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The Matrix
1999 2h 18m Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

The Matrix

★ 8.7 IMDb
Action & Adventure Science-Fiction
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Writer the Wachowskis
Cast Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
DP Bill Pope
Music Don Davis
Essays and Criticism
On this film
Bullet-time in Simulation City: revisiting Baudrillard and The matrix by way of the "real 1999" by Randy Laist, Alphaville
In conversation with other films
From the warehouse to the multiplex: techno and rave culture’s reconfiguration of late 1990s sci-fi spectacle as musical performance by Diana Sandars, Screening the Past
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Awards & Festivals
Nominated Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Nominated Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Nominated Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Won BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Won BAFTA Award for Best Sound
Nominated Academy Award for Best Sound
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Cloud Atlas
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The Matrix Resurrections
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2021
Jupiter Ascending
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