1997 · 138 min · Crime, Mystery, Drama
L.A. Confidential is Curtis Hanson's neo-noir masterpiece set in 1950s Los Angeles, weaving together three very different cops — an idealist, a corrupt opportunist, and a celebrity-obsessed officer — in a web of corruption, murder, and Hollywood scandal. Starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Kevin Spacey, the film received 9 Oscar nominations and won 2.
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L.A. Confidential won two Academy Awards — Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger) and Best Adapted Screenplay — from 9 nominations. It lost Best Picture to Titanic in one of the most contested Oscar races in history.
Yes — it's adapted from James Ellroy's 1990 novel, the third in his L.A. Quartet. Ellroy's Los Angeles crime novels are widely considered the finest American crime fiction of the late 20th century.
Russell Crowe plays Bud White, Guy Pearce plays Ed Exley, and Kevin Spacey plays Jack Vincennes. Kim Basinger won the Oscar for her role as Lynn Bracken.
L.A. Confidential is a neo-noir — a modern film that evokes and updates the classic Hollywood noir style of the 1940s-50s. It is one of the finest examples of the genre.