Academy Awards, USA 2004
| Won Oscar | Best Cinematography Russell Boyd |
| Best Sound Editing Richard King | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Peter Weir Duncan Henderson |
| Best Director Peter Weir | |
| Best Film Editing Lee Smith | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration William Sandell (art director) Robert Gould (set decorator) | |
| Best Costume Design Wendy Stites | |
| Best Makeup Edouard F. Henriques Yolanda Toussieng | |
| Best Sound Mixing Paul Massey Doug Hemphill Art Rochester | |
| Best Visual Effects Daniel Sudick Stefen Fangmeier Nathan McGuinness Robert Stromberg |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Peter Weir
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, 20th Century Fox)
A British sea captain pursues a faster, better equipped French ship around South America for a confrontation near the Galapagos Islands. His crew includes a scientist more interested in cataloging insects than defeating the French and several boys barely old enough to shave much less be serving in the military. The attention to period detail is stunning: an absolutely convincing portrait of life on a fighting vessel in the early 1800s, somewhat compensating for the lack of plot and character development.
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