Steven Soderbergh ‪winning the Oscar® for Directing

Tom Cruise presenting Steven Soderbergh the Oscar® for Directing "Traffic" at the 73rd Academy Awards® in 2001.

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• Oscars
• 73rd
• Academy
• Awards
• steven
• soderbergh
• directing
• Traffic
• tom
• cruise

[misterjabs2008]

What a speech that was! Very positive and unselfish. He knows how to appreciate every ART.

[charms71]

The Oscars often upsets me. I can't believe they didn't even consider "CHE"

[drxwnedxwxrld]

@magicolivier haha I know. Just adding on to the humor

[magicolivier]

@drxwnedxwxrld

Yeah, it's called sarcarsm, dude...

[EmpireLS56KW]

@blaaairVideos I have seen Traffic I liked the ending end credits on it with that mellow music playing over the guy watching a game.

Still Gladiator was the monster film of the year. Well at least the awards where shared around.

[EmpireLS56KW]

0:01 What the fuck, what is this no tie season at the Oscars! Tom Cruse you look scruffy without a tie shame on you.

[drxwnedxwxrld]

@magicolivier Lol robbed for losing in your own category that you won in (?)

[magicolivier]

I think that Steven Soderbergh was robbed for not winning an Oscar for "Erin Brockovich" !!!

[demsvuise12]

I love how Tom always talks about the magic of movies(:

[beyondbelieffan]

BEST DIRECTOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[GunslingerXYZ]

Oh, and just because no one has said it: STEPHEN DALDRY WAS ROBBED. ;-)

[GunslingerXYZ]

As much as I love Gladiator and Ridley Scott in general, I'm glad Soderbergh won this for Traffic. It's a relatively rare case where the Academy not only gave it to the right person, but also, in my opinion, for the right film. So often the Traffics of people's careers go by unrewarded, and then years later the Academy plays catch up and awards a director for a solid, lesser film (Scorsese/The Departed). But Traffic represents Soderbergh at the peak of his powers.