Traffic

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Awards

Academy Awards 2001 - Nominated - Best Picture

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Director

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Editing

Academy Awards 2001 - Nominated - Best Picture

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Director

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Editing

Academy Awards 2001 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

BAFTA Awards 2001 - Won - Best Adapted Screenplay

BAFTA Awards 2001 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

Berlin International Film Festival 2001 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Berlin International Film Festival 2001 - Won - Best Actor

DGA Awards 2001 - Nominated - Outstanding Direction of a Motion Picture

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2001 - Won - Best Motion Picture

Golden Globe Awards 2001 - Nominated - Best Director

Golden Globe Awards 2001 - Nominated - Best Motion Picture Drama

Golden Globe Awards 2001 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Golden Globe Awards 2001 - Won - Best Screenplay

Golden Globe Awards 2001 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

LA Film Critics Association Awards 2000 - Won - Best Director

National Board of Review Awards 2000 - Won - Best Director

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2001 - Won - Best Director

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2001 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2000 - Won - Best Director

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2000 - Won - Best Film

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2000 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

Satellite Awards 2001 - Won - Best Director

Satellite Awards 2001 - Won - Best Motion Picture Drama

Satellite Awards 2001 - Won - Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001 - Won - Best Actor

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001 - Won - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

WGA Awards 2001 - Won - Best Adapted Screenplay

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Traffic

Director:
Steven Soderbergh
147 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Traffic examines the effect of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. Acting as his own director of photography, Steven Soderbergh employs an innovative, color - coded cinematic treatment to distinguish the interwoven stories of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin's wife, a key informant, and cops on both sides of the US/Mexican border. Rarely has a film so energetic and suspenseful presented a more complex and nuanced view of an issue of such international importance. Instantly recognized as a classic, Traffic appeared on more than 200 critics' ten-best lists, and earned 5 Academy Award nominations.

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Details

Runtime:
147 min.

Genre:
Drama

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

DISC ONE - THE MOVIE

  • Digital transfer, enhanced for 16x9 televisions
  • Three commentary tracks: director Steven Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; composer Cliff Martinez (with two music cues not included in the film)
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

 

DISC TWO - THE SUPPLEMENTS

  • 25 deleted scenes featuring commentary from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan
  • Film processing demonstration: Achieving the look of the Mexico sequences
  • Editing demonstration with commentary from editor Stephen Mirrione
  • Dialogue editing demonstration
  • Additional footage featuring multiple angles from the scenes of the El Paso Intelligence Center, and the cocktail party where U.S. Senators, major politicians, lobbyists, and others state their views on the drug war
  • Theatrical and television trailers
  • U.S. Customs trading cards of the K-9 squad used in the detection of narcotics and illegal substances

 

 

 

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