This motion picture event from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese earned 10 Academy Award(R) nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, along with 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Song! Leonardo DiCaprio (TITANIC), Cameron Diaz (CHARLIE’S ANGELS), and Daniel Day-Lewis (THE BOXER) star in this epic tale of vengeance and survival! As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan’s Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But Amsterdam’s personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with the passage of time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production this grand (and this troubled behind the scenes), but it’s as distinguished as any of director Martin Scorsese’s more celebrated New York stories. From its astonishing 1846 prologue to the city’s infernal draft riots of 1863, the film aspires to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The hostility is embodied in a tale of primal vengeance between Irish American son Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his father’s ruthless killer and “Nativist” gang leader Bill “the Butcher” Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis, brutally inspired), so named for his lethal talent with knives. Vallon’s vengeance is only marginally compelling; DiCaprio is arguably miscast, and Cameron Diaz (as Vallon’s pickpocket lover) is adrift in a film with little use for women. Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese’s mastery blossoms in his expert melding of personal and political trajectories; this is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic, and utterly spectacular. –Jeff Shannon
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April 16, 2008
#1
leo deserves more than oscar!His acting proves it!
Hopefully someday the Academic jury will understand it that how leo is talented!he is a great actor!that`s it…End of discussion!
About Gangs of new york,I must say that it is a huge film!I`m sure*
with best wishes for the most talented actor of our generation,leo!
April 16, 2008
#2
hey ,listen!I think leonardo dicaprio is unique & I admire him for his talent,acting,personality,his devotion love to his parent & his caring about environment & many many good thing s about him & not you & no one can change my idea! & I think 2002 will be the great leo`s year after Gangs of new york & Catch me if you can!
LEO RULZZZZZZZZZZZ FOREVER!
LEO`S FAN FROM Italy
April 16, 2008
#3
To William Marshal:very well said,thanks!
Hopefully leo will won the best actor ACADEMY AWARD & his great performances will prove to everyone!
go leo!
April 16, 2008
#4
This will be the greatest movie ever made except for TITANIC (which lets face it was an excellent movie).It will be the biggest gangster movie of all time which unquestionably will beat road to perdition in the oscar race.SAm Mendes’s first movie was American Beauty (not at all deserved best picture.Should’ve went to Green Mile.Gangs of New York will star Leonardo DiCaprio(Amsterdam Vallon).(dont make fun of him he’s an excellent actor(make fun of Josh Hartnett(no talent there.Anyway it will be set in the 1860′s during the civil war in a battle in the street Daniel-Day Lewis (Bill the Butcher) murders DicaprioS father(Liam Neeson) and seeks revenge with the help of CAmeron Diazes character.The film will open on CHRISTMAS DAY and will be a major hit and will hope fully become the 2002 BEST PICTURE. As for BEST ACTOR I hear they dont know if they want to give it to Dicaprio or DAy Lewis(HOPEFULLY DiCaprio) cause DAY Lewis already won it for a film called MY LEFT FOOT in the early 80s.Martin Scorsese will most likely win BEST DIRECTOR.I Gurantee that this will be an excellent film.GO Leo.
April 16, 2008
#5
After having seen the phenomenal GoodFellas, I would have thought that Gangs was going to be a great Scorcece film. I WAS WRONG! The movie was boring from beginning to end. I fell asleep many times and so I just started to freak on my girlfriend.JK. Leo DiCaprio is a horrible actor. He should not make anymore movies in his career. Daniel Day-Lewis appears to look like a toothpick on-screen and his performance in this film was worse than DiCaprio’s. The only highlight of this film was Cameron Diaz. She is an extremely sexy actress and brought some much needed life to this film.