Hollow Man was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2001, but lost to a film directed by who?
Hollow Man Hollow Man is a 2000 American-German science fiction horror film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin. Bacon portrays the title character, a scientist who renders himself invisible, only to go on a killing spree after going violently insane, a story inspired by H. G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man". The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2001, but lost to "Gladiator".
U-571 (film) U-571 is a 2000 French-American war film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine.