Gladiator
2000
Academy Award for Best Picture — 73rd Academy Awards
- Director:
- Ridley Scott
- Studio:
- DreamWorks Pictures, Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Red Wagon Entertainment
- Starring:
- Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi
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In 180 AD, the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius intends to return home after he leads the Roman army to victory against Germanic tribes near Vindobona. Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rule and that he wishes Maximus to succeed him, as regent, to restore the Roman Republic. Angered by this decision, Commodus secretly assassinates his father.