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{{Short description|2001 film by Cameron Crowe}}
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| name           = Vanilla Sky
| image          = Vanilla Sky poster.png
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Cameron Crowe]]
| producer       = {{plainlist|
* [[Tom Cruise]]
* [[Paula Wagner]]
* Cameron Crowe
}}
| screenplay     = Cameron Crowe
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Abre los Ojos]]''|[[Alejandro Amenábar]]|[[Mateo Gil]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|<!-- Per poster -->
* Tom Cruise
* [[Penélope Cruz]]
* [[Kurt Russell]]
* [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]]
* [[Noah Taylor]]
* [[Cameron Diaz]]
}}
| music          = [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]]
| cinematography = [[John Toll]]
| editing        = {{Unbulleted list|[[Joe Hutshing]]|[[Mark Livolsi]]}}
| studio         = {{Unbulleted list|[[Cruise/Wagner Productions]]|[[Vinyl Films]]|[[Sogecine]]|[[Summit Entertainment]]<ref name="bfi">{{cite web|title=Vanilla Sky (2001)|work=[[British Film Institute]]|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8576f417|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320110806/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8576f417|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 20, 2018}}</ref>}}
| distributor    = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|2001|12|14}}
| runtime        = 136 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $68 million<ref name="bom" />
| gross          = $203.4 million<ref name="bom" />
}}

'''''Vanilla Sky''''' is a 2001 American [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[psychological thriller]] film<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/vanilla-sky-v255994|title=Vanilla Sky (2001) - Cameron Crowe|website=[[AllMovie]]|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043836/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/vanilla-sky-v255994|url-status=live}}</ref> directed, written, and co-produced by [[Cameron Crowe]]. It is an English-language remake of [[Alejandro Amenábar]]'s 1997 Spanish film ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]'', which was written by Amenábar and [[Mateo Gil]]. The film stars [[Tom Cruise]] in the main role, [[Penélope Cruz]], [[Kurt Russell]], [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]], [[Noah Taylor]] and [[Cameron Diaz]]. It follows a magazine publisher who begins to question reality after being disfigured in a car crash.

''Vanilla Sky'' grossed more than $203 million worldwide against a production budget of $68 million and received mixed critical reception. Diaz's performance was widely praised, earning her a [[Screen Actors Guild Award|Screen Actors Guild]] and a [[Golden Globe Award]] nomination. The song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]" by [[Paul McCartney]] was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]. The film later gained a [[cult following]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-01-27|title=Revisiting Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/revisiting-cameron-crowes-vanilla-sky/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Den of Geek|archive-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104133204/https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/revisiting-cameron-crowes-vanilla-sky/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-08-30|title='Vanilla Sky' Getting Limited-Edition Blu-ray for Film's 20th Anniversary|url=https://collider.com/vanilla-sky-blu-ray-release-date-details-bonus-content/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Collider|archive-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104133204/https://collider.com/vanilla-sky-blu-ray-release-date-details-bonus-content/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Saalman|first=Austin|title=Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Vanilla Sky|url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/reflecting_on_the_20th_anniversary_of_vanilla_sky_news|access-date=2022-01-04|website=undertheradarmag.com|archive-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104133206/https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/reflecting_on_the_20th_anniversary_of_vanilla_sky_news|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Plot==
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David Aames, the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe. In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father's trusted associates while [[Playboy lifestyle|living as a playboy]] in [[Manhattan]]. He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party.

David and Sofia spend the night together at Sofia's apartment and fall in love, unaware that David's current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. She deliberately crashes the car, killing herself and disfiguring David. Doctors cannot repair his face using plastic surgery, forcing David to wear a prosthetic mask, and the mental and physical scarring from the accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed. David joins Brian and Sofia at a club, but they all leave after David starts an argument while drunk. After David insults them and they part ways, David passes out on the street outside the club.

