family's debt and has Ruiz poisoned. Ayala is released, and he deduces that Metzger accepted $3 million to inform on Ruiz to the FBI and facilitate Ayala's downfall; Metzger is later visited by armed men. Soon after Ayala's release, Gordon bursts into his homecoming celebration and is forced out. Having planted a listening device under Ayala's desk, Gordon smiles as he walks away.

Relationship to actual eventsEdit

Some aspects of the plotline are based on actual people and events:

At one point in the film, an El Paso Intelligence Center agent tells Robert his position, official in charge of drug control, does not exist in Mexico. As noted in the original script, a Director of the Instituto Nacional para el Combate a las Drogas was created by the Attorney General of Mexico in 1996.

CastEdit

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ProductionEdit

DevelopmentEdit

Steven Soderbergh had been interested in making a film about the drug wars for some time but did not want to make one about addicts.<ref name="Hope">Template:Cite news</ref> Producer Laura Bickford obtained the rights to the British television miniseries Traffik (1989) and liked its structure. Soderbergh, who had seen the miniseries in 1990,<ref name="Lemons">Template:Cite news</ref> started looking for a screenwriter to adapt it into a film. They read a script by Stephen Gaghan called Havoc, about upper-class white kids in Palisades High School doing drugs and getting involved with gangs.<ref name="Divine">Template:Cite news</ref> Soderbergh approached Gaghan to work on his film but found he was already developing a film about drugs for producer/director Edward Zwick. Bickford and Soderbergh approached Zwick, who agreed to merge the two projects and come aboard as a producer.<ref name="Hope" />

Traffic was originally going to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, but it was put into turnaround unless actor Harrison Ford agreed to star. Soderbergh began shopping the film to other studios, but when Ford suddenly showed interest in Traffic, Fox's interest in the film was renewed; the studio took it out of turnaround.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Fox CEO Bill Mechanic championed the film, but he departed from the studio by the time the first draft was finished. It went back into turnaround.<ref name="Kaufman">Template:Cite news</ref> Mechanic had also wanted to make some changes to the script, but Soderbergh disagreed<ref name="Dargis">Template:Cite news</ref> and decided to shop the film to other major studios. They all turned him down because they were not confident in the prospects of a three-hour film about drugs, according to Gaghan.<ref name="Divine" /> USA Films, however, had wanted to take on the movie from the first time Soderbergh approached them.<ref name="Kaufman" /> They provided the filmmakers with a $46 million budget, a considerable increase from the $25 million which Fox offered.<ref name="Dargis" />

ScreenplayEdit

Soderbergh had "conceptual discussions" with Gaghan while he was shooting The Limey in October 1998; they finished the outline before he went off to shoot Erin Brockovich.<ref name="Hope" /> After Soderbergh was finished with that film, Gaghan had written a first draft in six weeks that was 165 pages long.<ref name="Divine" /> After the film was approved for production, Soderbergh and Gaghan met two separate times for three days to reformat the script.<ref name="Divine" /> The draft they shot had 163 pages with 135 speaking parts and featured seven cities.<ref name="Hope" /> The film shortens the story line of the original miniseries; a significant character arc of a farmer is taken out, and the Pakistani plotline is replaced with one set in Mexico.<ref name="Lemons" />

CastingEdit

Harrison Ford was initially considered for the role of Robert Wakefield in January 2000 but would have had to take a significant cut in his usual $20 million salary.<ref name="Daly" /> Ford met with Soderbergh to flesh out the character. Gaghan agreed to rework the role, adding several scenes to the screenplay. On February 20, Ford turned down the role, and the filmmakers brought it back to Michael Douglas, who had turned down an earlier draft. He liked the changes and agreed to star, which helped greenlight the project.<ref name="Daly" /> Gaghan believes Ford turned down the role because he wanted to "reconnect with his action fans".<ref name="Divine" />

The filmmakers sent out letters to many politicians, both Democrat and Republican, asking them to make cameo appearances in the film. Several of the scenes had already been shot using actors in these roles, but the filmmakers went back and reshot those scenes when real politicians agreed to be in the film.<ref>Conversations with Ross: "Featuring Sam Jaeger" Template:Webarchive. RossCarey.com. Retrieved 2012-03-03.</ref> Those who agreed, including U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Orrin Hatch, Charles Grassley, and Don Nickles, and Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, were filmed in a scene that was entirely improvised.<ref name="Lemons" />

Pre-productionEdit

The project was obtained from Fox by Initial Entertainment Group and was sold to USA Films by IEG for North American rights only. Steven Soderbergh never approached USA Films, and Initial Entertainment Group fully funded the film.

After Fox dropped the film in early 2000, and before USA Films expressed interest, Soderbergh paid for pre-production with his own money.<ref name="Divine" /> USA Films agreed to give him the final cut on Traffic and also agreed to his term that all the Mexican characters would speak Spanish while talking to each other.<ref name="Daly">Template:Cite magazine</ref> This meant that almost all of Benicio del Toro's dialogue would be subtitled. Once the studio realized this, they suggested that his scenes be shot in English and Spanish, but Soderbergh and del Toro rejected the suggestion.<ref name="Daly" /> Del Toro, a native of Puerto Rico,<ref name="Méndez-Méndez Mendez Cueto Deynes 2003 p. 139">Template:Cite book</ref> was worried that another actor would be brought in and re-record his dialogue in English after he had worked hard to master Mexican inflections and improve his Spanish vocabulary. Del Toro remembers: "Can you imagine? You do the whole movie, bust your butt to get it as realistic as possible, and someone dubs your voice? I said, 'No way. Over my dead body.' Steven was like, 'Don't worry. It's not gonna happen.'"<ref name="Daly" /> The director fought for subtitles for the Mexico scenes, arguing that if the characters did not speak Spanish, the film would have no integrity and would not convincingly portray what he described as the "impenetrability of another culture".<ref name="Lemons" />

The filmmakers went to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Customs early on with the script; they told them that they were trying to present as detailed and accurate a picture of the current drug war as possible.<ref name="Lemons" /> The DEA and Customs pointed out inaccuracies in the script. In addition, they gave the production team access to the border checkpoint to Mexico, as shown in the film during the scene in which Wakefield and his people talk with border officials. Despite the assistance, the DEA did not try to influence the script's content.<ref name="Lemons" /> Soderbergh said Traffic had influences from the films of Richard Lester and Jean-Luc Godard. He also spent time analyzing The Battle of Algiers and Z, which, according to the director, had the feeling that the footage was "caught" and not staged.<ref name="Kaufman" /> Another inspiration was Alan J. Pakula's film All the President's Men because of its ability to tackle serious issues while being entertaining.<ref name="Lyman">Template:Cite news</ref> In the opening credits of the film, Soderbergh tried to replicate the typeface from All the President's Men and the placement on-screen at the bottom left-hand corner. Analyzing this film helped the director deal with the large cast and working in many different locations for Traffic.<ref name="Lyman" />

Principal photographyEdit

Half of the first day's footage came out overexposed and unusable.<ref name="Daly" /> Before the financiers or studio bosses knew about the problem, Soderbergh was already doing reshoots. The insurers made him agree that any further mishaps resulting in additional filming would come from the director's pocket.<ref name="Daly" /> Soderbergh shot in various cities in California, Ohio, and Texas, on a 54-day schedule and came in $2 million under budget.<ref name="Hope" /> The director acted as his cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews and operated the camera himself to "get as close to the movie as I can" and to eliminate the distance between the actors and himself.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Hope" /> Soderbergh drew inspiration from the cinema verite style of Ken Loach's films, studying the framing of scenes, the distance of the camera to the actors, lens length, and the tightness of eyelines depending on the position of a character. Soderbergh remembers, "I noticed that there's a space that's inviolate, that if you get within something, you cross the edge into a more theatrical aesthetic as opposed to a documentary aesthetic".<ref name="Hope" /> Most of the day was spent shooting because a lot of the film was shot with available light.<ref name="Kaufman" />

