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    American Gangster

    R2007 · Biography · 2h 37m

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  1. Awards

    • Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role 2008 · Winner

    • Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 2008 · Nominated

    • Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2008 · Nominated

    • British Academy of Film & Television Arts Music 2008 · Nominated

    • British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 2008 · Nominated

    • British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Screenplay 2008 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Art Direction 2008 · Nominated

    • British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 2008 · Nominated

    • British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 2008 · Nominated

    • Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2008 · Nominated

    • Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 2008 · Nominated

    • Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 2008 · Nominated

  1. American Gangster was nominated for twenty-one awards, including two Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress for Ruby Dee, who also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

  2. American Gangster. Jump to. 12 wins & 38 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2008 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Ruby Dee. 2008 Nominee Oscar. Best Achievement in Art Direction. Arthur Max (art director) Beth A. Rubino (set decorator) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. 2008 Winner ASCAP Award.

  3. Nov 2, 2007 · American Gangster: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

  4. Oct 21, 2007 · Popular on Variety. Based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson, the story arc is so sensational it warrants outsized treatment. Frank Lucas rose from Harlem crime-world minion to drug...

  5. "American Gangster" tells his success story. Inheriting a crime empire from his famous boss Bumpy Johnson, he cornered the New York drug trade with admirable capitalist strategies. He personally flew to Southeast Asia to buy his product directly from the suppliers, used an ingenious importing scheme to get it into the United States, and sold it ...

  6. Nov 16, 2007 · There’s clearly Oscar-vet talent all over the picture, including winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in the leads, triple directing nominee Ridley Scott and double editing winner Pietro...

  7. 77,917. Thriller. Drama Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver for one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream.

  8. Sep 14, 2018 · In the Golden Globes, American Gangster received a nomination for Best Motion Picture, Drama category as well as a nomination for Denzel Washington as Best Performance by an Actor and Director Ridley Scott for Best Director.

  9. Dec 15, 2007 · Parallel lives are explored through the pursuit of family-oriented but deadly Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) by flawed but incorruptible New Jersey cop Richie Roberts (Russell...

  10. Nov 2, 2007 · Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam.

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