The next day, Sofia returns and apologises to David. She takes him home; the two form a relationship; and he slowly begins to recover. After surgeons find a way to repair David's face despite their prior prognosis, he is plagued by bizarre experiences - such as brief flashbacks of his disfigurement and an encounter with a mysterious man at a bar who informs him that David is omnipotent, demonstrated by the entire bar falling silent at David's command. One day, while at Sofia's, David awakens to find himself in bed with Julie, whose face has replaced Sofia's in their photographs. In shock, he suffocates Julie. David is arrested and imprisoned and his facial disfigurement is mysteriously restored.

McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name "Life Extension". Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. Rebecca Dearborn, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses [[cryonic]] suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until a cure can be found, keeping them in a [[lucid dream]] state to otherwise exercise their mind. David realises that he is in cryonic suspension and that the world he inhabits is his lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for "[[technical support|tech support]]", and rushes for the building's lobby, which is suddenly empty. An elevator opens, revealing the strange man from the bar. As the elevator climbs to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man explains that he is Tech Support and that David has been in suspension for 150 years.

Unable to face the twin traumas of the loss of his love, Sofia, and his facial injuries, he had opted for Life Extension, to be awakened when technology could repair his face, and left the publishing company in the hands of his father's associates, ultimately overdosing on medication and causing Brian to arrange a three-day memorial for him in his home. As part of the programme, David had chosen to experience a lucid dream, in which his life would resume the morning after Sofia left him; however, a glitch in the software had caused other elements of his subconscious to distort his dream.

David and Tech Support emerge on the rooftop, high above the clouds. There, Tech Support tells David that although they have corrected the flaw, he now has a choice of either being returned to the dream or being restored to life, requiring a literal [[leap of faith]] off the roof that will wake him from his sleep. David chooses the latter, despite McCabe warning him against it. Before jumping, David envisions Brian and Sofia to say his goodbyes. He leaps from the edge of the building, and his life flashes before him. A female voice invites him to open his eyes, and the movie ends with a shot of his eye opening and looking at the audience.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Tom Cruise]] as David Aames
* [[Cameron Diaz]] as Julianna "Julie" Gianni
* [[Penélope Cruz]] as Sofia Serrano
* [[Kurt Russell]] as Dr. Curtis McCabe
* [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]] as Brian Shelby
* [[Noah Taylor]] as Edmund Ventura / Tech Support
* [[Timothy Spall]] as Thomas Tipp
* [[Tilda Swinton]] as Rebecca Dearborn
* [[Michael Shannon]] as Aaron
* [[Shalom Harlow]] as Colleen
* [[Oona Hart]] as Lynette
* [[Ivana Miličević]] as Emma
* [[Johnny Galecki]] as Peter Brown
* [[Alicia Witt]] as Libby
* [[Ken Leung]] as art editor
* [[Conan O'Brien]] as himself
* [[Tommy Lee]] as a frozen vintage car man
* [[Laura Fraser]] as The Future
* [[Steven Spielberg]] as a guest at David's party (uncredited)
}}

==Production==
===Development===
{{quote box|quote=In the days after completing ''[[Almost Famous]]'', the opportunity to keep our film-making team together was too attractive to pass up. I'd always written my own original screenplays, but ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]'', with its open-ended and impressionistic themes, felt like a great song for our 'band' to [[Cover version|cover]].|source=—[[Cameron Crowe]], explaining his reason for directing ''Vanilla Sky''.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite web |last1=Crowe |first1=Cameron |title=So lonely I could cry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/11/artsfeatures2 |website=the Guardian |access-date=August 17, 2013 |date=January 11, 2002 |archive-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613003933/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/11/artsfeatures2 |url-status=live }}</ref>|width=35%|align=right}}

After the American debut of [[Alejandro Amenábar]]'s 1997 Spanish film [[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|''Abre los ojos'' (''Open Your Eyes'')]] at the 1998 [[Sundance Film Festival]], [[Tom Cruise]] and his producing partner [[Paula Wagner]] optioned the remake rights. Hoping to entice director [[Cameron Crowe]], who collaborated with Cruise on ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'', Cruise invited Crowe over to his house to view the film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rodriquez|first=Rene|title='Jerry Maguire' Director, Star Reteam|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20011219&id=y1FIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6364,7352841|work=[[The Miami Herald]]|publisher=[[The Ledger|Lakeland Ledger]]|access-date=August 17, 2013|page=D6|date=December 19, 2001|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507165534/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20011219&id=y1FIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6364,7352841|url-status=live}}</ref> Cruise has stated:

