Spider (film)

Spider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It is based on the novel Spider by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the screenplay.

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2001 - Canadian - David Cronenberg - Novel - Spider - Patrick McGrath

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The film premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and enjoyed significant awards-buzz before being dumped into a few theaters at the years' end by its distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. Nonetheless, the film enjoyed much acclaim by critics and especially by Cronenberg enthusiasts; indeed, the film garnered only one award - but an important one - at the Canadian Genie Awards: Best Director.

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Cannes Film Festival - Sony Pictures Classics - Genie Awards

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The stars of the film, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson were laden with a multitude of foreign honours (particularly Richardson), but both missed out on the chance of receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively, after a poor marketing campaign from Sony Pictures.

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Ralph Fiennes - Miranda Richardson - Academy Award

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