American Beauty

A dissatisfied middle-aged executive becomes infatuated with his daughters friend, while his wife has an affair, leading to a tragic climax in a seemingly perfect suburban setting. American Beauty is a 1999 American English-language Drama Romance film featuring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Mena Suvari and James Hunter. Jinks/Cohen Company was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks. American Beauty is written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes. DreamWorks Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. American Beauty was released on 2nd March 2000 and takes a screen time of 122 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. American Beauty was made on a budget of $15 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $356 million. Cinematography was done by Conrad L. Hall and editing by Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury. The music was composed by Thomas Newman. At the 2000 Oscar Awards It won 5 awards including: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Kevin Spacey), Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Cinematography.