<blockquote>I've been offered a lot of films to buy and remake, and I never have because I felt it was too connected with the culture of that place, whatever country it was from. But this was a universal story that was still open-ended, that still felt like it needed another chapter to be told.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Majumdar |first1=Devdoot |title=Interview: Vanilla Skies Ahead |journal=[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]] |date=December 11, 2001 |issue=66 |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N66/Vanilla_Sky.66a.html |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222200402/http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N66/Vanilla_Sky.66a.html |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Claude Monet - The Seine at Argenteuil 1873.jpg|thumb|right|The title ''Vanilla Sky'' refers to the sky as painted by [[Claude Monet]], specifically as in ''[[The Seine at Argenteuil]]'' (1873) which is featured in the film.]]
The title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by [[Claude Monet]].<ref name="dvdcommentary">Mentioned by the director in the [[Audio commentary (DVD)|commentary track]] for the DVD release.</ref> In addition to Monet's [[impressionistic]] artwork, the film's tone was derived from the acoustic ballad "By Way of Sorrow" by [[Julie Miller]] and a line from an early interview of [[Elvis Presley]] in which he said, "I feel lonely, even in a crowded room."<ref name="theguardian"/>

===Filming===
Principal photography for ''Vanilla Sky'' began in late 2000 and lasted six weeks.<ref name="Uncool">{{cite web |title=Vanilla Sky Production Notes |url=http://www.theuncool.com/films/vanilla-sky/vanilla-sky-production-notes/ |website=The Uncool |publisher=[[Paramount Pictures]] |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315114021/http://www.theuncool.com/films/vanilla-sky/vanilla-sky-production-notes/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="guild">{{cite web |title=John Toll, ASC |url=https://www.cameraguild.com/AboutUs/memberspotlightcustom/member-spotlight-john-toll.aspx |website=Local 600: International Cinematographers Guild |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719150553/https://www.cameraguild.com/AboutUs/memberspotlightcustom/member-spotlight-john-toll.aspx |archive-date=July 19, 2012 |date=August 11, 2001}}</ref> On November 12, 2000, shooting for the scene of the deserted [[Times Square]] in [[New York City|New York]] took place in the early hours of the day. A large section of traffic was blocked off around Times Square while the scene was shot. "There was a limit on how long the city would let us lock everything up even on an early Sunday morning when much of NYC would be slow getting up," said [[Steadicam]] operator Larry McConkey. "Several times we rehearsed with Steadicam and Crane including a mockup of an unmovable guardrail that we had to work the crane arm around. [Cruise] participated in these rehearsals as well so we shared a clear understanding of what my limitations and requirements would be."<ref>{{cite web |last1=McConkey |first1=Larry |title="Empty Times Square" |url=http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=189 |website=SteadiShots.org |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-date=May 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522130710/http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=189 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Filming lasted for six weeks around the [[New York City]] area, which included scenes in [[Central Park]], the [[Upper West Side]], [[SoHo]], and [[Brooklyn]]. One prominent location in the area was the [[Condé Nast Building]] that served as Aames Publishing and David's office. After filming finished in New York, production moved to [[Los Angeles]], where the remaining interior shots were completed at [[Paramount Studios]].<ref name="Uncool"/> Crowe intentionally left in shots of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] after the [[September 11 attacks]] as a tribute.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Christopher Zara |title=One World Trade: Film And TV Producers Navigate New York's Rapidly Changing Skyline |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/one-world-trade-film-and-tv-producers-navigate-new-york%E2%80%99s-rapidly-changing-skyline-782553 |website=[[International Business Times]] |access-date=February 23, 2016 |date=September 11, 2012 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305102840/http://www.ibtimes.com/one-world-trade-film-and-tv-producers-navigate-new-york%E2%80%99s-rapidly-changing-skyline-782553 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Despite the film's distorted aspects of reality, the style of [[cinematography]] remains grounded for much of the film. "I didn't do anything that was overtly obvious, because the story revolves around the main character not knowing whether he's in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so we want it to feel a little ambiguous," said cinematographer [[John Toll]]. "We want the audience to make discoveries as [Cruise]'s character does, rather than ahead of him."<ref name="guild"/> ''[[American Cinematographer]]'' magazine wrote a feature story on the lighting designer [[Lee Rose (lighting designer)|Lee Rose]]'s work on the film.<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[American Cinematographer]] |title=The Man Behind the Mask |author=Jay Holben |date=March 2002 |pages=52–55}}</ref>

