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American Beauty

November 2020

  • (L-R) Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in UNCLE FRANK Photo: Brownie Harris Courtesy of Amazon Studios

    Uncle Frank review – fervent family drama from writer of American Beauty

    Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in Alan Ball’s film about a bookish teenager, her academic uncle and his not entirely inner demons

September 2019

  • Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in American Beauty

    American Beauty at 20: is the Oscar-winning hit worth a closer look?

    In the years since its release, critics have turned against 1999’s Oscar-winning suburban satire but it remains a telling snapshot of the time

April 2016

  • Chris Cooper

    Five best moments
    Chris Cooper: five best moments

    The Oscar-winning actor stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in this week’s oddball comedy-drama Demolition, but what have been his smartest career choices?

November 2015

  • memento

    Remaking Memento, the Mummy and more: a Hollywood insider reveals all

    Thomas Batten shares executives’ latest pitches for revamping beloved classics from the 90s and early 2000s, involving the Kardashians, Instagram and millennials

November 2014

  • Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham, in Sam Mendes's film American Beauty

    Film blog
    Kevin Spacey: five best moments

    Join us as we pick five of Spacey’s top film roles, and let us know which you would add

April 2001

  • American beauty

    In the furore about Mena Suvari and the roses, it was easy to miss the understated yet incandescent screen presence of Thora Birch as Kevin Spacey's daughter. Now audiences are realising what insiders have known since she was six - that Thora Birch is Hollywood's brightest young star (just ask her mum).

July 2000

  • Videos

    American Beauty | The Last Contract | Chance or Coincidence | The League of Gentlemen

May 2000

  • American Beauty in video row

    American Beauty in video row

April 2000

  • American Beauty's screen kiss is too hot for MTV

    Dreamworks, the studio behind Oscar-winning American Beauty has refused to let MTV use a clip of Kevin Spacey and Mena Suvari in a clinch for the network's ninth annual Movie Awards, despite the smooch snagging a viewers' nomination for best onscreen kiss.

March 2000

  • The seduction of Oscar

  • American Beauty dominates, but British talent gets more than a nod

  • The best supportive parents scene

  • The best schoolyard scene

  • Mendes debut earns 14 Bafta nominations

  • American Beauty dominates Bafta nominations

February 2000

  • Introducing Thora and friends...

    American Beauty has won critical praise and countless Oscar nominations. But little attention has been paid to the cast's youthful core. Righting that wrong, Vanessa Thorpe salutes Thora Birch, Mena Suvari and Wes Bentley, while Akin Ojumu imagines what Thora might do next

  • The best real estate scene

    Suburbia. The ever-spruce Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) stands before the curtains of her latest property, a slightly down-at-heel condo. Her eyes brighten; she straightens her back.

    • Warehouse man makes Oscar history

    • Warehouse man makes Oscar history

    • 'It's not a typical Academy Award-winning movie'

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