| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | |
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| 10 Nominations / 2 Wins | |
| Year | 2003 |
| Director | Peter Weir |
| Writer | Peter Weir, John Collee |
| Starring | Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd |
| 76th Academy Awards | |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic British historical drama film co-written and directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which has a total of 20 novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career.
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Nominations
- Best Art Direction — William Sandell, Robert Gould
- Best Cinematography — Russell Boyd
- Best Costume Design — Wendy Stites
- Best Director — Peter Weir
- Best Film Editing — Lee Smith
- Best Makeup — Edouard F. Henriques, Yolanda Toussieng
- Best Picture — Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson
- Best Sound Editing — Richard King
- Best Sound Mixing — Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill, Arthur Rochester
- Best Visual Effects — Dan Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, Robert Stromberg
Plot[]
The year is 1805. Europe has fallen to Napoleon, and only the Royal Navy stands in his way to total victory. Off the cost of South America, a new conflict is brewing. Captain Jack "Lucky Jack" Aubrey of the Man-of-War HMS Surprise is under orders to sink or capture the French privateer Acheron, which has been deployed to the region. After seven weeks of uneventful sailing, the Acheron strikes first, all but crippling the Surprise in an engagement in which Aubrey realizes his enemy's ship is nautically superior to his own. Along with his close friend and confidant Stephan Maturin who also happens to be the ship's surgeon, Aubrey is now faced with the choice of retreating to England and admitting defeat or remaining at the Acheron's mercy. Aubrey must now do the impossible if he is to survive, repair his ship, catch up to his enemy and defeat the Acheron--somehow.
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