===Alternate ending===
The 2015 Blu-ray release offers the option to watch the film with an alternative ending. This ending expands on the details at the end of the film. While it all leads to the same conclusion, there are additional scenes, alternative takes, and alternative dialogue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/29/blu-ray-review-vanilla-sky-alternate-ending/|title=Blu-ray review: Vanilla Sky with Alternate Ending|website=The Washington Times|last=Szadkowski|first=Joseph|date=June 29, 2015|access-date=May 4, 2021|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505014153/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/29/blu-ray-review-vanilla-sky-alternate-ending/|url-status=live}}</ref>

After Rebecca describes the lucid dream, David rushes out of the room but does not immediately dash towards the elevator. He meets McCabe in the restroom who tries to convince him that this is all a hoax and a con and that his case is going to trial. David tells him that he's only in his imagination. Much like in the theatrical cut, the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" plays, but this version makes it clear that David hears the music and that he chose it; meanwhile, McCabe tries to convince him there is no music.

At this point, David dashes out of the restroom for the elevator the way he does in the theatrical cut, but the scene in the lobby is expanded: David shoots the police officer who is firing at him and is then surrounded by a SWAT team whom McCabe tries to talk down, but the SWAT team fires at both of them. They black out and wake up in the emptied lobby where McCabe continues to applaud what he believes is a performance while David gets into the elevator with Ventura, who tells him what happened at the end of his real life.

Once they reach the roof, McCabe reenters again and his pleas to David not to believe Ventura become more and more desperate until he collapses onto the ground in despair. David's interaction with Sofia is extended as he tells her he loves her but "can't settle for a dream". He then jumps off the building, screaming "I want to wake up!" as images from his life flash before his eyes. He wakes up in bed and a voice tells him "Open your eyes. You're going to be fine."

==Music==
{{main|Music from Vanilla Sky}}

''Vanilla Sky''<nowiki/>'s score was by Crowe's then wife, [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]], who also scored ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' and ''[[Almost Famous]]''. Wilson spent nine months on the film's music, which was done through experimentation of [[sound collage]]s. "We were trying to balance out the heaviness of the story with sugary pop-culture music," she said. "We made sound collages of all kinds. We were channeling [[Brian Wilson]] to a large extent. I was recording things through hoses, around corners, playing guitars with cello bows, and with [music editor] Carl Kaller, we tried all kinds of wacky stuff. In the murder–sex scene sound collage, Cameron even used Brian Wilson's speaking voice from a ''[[Pet Sounds]]'' mix session."<ref>{{cite web |author1=Maura Kelly |title=An Interview with Nancy Wilson |url=https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-nancy-wilson/ |website=[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]] |access-date=August 16, 2013 |date=August 1, 2007 |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203060003/https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-nancy-wilson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Besides the publicly available soundtrack album, [[Music from Vanilla Sky]], the original score was released as a "[[For Your Consideration (advertising)|for your consideration]]" release for Academy Awards nomination and never released publicly for sale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nancy Wilson – Vanilla Sky on Discogs |website=[[Discogs]] |date=2001 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/8923961-Nancy-Wilson-Vanilla-Sky}}</ref>

