Editing The Insider (film) (section)

==Release==

===Box office===
''The Insider'' was released in 1,809 theaters on November 5, 1999, where it grossed a total of $6,712,361 on its opening weekend and ranked fourth in the country for that time period. It went on to earn $29.1 million in North America, and $31.2 million in the rest of the world, for a total of $60.3 million worldwide, significantly lower than its $90 million budget.<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite news |title=''The Insider'' |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=insider.htm|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> The film was considered to be a commercial disappointment. [[The Walt Disney Studios (division)|Disney]] executives had hoped that Mann's film would have the same commercial and critical success as ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'', a film in the same vein.

However, ''The Insider'' had limited appeal to younger moviegoers—studio executives reportedly said that the prime audience was over age 40—and the subject matter was "not notably dramatic", according to marketing executives. Then-Disney chairman [[Joe Roth]] said, "It's like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back. The fact of the matter is we're really proud we did this movie. People say it's the best movie they've seen this year. They say, 'Why don't we make more movies like this?{{'"}}<ref name="weinraub">{{cite news|last = Weinraub|first=Bernard|title=At the Movies|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 3, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/03/movies/at-the-movies.html |access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>

After the film received seven [[Academy Awards|Academy-Award]] nominations but won none, Joe Roth said, "Everyone is really proud of the movie. But it's one of those rare times when adults loved a movie, yet they couldn't convince their friends to go see it, any more than we could convince people in marketing the film."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/16/entertainment/ca-64714/2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531212612/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/16/entertainment/ca-64714/2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 31, 2016 | title=The Wind Shifts and So Does the Hunt | author=Patrick Goldstein | date=February 16, 2000 | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
''The Insider'' received some of the best reviews of 1999 and of Michael Mann's career. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], it has a 96% rating, based on 138 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Intelligent, compelling, and packed with strong performances, ''The Insider'' is a potent corporate thriller."<ref name="tomatoes">{{cite web |title=The Insider (1999) |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insider/ |access-date=November 29, 2024 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it has a score of 84 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref name="meta">{{cite web |title=The Insider Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |url= http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-insider |access-date=March 5, 2018 }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade of "A–" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title=INSIDER, THE (1999) A- |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, and praised "its power to absorb, entertain, and anger".<ref name="ebert">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=''The Insider'' |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=November 5, 1999 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991105/REVIEWS/911050302/1023 |access-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-date=April 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409020411/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19991105%2FREVIEWS%2F911050302%2F1023 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine's [[David Ansen]] wrote, "Mann could probably make a movie about needlepoint riveting. Employing a big canvas, a huge cast of superb character actors and his always exquisite eye for composition, he's made the kind of current-events epic that Hollywood has largely abandoned to TV—and shows us how movies can do it better."<ref name="ansen">{{cite news |last=Ansen |first=David |title=Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |work=Newsweek |date=November 8, 1999 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/90142 |access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>

In her review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Janet Maslin]] praised Russell Crowe as "a subtle powerhouse in his wrenching evocation of Wigand, takes on the thick, stolid look of the man he portrays", and felt that it was "by far Mann's most fully realized and enthralling work".<ref name="maslin">{{cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|title=Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 5, 1999|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/movies/film-review-mournful-echoes-of-a-whistle-blower.html?scp=14&sq=%22Michael+Mann%22&st=nyt|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>

''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Richard Corliss]] wrote, "When Crowe gets to command the screen, ''The Insider'' comes to roiled life. It's an ''All the President's Men'' in which [[Deep Throat (Watergate)|Deep Throat]] takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth."<ref name="corliss">{{cite magazine |last = Corliss |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Corliss |title=Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=November 1, 1999|url= https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,992439,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080308111144/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992439,00.html |url-status= live |archive-date= March 8, 2008|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Peter Travers]] wrote, "With its dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, ''The Insider'' offers Mann at his best—blood up, unsanitized, and unbowed."<ref name="travers">{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter | title=''The Insider''|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 8, 2000|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-insider-19991105|access-date=March 10, 2011}}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a "B" rating, and felt that it was "a good but far from great movie because it presents truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is".<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |title=''The Insider'' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=November 12, 1999 |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271589,00.html |access-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425220434/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271589,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Director [[Quentin Tarantino]] included ''The Insider'' in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director).<ref>{{cite web | title = Team America, Anything Else Among the Best Movies of the Past Seventeen Years, Claims Quentin Tarantino| last=Brown|first=Lane | work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] | date=August 17, 2009| publisher=New York Media LLC | url =http://www.vulture.com/2009/08/speed_and_team_america_among_q.html | access-date=September 13, 2016}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"| Awards
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Award
! Date of ceremony
! Category
! Recipients
! Result
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars2000">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/72nd-winners.html|title=The 72nd Academy Awards (2000) Nominees and Winners|access-date=November 19, 2011|work=Oscars}}</ref>
| rowspan="7"| [[72nd Academy Awards|March 26, 2000]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Michael Mann]] and [[Pieter Jan Brugge]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Mann
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Russell Crowe]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]]
| Michael Mann and [[Eric Roth]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Dante Spinotti]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[William Goldenberg]], [[Paul Rubell]] and [[David Rosenbloom]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Andy Nelson (sound engineer)|Andy Nelson]], [[Doug Hemphill]] and [[Lee Orloff]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[53rd British Academy Film Awards|April 9, 2000]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1999|December 12, 1999]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Christopher Plummer]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards]]
| [[5th Critics' Choice Awards|January 24, 2000]]
| [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[57th Golden Globe Awards|January 23, 2000]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Mann
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Michael Mann and Eric Roth
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| [[Pieter Bourke]] and [[Lisa Gerrard]]
| {{nom}} 
|-
| [[London Film Critics' Circle]] 
| [[London Film Critics Circle Awards 1999|March 2, 2000]]
| [[London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year|Best Actor]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]
| rowspan="5"| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1999|December 1999]]
| colspan="2"| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Mann
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Christopher Plummer
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Dante Spinotti
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Society of Film Critics]]
| rowspan="2"| [[1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards|January 8, 2000]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Christopher Plummer
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]]
| [[6th Screen Actors Guild Awards|March 12, 2000]]
| [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role|Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[Satellite Awards]]
| rowspan="6"| [[4th Golden Satellite Awards|January 16, 2000]] 
| colspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best Film|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Michael Mann
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Russell Crowe
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Al Pacino]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Christopher Plummer
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
| {{nom}}
|}

In 2006, ''Premiere'' ranked Crowe's performance #23 of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.premiere.com/List/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time-24-1 |title=Premiere's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time: 24-1 |access-date=August 13, 2009 |archive-date=January 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131150843/http://www.premiere.com/List/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time-24-1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Eric Roth and Michael Mann won the [[Humanitas Prize]] in the Feature Film category in 2000.