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52-401: Vanilla Sky grossed over $ 203 million against a production budget of $ 68 million and received mixed reception from critics. Diaz's performance was widely praised, earning her a Screen Actors Guild and a Golden Globe Award nomination. The song " Vanilla Sky " by Paul McCartney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song . The film later gained a cult following . David Aames,

104-567: A Pet Sounds mix session." Besides the publicly available soundtrack album, Music from Vanilla Sky , the original score was released as a " for your consideration " release for Academy Awards nomination and never released publicly for sale. The eponymous song from the soundtrack, written and recorded by Paul McCartney , was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song . Additional songs featured included Radiohead 's song " Everything in Its Right Place ", and " Svefn-g-englar " by

156-632: A Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (in addition to her roles in Blow and Captain Corelli's Mandolin ). Vanilla Sky was released on DVD and VHS on May 21, 2002, Blu-ray in 2015, and Ultra HD Blu-ray in 2023. Screen Actors Guild Award Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as SAG Awards ) are accolades given by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). The award

208-404: A prosthetic mask. Flashbacks reveal the following events: good-looking César is attractive to women. At his birthday party, he flirts with Sofía ( Penélope Cruz ), his best friend Pelayo's ( Fele Martínez ) date. Later, he takes her home and stays the night, but they do not sleep together. The next morning, César's obsessive ex-lover Nuria ( Najwa Nimri ) pulls up outside Sofía's flat, offering him

260-560: A Dream . An American remake entitled Vanilla Sky , directed by Cameron Crowe , was released in 2001, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role. A handsome young man wakes up to a female voice telling him to open his eyes. He drives to an empty city. He wakes again, this time to a woman in his bed. He tells her not to leave him messages on his alarm clock. From a prison cell in Madrid, the 25-year-old man, César ( Eduardo Noriega ), tells his story to psychiatrist Antonio (Chete Lera) while wearing

312-623: A crowded room." Principal photography for Vanilla Sky began in late 2000 and lasted six weeks. On November 12, 2000, shooting for the scene of the deserted Times Square in New York took place in the early hours of the day. A large section of traffic was blocked off around Times Square while the scene was shot. "There was a limit on how long the city would let us lock everything up even on an early Sunday morning when much of NYC would be slow getting up," said Steadicam operator Larry McConkey. "Several times we rehearsed with Steadicam and Crane including

364-402: A cure can be found, keeping them in a lucid dream state to otherwise exercise their mind. David realizes that he is in cryonic suspension and that the world he inhabits is his lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for " tech support ", and rushes for the building's lobby, which is suddenly empty. An elevator opens, revealing the strange man from

416-582: A device that tells "us for sure what actually happened." Film critic Richard Roeper ranked the film the second best of 2001. Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls Vanilla Sky a "highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory", but then says: "As it leaves behind the real world and begins exploring life as a waking dream (this year's most popular theme in Hollywood movies with lofty ideas), Vanilla Sky loosens its emotional grip and becomes

468-664: A disorganised and abstract if still-intriguing meditation on parallel themes. One is the quest for eternal life and eternal youth; another is guilt and the ungovernable power of the unconscious mind to undermine science's utopian discoveries. David's redemption ultimately consists of his coming to grips with his own mortality, but that redemption lacks conviction." Salon.com called Vanilla Sky an "aggressively plotted puzzle picture, which clutches many allegedly deep themes to its heaving bosom without uncovering even an onion-skin layer of insight into any of them." The review rhetorically asks : "Who would have thought that Cameron Crowe had

520-420: A dream. It is revealed that, shortly after falling asleep drunk on the street, César signed a contract with Life Extension, a company specializing in cryonics , to be cryogenically preserved and to experience extremely lucid and lifelike virtual reality dreams. Returning to their headquarters, under supervision by prison officers, he discovers they specialize in cryonics with a twist: "artificial perception" or

572-401: A feature story on the lighting designer Lee Rose 's work on the film. The 2015 Blu-ray release offers the option to watch the film with an alternative ending. This ending expands on the details at the end of the film. While it all leads to the same conclusion, there are additional scenes, alternative takes, and alternative dialogue. After Rebecca describes the lucid dream, David rushes out of

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624-542: A gross income of $ 25,015,518 (24.9%). The final domestic gross income was $ 100.61 million while the international gross income was slightly higher at $ 102.76 million for a total worldwide gross income of $ 203.39 million. On Rotten Tomatoes , 43% of 174 critic reviews are positive and the average rating is 5.3/10. The site's consensus states: "An ambitious mix of genres, Vanilla Sky collapses into an incoherent jumble. Cruise's performance lacks depth, and it's hard to feel sympathy for his narcissistic character." On Metacritic ,