The [[Vanilla Sky (song)|eponymous song]] from the soundtrack, written and recorded by [[Paul McCartney]], was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2002 |title=The 74th Academy Awards - 2002 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 4, 2015 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001230532/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2002 |url-status=live }}</ref> Additional songs featured included [[Radiohead]]'s song "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]", and "[[Svefn-g-englar]]" by the Icelandic group [[Sigur Rós]].<ref name="Ruhlmann 2001">{{cite web | last=Ruhlmann | first=William | title=Music from Vanilla Sky - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits | website=AllMusic | date=2001-12-04 | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000656884 | access-date=2022-03-11 | archive-date=March 11, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311102609/https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000656884 | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Interpretations==
According to Cameron Crowe's commentary, there are five different interpretations of the ending:<ref>{{Cite web|last=Handler|first=Rachel|date=2020-05-21|title=Cameron Crowe Is Finally Ready to Tell Us Vanilla Sky's Secrets|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/cameron-crowes-vanilla-sky-easter-eggs.html|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Vulture|language=en-us|archive-date=February 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213090925/https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/cameron-crowes-vanilla-sky-easter-eggs.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
# "Tech support" is telling the truth: 150 years have passed since Aames killed himself and subsequent events form a [[lucid dream]].
# The entire film is a dream, evidenced by a sticker on Aames's car that reads "2/30/01" ([[February 30]] does not occur in the [[Gregorian calendar]]).
# The events after the crash are a dream Aames has while comatose.
# The entire film is the plot of the book that Brian is writing.
# The entire film after the crash is a hallucination caused by drugs administered during Aames's [[reconstructive surgery]].

Crowe notes that the presence of a "Vanilla Sky" during the morning reunion after the nightclub scene marks the first lucid dream scene, and that everything that follows from then on is a dream.<ref name="dvdcommentary"/>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Vanilla Sky'' opened at number one at the box office in the United States when it was first presented on December 14, 2001. The opening weekend took in a gross income of $25,015,518 (24.9%).<ref>{{cite web|last=Linder|first=Brian|title=Weekend Box Office: Sky Soars|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/12/18/weekend-box-office-sky-soars|publisher=IGN|access-date=May 13, 2023|date=December 18, 2001|archive-date=May 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513143614/https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/12/18/weekend-box-office-sky-soars|url-status=live}}</ref> The final domestic gross income was $100.61 million while the international gross income was slightly higher at $102.76 million for a total worldwide gross income of $203.39 million.<ref name="bom">{{cite web |title= Vanilla Sky (2001) |url= https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=vanillasky.htm |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date= December 16, 2009 |archive-date= December 18, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091218115309/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=vanillasky.htm |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Critical response===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 42% of 173 critic reviews are positive and the average rating is 5.3/10. The site's consensus states: "An ambitious mix of genres, ''Vanilla Sky'' collapses into an incoherent jumble. Cruise's performance lacks depth, and it's hard to feel sympathy for his narcissistic character."<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vanilla_sky/ |title= Vanilla Sky |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= March 5, 2025 |archive-date= March 29, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100329163146/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vanilla_sky/ |url-status= live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title= Vanilla Sky |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/vanilla-sky |website= [[Metacritic]] |access-date= February 22, 2020 |archive-date= December 20, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211220102837/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/vanilla-sky |url-status= live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade "D−" on a scale from A to F.<ref>{{cite web |date= 9 August 2014 |last= Busch |first= Anita |title= B Grade For 'Turtles': What CinemaScores Mean And Why Exit Polling Matters |url= https://deadline.com/2014/08/b-grade-for-turtles-what-cinemascores-mean-and-why-exit-polling-matters-816538/ |website= [[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date= May 28, 2022 |archive-date= October 9, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221009080339/https://deadline.com/2014/08/b-grade-for-turtles-what-cinemascores-mean-and-why-exit-polling-matters-816538/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]]'s printed review of ''Vanilla Sky'' awarded the film three out of four stars:

{{Cquote|Think it all the way through, and Cameron Crowe's ''Vanilla Sky'' is a scrupulously moral picture. It tells the story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because—well, maybe because he has a [[conscience]]. Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times.}}

