Pearl Harbor (film)

Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. Starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin, the film features a heavily fictionalized version of the attack on Pearl Harbor, focusing on a love triangle set amidst the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid.

The film was produced by Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on May 25, 2001, and was a box office success, grossing $59 million in its opening weekend and $449.2 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2001, but received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the performances, dialogue, runtime and historical inaccuracies, but was praised for the visual effects, action sequences and musical score. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Sound Editing, but was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.