For the hand-held camera footage, Soderbergh used Panavision Millennium XLs that were smaller and lighter than previous cameras and allowed him to move freely.<ref name="Hope" /> He adopted a distinctive look for each to tell the three stories apart. For Robert Wakefield's story, Soderbergh used tungsten film with no filter for a cold, monochrome blue feel.<ref name="Hope" /> For Helena Ayala's story, Soderbergh used diffusion filters, flashing the film and overexposing it for a warmer feel. For Javier Rodriguez's story, the director used tobacco filters and a 45-degree shutter angle whenever possible to produce a strobe-like sharp feeling.<ref name="Hope" /> Then, he took the entire film through an Ektachrome step, which increased the contrast and grain significantly.<ref name="Hope" /> He wanted different looks for each story because the audience had to keep track of many characters and absorb a lot of information, and he did not want them to have to figure out which story they were watching.<ref name="Lemons" />

Benicio del Toro had significant input into certain parts of the film; for example, he suggested a more straightforward, concise way of depicting his character kidnapping Francisco Flores that Soderbergh ended up using.<ref name="Lemons" /> The director cut a scene from the screenplay in which Robert Wakefield smokes crack after finding it in his daughter's bedroom. After rehearsing this scene with the actors, he felt that the character would not do it; after consulting with Gaghan, the screenwriter agreed, and the filmmakers cut the scene shortly before it was scheduled to be shot.<ref name="Divine" />

Rancho Bernardo, Balboa Park,<ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> downtown San Diego and La Jolla were utilized as the environment for the film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Post-productionEdit

The first cut of Traffic ran three hours and ten minutes.<ref name="Hope" /> Soderbergh cut it to two hours and twenty minutes. Early on, there were concerns that the film might get an NC-17 rating, and he was prepared to release it with that rating, but the MPAA assigned it an R.<ref name="Hope" />

ReleaseEdit

Home mediaEdit

In the United States, the film was released on DVD on May 28, 2002, by The Criterion Collection.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Australia, Traffic was released on DVD by Village Roadshow, with an MA15+ rating. Despite the Australian packaging stating the length to be 124 minutes, the actual DVD version is just over 141 minutes long.

ReceptionEdit

Box office performanceEdit

Traffic was given a limited release on December 27, 2000, in four theaters where it grossed Template:USD on its opening weekend. It was given a wide release on January 5, 2001, in 1,510 theaters, grossing $15.5 million on its opening weekend. The film made $124.1 million in North America and $83.4 million in foreign markets for a worldwide total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $46 million budget.<ref name="Dargis" /><ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Critical responseEdit

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 223 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Soderbergh successfully pulls off the highly ambitious Traffic, a movie with three different stories and a very large cast. The issues of ethics are gray rather than black-and-white, with no clear-cut good guys. Terrific acting all around."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On Metacritic, the film has received an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, and wrote: "The movie is powerful precisely because it doesn't preach. It is so restrained that at one moment—the judge's final speech—I wanted one more sentence, making a point, but the movie lets us supply that thought for ourselves".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Stephen Holden, in his review for The New York Times, wrote: "Traffic is an utterly gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Or rather it is several interwoven thrillers, each with its own tense rhythm and explosive payoff".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote: "Traffic marks [Soderbergh] definitively as an enormous talent, one who never lets us guess what he's going to do next. The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A" rating and praised Benicio del Toro's performance, which critic Owen Gleiberman called, "haunting in his understatement, [it] becomes the film's quietly awakening moral center".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Desson Howe, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote: "Soderbergh and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, who based this on a British television miniseries of the same name, have created an often exhilarating, soup-to-nuts exposé of the world's most lucrative trade".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers wrote: "The hand-held camerawork – Soderbergh himself did the holding—provides a documentary feel that rivets attention".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> However, Richard Schickel of Time, in a rare negative review, finds the film's biggest weakness to be that it contains the "cliches of a hundred crime movies" before concluding that "Traffic, for all its earnestness, does not work. It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In an interview, director Ingmar Bergman lauded the film as "amazing".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

AccoladesEdit

Steven Soderbergh received dual nominations for Best Director that year for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic, winning the award for the latter.

Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards Best Picture Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, and Laura Bickford Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Stephen Gaghan Template:Won
Best Film Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Won
ALMA Awards Outstanding Feature Film Template:Won
Outstanding Latino Cast in a Feature Film Template:Won
Outstanding Soundtrack or Compilation for Television and Film Template:Nom
Amanda Awards Best Foreign Feature Film Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
American Film Institute Awards Top 10 Movies of the Year Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Artios Awards Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Drama Debra Zane Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom <ref name="Berlinale 2001">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Black Reel Awards Best Supporting Actor Don Cheadle Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Actor – Drama Michael Douglas Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Favorite Supporting Actor – Drama Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama Catherine Zeta-Jones Template:Nom
BMI Film & TV Awards Film Music Award Cliff Martinez Template:Won
Bodil Awards Best American Film Template:Nom
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Draw <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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British Academy Film Awards Best Direction Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Actor in a Supporting Role Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Won
Best Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
British Society of Cinematographers Awards Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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César Awards Best Foreign Film Anthony Minghella Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones Template:Nom
Best Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Chlotrudis Awards Best Movie Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Cast Template:Nom
Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Contemporary Film Louise Frogley Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Critics' Choice Movie Awards Top 10 Films Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Picture Template:Nom
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:WonTemplate:Efn
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Top 10 Films Template:Won
Best Film Template:Won
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones Template:Nom
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Motion Picture Stephen Gaghan Template:Small;
Simon Moore Template:Small 		Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Empire Awards Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best British Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones Template:Nom
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Foreign Film Template:Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Gold Derby Awards Best Supporting Actor of the Decade Template:Nom
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Catherine Zeta-Jones Template:Nom
Best Director – Motion Picture Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Stephen Gaghan Template:Won
Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing – Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film Larry Blake and Aaron Glascock Template:Nom
Grammy Awards Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or
Other Visual Media 		Cliff Martinez Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Humanitas Prize Feature Film Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Imagen Awards Best Theatrical Feature Film Template:Nom
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Foreign Language Film Director Template:Won
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Actor Michael Douglas Template:Nom
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Original Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Film Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Runner-up
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Runner-up
Manaki Brothers Film Festival Golden Camera 300 Template:Nom
MTV Movie Awards Breakthrough Female Performance Erika Christensen Template:Won
Nastro d'Argento Best Foreign Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films Template:Draw <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Film Template:Draw <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio Del Toro Template:Won
Best Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Draw
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Draw
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Small Template:Won
Best Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Runner-up
Best Supporting Actor Template:Won
Online Film & Television Association Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Picture Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, and Laura Bickford Template:Won
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best Youth Performance Erika Christensen Template:Nom
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Casting Debra Zane Template:Won
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Film Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
Best Sound Template:Nom
Best Ensemble Template:Won
Best Titles Sequence Template:Nom
Best Official Film Website Template:Nom
Online Film Critics Society Awards Top 10 Films Template:Draw <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Picture Template:Nom
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:WonTemplate:Efn
Best Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
Best Ensemble Template:Nom
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Picture Template:Nom
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Film Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
Political Film Society Awards Exposé Template:Nom
Prism Awards Theatrical Feature Film Template:Won
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Satellite Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Benicio del Toro Template:Nom
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Nom
Best Art Direction Keith P. Cunningham Template:Nom
Best Cinematography Steven Soderbergh Template:Nom
Best Editing Stephen Mirrione Template:Nom
Best Original Score Cliff Martinez Template:Nom
Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble Template:Won
Saturn Awards Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Benjamin Bratt, James Brolin, Don Cheadle,
Erika Christensen, Clifton Collins Jr., Benicio del Toro,
Michael Douglas, Albert Finney, Topher Grace,
Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid, and Catherine Zeta-Jones 		Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Benicio del Toro Template:Won
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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro Template:Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Stephen Gaghan Template:Won
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Breakout Erika Christensen Template:Nom
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Template:Runner-up <ref name="TFCA Awards 2000">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Best Director Steven Soderbergh Template:Won
Best Male Performance Benicio Del Toro Template:Won
Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film Template:Draw
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Top ten listsEdit

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