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* AwardSnub: Was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 show for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. It was unable to win any of them, primarily because that was the year of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''[='s=] blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* AwardSnub: Was It was nominated for four Academy Awards UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s at the 1997 show for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. It was unable to win any of them, primarily because that was the year of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''[='s=] blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* OneSceneWonder: Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun.
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** The middle passage scenes will ''haunt'' you, especially the scene where the slavers decide to lighten the overloaded ship by attaching an anchor to an entire chain of people and letting it drag them screaming and struggling overboard.
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** The middle passage scenes will ''haunt'' you, especially the scene where the slavers decide to lighten the overloaded ship by attaching an anchor to an entire chain of people and letting it drag them screaming and struggling overboard. There's also slaves being flogged as they howl in pain, with a river of blood flowing down the deck.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Captain Fitzgerald is only in two scenes of the film but is a a very iconic character for his scene of TranquilFury and role as a military opponent of the slave trade.
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one, primarily because that was the year of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''[='s=] blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* AwardSnub: It was Was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards show for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't It was unable to win a single one, any of them, primarily because that was the year of ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''[='s=] blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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Not only is "15 years old" not hyphenated, but Anna Paquin was already an Oscar winner by the time she appeared in this film.
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** Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor in his first Hollywood role as Ensign James Covey, the interpreter for the slaves.
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** Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor in his first Hollywood role as Ensign James Covey, the interpreter for the slaves.
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one, primarily because that was the year of ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Titanic's]]'' blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one, primarily because that was the year of ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Titanic's]]'' ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''[='s=] blowout win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* TearJerker: The Middle Passage scene will ruin any day with its horror and brutality. Worst of all is when a pregnant woman dies in childbirth; another woman takes her newborn baby, and not long afterwards is DrivenToSuicide, throwing herself overboard after evidently deciding that she and the baby would be better off dead than living as slaves.
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* TearJerker: The Middle Passage scene will ruin any day with its horror and brutality. Worst of all is when a pregnant woman dies in childbirth; another woman takes her newborn baby, and not long afterwards is DrivenToSuicide, throwing herself overboard after evidently deciding that she and the baby would be better off dead than living as slaves.slaves.
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one, primarily because that was the year of ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Titanic's]]'' blowout win.
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one, primarily because that was the year of ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Titanic's]]'' blowout win.win -- albeit Creator/AnthonyHopkins was beaten to the Best Supporting Actor prize by Creator/RobinWilliams' turn in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (''Titanic'' wasn't nominated in that category).
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one.one, primarily because that was the year of ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Titanic's]]'' blowout win.
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* NightmareFuel: The middle passage scenes will ''haunt'' you, especially the scene where the slavers decide to lighten the overloaded ship by attaching an anchor to an entire chain of people and letting it drag them screaming and struggling overboard.
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** The middle passage scenes will ''haunt'' you, especially the scene where the slavers decide to lighten the overloaded ship by attaching an anchor to an entire chain of people and letting it drag them screaming and strugglingoverboard.overboard.
** The opening mutiny sequence, with Cinqué bloodying his fingers as he slowly digs a nail out of the deck to pick the lock on his shackles, and then the freed slaves graphically slaughtering most of their captors. It's made all the more haunting by the fact that it takes place in the middle of a thunderstorm, with what little lighting we do get mostly coming from lightning strikes.
** The middle passage scenes will ''haunt'' you, especially the scene where the slavers decide to lighten the overloaded ship by attaching an anchor to an entire chain of people and letting it drag them screaming and struggling
** The opening mutiny sequence, with Cinqué bloodying his fingers as he slowly digs a nail out of the deck to pick the lock on his shackles, and then the freed slaves graphically slaughtering most of their captors. It's made all the more haunting by the fact that it takes place in the middle of a thunderstorm, with what little lighting we do get mostly coming from lightning strikes.
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* TearJerker: The Middle Passage scene will ruin any day with its horror and brutality. Worst of all is when a pregnant woman dies in childbirth; another woman takes her newborn baby, and not long afterwards is DrivenToSuicide, throwing herself overboard after evidently deciding that she and the baby would be better off dead than living as slaves.
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* NarmCharm: The "Give us! Us free!" scene may look silly in context (Cinqué is shouting to the court room to free his people, while they look astonished and confused), but it is definitely a powerful and emotional moment, YouTakeNoCandle be damned.
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* NarmCharm: The "Give us! Us free!" scene may look silly in context (Cinqué is shouting to the court room to free his people, while they look astonished and confused), but it is definitely a powerful and emotional moment, YouTakeNoCandle YouNoTakeCandle be damned.
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* NarmCharm: The "Give us! Us free!" scene may look silly in context (Cinqué is shouting to the court room to free his people, while they look astonished and confused), but it is definitely a powerful and emotional moment, YouTakeNoCandle be damned.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCXrbvPxF4 Dry Your Tears, Afrika]]. It ''is'' a JohnWilliams score, so that's to be expected.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCXrbvPxF4 Dry Your Tears, Afrika]]. It ''is'' a JohnWilliams Music/JohnWilliams score, so that's to be expected.
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* AwardSnub: It was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, it didn't win a single one.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCXrbvPxF4 Dry Your Tears, Afrika]]. It ''is'' a JohnWilliams score, so that's to be expected.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCXrbvPxF4 Dry Your Tears, Afrika]]. It ''is'' a JohnWilliams score, so that's to be expected.
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* OneSceneWonder: Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun.
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* [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]: The first slave crew, and the slavers in general.
