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This reputation has continued through the 1990s and into the 21st century with films such as the James Bond series, Gladiator ( 2000 ) and the Harry Potter franchise.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

Scott's film Gladiator ( 2000 ) proved to be one of his biggest commercial successes to date.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

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* In Ridley Scott's 2000 film Gladiator, the Colosseum was re-created via computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) to " restore " it to the glory of its heyday in the 2nd century.

* Gladiator 2000 ( 1986 ), a gigantic painting ( 45 × 6 meters ) by Nicolae Covaci.

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Cartman is also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, telling his version of the film's titular joke to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, and in " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth that aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

* Ostia is mentioned in the 2000 film Gladiator, when the protagonist Maximus learns that his army is camped at Ostia and awaiting orders.

He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator ( 2000 ), Saint John in Apocalypse Revelation ( 2002 ), gunfighter and Dom Frollo in the 1997 TV movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

First, as the gunfighter " English Bob " in the 1992 Western, Unforgiven ; second, as the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ).

He has composed music for over 100 films, including award winning film scores for The Lion King ( 1994 ), Crimson Tide ( 1995 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), The Last Samurai ( 2003 ), The Dark Knight ( 2008 ) and Inception ( 2010 ).

In the 2000s, Zimmer has composed scores for Hollywood blockbuster films including Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down and Hannibal ( 2001 ), The Last Samurai ( 2003 ), Madagascar ( 2005 ), The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 ) The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ), Angels & Demons ( 2009 ) and Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ).

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Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, such as Henry V ( 1989 ), Dead Again ( 1991 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), Gosford Park ( 2001 ), The Golden Compass ( 2007 ), The King's Speech ( 2010 ), My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ), and the forthcoming Hippie Hippie Shake.

Film appearances included performances in Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again ( 1991 ), Branagh's full-text rendition of Hamlet ( 1996 ) as King Claudius, John Maybury's Love is the Devil ( 1998 ), a portrait of painter Francis Bacon, as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator ( 2000 ) with Russell Crowe, and as " The Duke " opposite Christopher Eccleston and Eddie Izzard in a post-apocalyptic version of Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy ( 2002 ).

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

Kyle also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, listening to Cartman tell his version of the film's titular joke, and in the " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth which aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

* Maximus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 film )

His final role was the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Gladiator ( 2000 ), in which he played alongside Richard Harris, an actor whom Reed admired greatly both on and off the screen.

There is also a reference to Claudius ' suppression of one of the coups against him in the movie Gladiator, though the incident is entirely fictional.

* Is mentioned in the movie Gladiator by Commodus who says, " Your fame is well deserved Spaniard.

* In Gladiator, Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven, a son gets to know his father when he is grown up.

" The last cartoon featuring Daffy and Speedy is " See Ya Later Gladiator ," in what animation fans call the worst cartoon made by Warner Bros.

* " Sixty-Ton Statue is Carved from a Single Slab of Stone " Popular Mechanics, August 1935 statue Gladiator commissioned for the main national archive building in Washington DC in 1935

" Gladiator sacrifice " is the name given to the form of sacrifice in which an especially courageous war captive was given mock weapons, tied to a large circular stone and forced to fight against a fully armed Aztec warrior.

The mascot for Fowlerville Schools is the Gladiator, with the school colors being Purple and Gold.

The term CSRG is made up of the initials of Chauchat, Sutter, Ribeyrolles and Gladiator, four terms which are self-explanatory.

Brother Pat is a director of The Mill which won an Oscar for Gladiator.

Russell Crowe in Gladiator: " My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius.

In addition, Marvel Comics ' Gladiator of the Shi ' ar Imperial Guard is based partly on Superboy.

The group has also accepted non-mutant members, such as Broo ( a young Brood hatchling who is a pacifist ) and Kid Gladiator, the son of X-Men enemy Gladiator.

Matt Morgan, who wrestled for a time in the WWE and is currently in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( wrestling in both under his given name ), debuted during season 2 of the 2008 revival as a Gladiator under the name Beast.

After the presumed death of Vulcan and Black Bolt, Gladiator assumes the throne and ends up surrendering to the Inhumans and the Kree when the damage to the Shi ' ar military is too much.

The result is that the Borghese Gladiator, renowned since the 1620s as the most admired single sculpture in Villa Borghese, must now be appreciated in the Musée du Louvre.

The Season Two Gladiator Arena set for Rogues also has a very similar helm to Skeletor's original outfit with a Skull emanating from a Hood while his enemy is also spoofed as the Alliance Battle Master, with his pet, Battle Cat.

* The Germanic war chant in the battle scene at the beginning of Ridley Scott's film Gladiator is the Zulu war chant from Zulu.

As the genre matured, budgets sometimes increased, as evidenced in 1962's I sette gladiatori ( Gladiator Seven in 1964 US release ), a wide-screen epic with impressive sets and matte-painting work.

The designers of the Oscar-winning Roman epic Gladiator used the paintings of Alma-Tadema as a central source of inspiration.

Not until Gladiator did the Roman epic return to the cinema.

In later years, he had roles including appearing as Cassius in the historical epic film Gladiator ( 2000 ), with Russell Crowe, as well as appearing in the drama film Last Orders ( 2001 ) and the spy film Spy Game ( 2001 ).

He received his second Oscar for the epic movie Gladiator about a struggle for power in Imperial Rome, in 2001.

In 2000, Nielsen became known to worldwide audiences as Lucilla in Ridley Scott's internationally acclaimed Academy Award – winning epic Gladiator, starring opposite Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.

He later worked as a writer on the Academy Award winning epic Gladiator ( 2000 ), and wrote and directed the 1997 film Firelight.