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Satellite Award–winning films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring11 minThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring opened on the 19th of December 2001, and within its first five days in the United States and Canada it had earned more than seventy-five million dollars. That number alone might suggest a…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King13 minThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King crossed the one-billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office in February 2004, only the second film in history to reach that threshold. At the 76th Academy Awards, it swept every single one…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers14 minThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers premiered on the 5th of December 2002 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, and what audiences saw that night was something cinema had not quite done before. A digital creature called Gollum spoke…
  • Spirited Away11 minSpirited Away opens on a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro Ogino riding in her parents' imported Audi, sulking about moving to a new neighborhood. Her father takes a wrong turn down an unexpected road, parks in front of a tunnel, and insists…
  • Titanic (1997 film)13 minTitanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. On the 1st of September 1995, Cameron and his crew descended to the actual wreck of the RMS Titanic,…
  • The Wind Rises7 minThe Wind Rises opens not with a battle or a disaster, but with a boy's dream. In 1918, Jiro Horikoshi longs to fly. His eyes are too weak to let him be a pilot. So he does something else: he learns to build the planes instead. What follows…
  • The Boy and the Heron18 minThe Boy and the Heron, a 2023 fantasy film from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, reached Japanese theaters behind a single poster and nothing else. No trailer. No cast list. No plot summary. A decade earlier, Miyazaki had stood at a press…
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once10 minEverything Everywhere All at Once was originally written for a man. The script's first version had a male lead, conceived specifically with Jackie Chan in mind. Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert reconceived the protagonist as a…
  • Barbie (film)18 minBarbie, Greta Gerwig's 2023 satirical fantasy comedy, drained the entire remaining global supply of a specific shade of pink paint during production. Its supplier, Rosco Laboratories, had been weakened by COVID-19 supply-chain problems and…
  • Lincoln (film)11 minLincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 biographical drama, opens not with a battle or a speech but with a political puzzle: how does a president end slavery when the courts might undo his most important act? Daniel Day-Lewis plays Abraham…
  • Alita: Battle Angel20 minAlita: Battle Angel existed as nothing more than a registered domain name years before it became a movie. Around June 2000, 20th Century Fox registered battleangelalita.com to producer James Cameron, long before a single scene had been…

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