Babel(Movie, 2006)

Name: Babel
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006
Duration: T02:23:00
Rating: 3.6

| 2h 23min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 1,657 votes)

Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The multi-narrative drama features an ensemble cast and portrays interwoven stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. An international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France, the film completes Arriaga and Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros (2000) and 21 Grams (2003). Babel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where González Iñárritu won the Best Director Award. The film was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006, and went into wide release on 10 November 2006. Babel received positive reviews and was a financial success, grossing $135 million worldwide. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actress ( ()

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Awards & Nominations for Babel

Academy Award for Best Original Score National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture 2x nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Score

About Babel

In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, and displacement, each character discovers that it is family that ultimately provides solace. In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couples frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief.

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Trailer for Babel + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Babel - Trailer(Trailer, 2:28)

Babel - Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Babel ≣ 2006 ≣ Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: France, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Mexico, San Diego (California), Japan, Morocco, Drumheller, San Ysidro

Plays in: Mexico, Tokyo, California, Japan, Morocco

Made by: Paramount Pictures, Media Rights Capital, Anonymous Content, Paramount Vantage, Central Films, Babel Productions Inc.

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Japanese (JA), Russian (RU)

Translated into 34 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/27/2006 (World premiere: 09/08/2006)

Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Kōji Yakusho, Elle Fanning, Nathan Gamble, Michael Peña, Clifton Collins, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Driss Roukhe, Michael Maloney, Harriet Walter, Satoshi Nikaidō, Dermot Crowley, Trevor Martin, Matyelok Gibbs, André Oumansky, Robert Fyfe, Emilio Echevarría, Shigemitsu Ogi, Aaron D. Spears, R. D. Call, Kaori Shimizu, Ayaka Komatsu, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Alex Jennings, Kana Harada, Mónica del Carmen

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Producer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin

Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu

Film Editor: Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

Director of Photography: Rodrigo Prieto

Composer: Gustavo Santaolalla

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Вавилон"

"巴别塔"

"바벨"

"火線交錯"

Keywords: ecstasy, illegal immigration, incident, tokyo, japan, first time, bullet wound, non linear, loss of loved one, deaf-mute, nanny, drug use, morocco, tijuana, daughter, san diego, california, multiple storylines, gun

Budget: 25,000,000 USD

Revenue: 135,330,182 USD (= 541%)

3 movies in the Collection

2000 Amores Perros ("Amores perros")

2003 21 Grams

2006 Babel

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