Ebert interpreted the ending as an explanation for "the mechanism of our confusion", rather than a device that tells "us for sure what actually happened."<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news |date=December 14, 2001 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Vanilla Sky |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/vanilla-sky-2001 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |via=RogerEbert.com |access-date=January 1, 2024 |archive-date=December 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217120338/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/vanilla-sky-2001 |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Film criticism|Film critic]] [[Richard Roeper]] ranked the film the second best of 2001.<ref name="Roeper">{{cite web |last= Roeper |first= Richard |author-link= Richard Roeper |title= Ebert and Roeper Top Ten Lists (2000-2005)) |url= http://www.innermind.com/misc/e_r_top.htm |website= The Inner Mind |access-date= February 24, 2013 |archive-date= December 17, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221217120339/http://www.innermind.com/misc/e_r_top.htm |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' calls ''Vanilla Sky'' a "highly entertaining, erotic [[science-fiction]] thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into [[Steven Spielberg]] territory", but then says: "As it leaves behind the real world and begins exploring life as a waking dream (this year's most popular theme in [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] movies with lofty ideas), ''Vanilla Sky'' loosens its emotional grip and becomes a disorganised and abstract if still-intriguing meditation on parallel themes. One is the quest for eternal life and eternal youth; another is guilt and the ungovernable power of the [[unconscious mind]] to undermine science's [[utopia]]n discoveries. David's redemption ultimately consists of his coming to grips with his own mortality, but that redemption lacks conviction."<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last= Holden |first= Stephen |author-link= Stephen Holden |title= FILM REVIEW; Plastic Surgery Takes A Science Fiction Twist |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEED8133FF937A25751C1A9679C8B63 |access-date= December 2, 2018 |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= December 14, 2001 |archive-date= October 13, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071013221729/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEED8133FF937A25751C1A9679C8B63 |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Salon.com]] called ''Vanilla Sky'' an "aggressively plotted puzzle picture, which clutches many allegedly deep themes to its heaving bosom without uncovering even an onion-skin layer of insight into any of them."<ref name="salon">{{cite web |last1=Zacharek |first1=Stephanie |title="Vanilla Sky" |url=http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/14/vanilla/index.html |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |date=12 April 2001 |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222025419/http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/14/vanilla/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The review [[Rhetorical question|rhetorically asks]]: "Who would have thought that Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as ''Vanilla Sky'' in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. ... But the disheartening truth is that we can see Crowe taking all the right steps, the most Crowe-like steps, as he mounts a spectacle that overshoots boldness and ambition and idiosyncrasy and heads right for arrogance and pretension—and those last two are traits I never would have thought we'd have to ascribe to Crowe."<ref name="salon"/> Edward Guthmann of the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] gave the film 2/4 and wrote: "The film's aim—to dazzle and inspire—is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance."<ref name="sfgate">{{cite news |date= December 14, 2001 |last= Guthmann |first= Edward |title= Vanilla guy / Smirky Tom Cruise lacks the depth for complex, surreal film |newspaper= [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |url= https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Vanilla-guy-Smirky-Tom-Cruise-lacks-the-depth-2839702.php |access-date= February 22, 2020 |archive-date= December 17, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221217120337/https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Vanilla-guy-Smirky-Tom-Cruise-lacks-the-depth-2839702.php |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |last= Bradshaw |first= Peter |author-link= Peter Bradshaw |title= Vanilla Sky |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/25/culture.reviews |website= The Guardian |access-date= May 27, 2010 |date= January 25, 2002 |archive-date= December 17, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221217120337/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/25/culture.reviews |url-status= live }}</ref> and Gareth Von Kallenbach of the publication ''[[Film Threat]]''<ref>{{cite web |author1=Gareth Von Kallebach |title=Vanilla Sky |url=https://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/2392/ |website=[[Film Threat]] |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123032805/http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/2392/ |archive-date=January 23, 2013 |date=December 11, 2001}}</ref> compared ''Vanilla Sky'' unfavorably to ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]''. Bradshaw says ''Open Your Eyes'' is "certainly more distinctive than" ''Vanilla Sky'', which he describes as an "extraordinarily narcissistic high-concept vanity project for producer-star Tom Cruise." Other reviewers extrapolate from the knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a version of Amenábar's film.<ref name="sfgate"/> A ''[[Village Voice]]'' reviewer characterized ''Vanilla Sky'' as "hauntingly frank about being a manifestation of its star's cosmic [[narcissism]]".<ref>{{cite web |author1=Michael Atkinson |title=Icon See Clearly Now |url=http://www.villagevoice.com:80/film/0150,atkinson,30650,20.html |website=[[The Village Voice]] |access-date=December 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403105246/http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0150,atkinson,30650,20.html |archive-date=April 3, 2008 |date=December 11, 2001 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kenneth Turan of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called [[Cameron Diaz]] "compelling as the embodiment of crazed sensuality"<ref>{{cite web |author1=Kenneth Turan |author-link= Kenneth Turan |title=From Paella to Pot Roast |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000099071dec14,0,1592334.story |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006180150/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000099071dec14,0,1592334.story |archive-date=October 6, 2008 |date=December 14, 2011}}</ref> and ''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewer said she gives a "ferociously emotional" performance.<ref name="nytimes"/> Edward Guthmann of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' similarly says of the film, "most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal-attraction stalker is both heartbreaking and terrifying."<ref name="sfgate" /> For her performance, Diaz won multiple critics' groups awards, as well as being nominated for the [[Golden Globe Award]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award]], [[Critics' Choice Movie Award]], [[Saturn Award]], and [[American Film Institute|AFI Award]]. [[Penélope Cruz]]'s performance earned her a [[Razzie Award]] nomination for Worst Actress (in addition to her roles in ''[[Blow (film)|Blow]]'' and ''[[Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)|Captain Corelli's Mandolin]]'').

===Awards===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Accolades for ''Vanilla Sky''
|-
! scope="col"| Organization
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Recipient(s)
! scope="col"| Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Ref heading}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Academy Awards]]
| [[74th Academy Awards|2002]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(for the song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]")</small>
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2002|title=The 74th Academy Awards – 2022|date=December 4, 2015|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=January 25, 2022|archive-date=October 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001230532/http://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2002|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[American Film Institute Awards|AFI Awards]]
| 2002
| Featured Actress of the Year
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|last=Goodridge|first=Mike|url=https://www.screendaily.com/afi-announces-first-annual-award-nominations/407823.article|title=AFI announces first annual award nominations|work=[[Screen International|Screen Daily]]|date=December 18, 2001|access-date=June 16, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[ALMA Award]]s
| rowspan="2"| 2002
| Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
| [[Penélope Cruz]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.almaawards.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=129|title=ALMA Awards 2002|publisher=[[UnidosUS]]|access-date=January 25, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021005041747/http://www.almaawards.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=129|archive-date=October 5, 2002}}</ref>}}
|-
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Boston Society of Film Critics|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2001|2001]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-2000s/|title=BSFC Winners 2000s|date=27 July 2018|publisher=[[Boston Society of Film Critics]]|access-date=January 25, 2022|archive-date=December 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209123949/https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-2000s/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Chicago Film Critics Association|Chicago Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2001|2001]]
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{won}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives|title=1988-2013 Awards Winners Archives|date=January 2013 |publisher=[[Chicago Film Critics Association]]|access-date=January 25, 2022|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410183233/https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[7th Critics' Choice Awards|2002]]
| [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/2001.php|title=The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards 2001|publisher=[[Critics Choice Association]]|access-date=January 25, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107093817/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/2001.php|archive-date=January 7, 2013}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song|Best Song]]
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(for the song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]")</small>
| {{won}}{{Efn|Tied with "[[May It Be]]" from ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association|Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2001|2002]]
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|title=8th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Awards|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2001/2001dfw.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017180650/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2001/2001dfw.htm|archive-date=17 October 2006|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=June 16, 2024}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[59th Golden Globe Awards|2002]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/vanilla-sky|title=''Vanilla Sky''|publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=January 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129101708/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/vanilla-sky|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(for the song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]")</small>
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Golden Raspberry Awards]]
| [[22nd Golden Raspberry Awards|2002]]
| [[Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress|Worst Actress]]{{Efn|also for ''[[Blow (film)|Blow]]'' and ''[[Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)|Captain Corelli's Mandolin]]''.}}
| [[Penélope Cruz]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1814018.stm|title=Freddy heads Razzies nominations|work=[[BBC News]]|date=February 11, 2002|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404070411/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1814018.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Motion Picture Sound Editors|Golden Reel Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| 2002
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film]]
| List of sound editors{{Efn|Michael D. Wilhoit (supervising sound editor); Kerry Dean Williams (supervising ADR editor); Laura Harris Atkinson (supervising dialogue editor); Tammy Fearing, Eliza Pollack Zebert (ADR editors); Mark Gordon, Vic Radulich, Clare C. Freeman, Susan Kurtz (dialogue editors).}}
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|last=Hobbs|first=John|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/sound-editors-tap-noms-for-golden-reel-awards-1117860492/|title=Sound editors tap noms for Golden Reel Awards|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 10, 2002|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=April 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422145627/https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/sound-editors-tap-noms-for-golden-reel-awards-1117860492/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore]]
| Carlton Kaller
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Grammy Awards]]
| [[45th Annual Grammy Awards|2003]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media|Best Song Written for Visual Media]]
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(for the song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]")</small>
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2003/music/news/45th-annual-grammy-award-nominations-1117878286/|title=45th Annual Grammy Award Nominations|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 7, 2003|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305030035/https://variety.com/2003/music/news/45th-annual-grammy-award-nominations-1117878286/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2"| [[Satellite Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[6th Golden Satellite Awards|2002]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| [[Paul McCartney]] <small>(for the song "[[Vanilla Sky (song)|Vanilla Sky]]")</small>
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressacademy.com/movienominations.htm|title=2001 Satellite Awards Nominations|publisher=[[International Press Academy]]|access-date=January 29, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020601235604/http://pressacademy.com/movienominations.htm|archive-date=June 1, 2002}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Cameron Crowe]] and [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]] <small>(for the song "I Fall Apart")</small>
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="6"| [[Saturn Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[28th Saturn Awards|2002]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film|Best Science Fiction Film]]
| ''Vanilla Sky''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="5"| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|title=28th Saturn Awards|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2001/2001sat.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017175649/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2001/2001sat.htm|archive-date=17 October 2006|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=January 29, 2022}}</ref>}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Tom Cruise]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Make-up|Best Make-Up]]
| [[Michèle Burke]] and Camille Calvet
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Music|Best Music]]
| [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[42nd Saturn Awards|2016]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release|Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release]]
| ''Vanilla Sky'' (Alternate Ending)
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/|title=The 42nd Annual Saturn Awards nominations are announced for 2016|publisher=[[Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films]]|access-date=January 29, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181620/http://www.saturnawards.org/|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref>}}
|-
! scope="row"| [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]]
| [[8th Screen Actors Guild Awards|2002]]
| [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Cameron Diaz]]
| {{nom}}
| {{center|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/8th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|title=The 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards|publisher=[[SAG-AFTRA]]|access-date=January 29, 2022|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720104917/https://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/8th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
|}

==Home media==
''Vanilla Sky'' was released on [[DVD]] and [[VHS]] on May 21, 2002,<ref>{{cite news |last=Churnin |first=Nancy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-pooh-charms-in-25th/124032416/ |title=Pooh charms in 25th anniversary video edition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506011045/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-pooh-charms-in-25th/124032416/ |date=May 17, 2002 |access-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |page=73 |work=Knight Ridder |publisher=[[The Greenville News]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> [[Blu-ray]] in 2015, and [[Ultra HD Blu-ray]] in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liebman |first=Martin |date=June 26, 2023 |title=Vanilla Sky 4K Blu-ray |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Vanilla-Sky-4K-Blu-ray/336288/#Review |website=Blu-ray.com |access-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810232419/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Vanilla-Sky-4K-Blu-ray/336288/#Review |url-status=live }}</ref>

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