676-565: A mockup of an unmovable guardrail that we had to work the crane arm around. [Cruise] participated in these rehearsals as well so we shared a clear understanding of what my limitations and requirements would be." Filming lasted for six weeks around the New York City area, which included scenes in Central Park , the Upper West Side , SoHo , and Brooklyn . One prominent location in the area

728-436: A more lukewarm review, writing that he "found most of Open Your Eyes interesting" but remarked that "there's something about the picture that kept me from being completely involved". In 2016, Alejandro Amenábar said in a retrospective that Open Your Eyes was his worst film, saying that it had been written by teenagers, who did not know anything about life. In Spain, the film was the second highest-grossing Spanish film of

780-483: A movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. ... But the disheartening truth is that we can see Crowe taking all the right steps, the most Crowe-like steps, as he mounts a spectacle that overshoots boldness and ambition and idiosyncrasy and heads right for arrogance and pretension—and those last two are traits I never would have thought we'd have to ascribe to Crowe." Edward Guthmann of

832-421: A ride and sex. On the way to her house, however, she crashes the car with the intent to kill them both. César survives the crash but is horribly disfigured, beyond the help of cosmetic surgery, so he decides to wear a mask to conceal his face. Sofía cannot bear to see him and tries to keep her distance. After César's disfigurement, he begins to have a series of disorienting experiences. Drunk, César falls asleep in

884-412: A three-day memorial for him in his home. As part of the program, David had chosen to experience a lucid dream, in which his life would resume the morning after Sofia left him, however, a glitch in the software had caused other elements of his subconscious to distort his dream. David and Tech Support emerge on the rooftop, high above the clouds. There, Tech Support tells David that while they have corrected

936-466: A way to repair David's face despite their prior prognosis, he is plagued by bizarre experiences, such as brief flashbacks of his disfigurement and an encounter with a mysterious man at a bar who informs him that David is omnipotent, demonstrated by the entire bar falling silent at David's command. One day, while at Sofia's, David awakens to find himself in bed with Julie, whose face has replaced Sofia's in their photographs. In shock, he suffocates Julie. David

988-583: Is a 1997 Spanish film directed and co-scored by Alejandro Amenábar & written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil . It stars Eduardo Noriega , Penélope Cruz , Chete Lera , Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri . In 2002, Open Your Eyes was ranked no. 84 in the Top 100 Sci-Fi List by the Online Film Critics Society . The film's intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderón de la Barca 's 1635 play Life Is

1040-418: Is a performance while David gets into the elevator with Ventura, who tells him what happened at the end of his real life. Once they reach the roof, McCabe reenters again and his pleas to David not to believe Ventura become more and more desperate until he collapses onto the ground in despair. David's interaction with Sofia is extended as he tells her he loves her but "can't settle for a dream". He then jumps off

1092-418: Is arrested and imprisoned and his facial disfigurement is mysteriously restored. McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name "Life Extension". Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. Rebecca Dearborn, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses cryonic suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until

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1144-468: Is no music. At this point, David dashes out of the restroom for the elevator the way he does in the theatrical cut, but the scene in the lobby is expanded: David shoots the police officer who is firing at him and is then surrounded by a SWAT team whom McCabe tries to talk down, but the SWAT team fires at both of them. They black out and wake up in the emptied lobby where McCabe continues to applaud what he believes

1196-1669: Is the only film to receive four awards, including the ensemble award. The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called "The Actor". It is 16 inches (41 cm) tall, weighs over 12 pounds (5.4 kg), is cast in solid bronze, and produced by the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California . (Minimum of 3 wins) (Minimum of 10 nominations) Note: Winners are indicated in bold type. (Minimum of 3 wins) Gillian Anderson (1) Elizabeth Debicki (1) Felicity Huffman (1) Chandra Wilson (1) (Minimum of 10 nominations) David Hyde Pierce (8) Lorraine Bracco (3) Drea de Matteo (1) Nancy Marchand (1) Eric Stonestreet (3) Ed O'Neill (1) Sofía Vergara (3) Jimmy Smits (4) Rick Shroeder (1) Sharon Lawrence (1) Peter Boyle (2) Brad Garrett (1) Doris Roberts (2) Debra Messing (2) Alan Alda (1) Stockard Channing (2) Lily Tomlin (1) George Clooney (2) Sally Field (1) Josh O'Connor (1) Elizabeth Debicki (2) Claire Foy (2) Gillian Anderson (1) Helena Bonham Carter (1) Emma Corrin (1) Michael Richards (3) Jennifer Aniston (2) Julia Garner (3) Robert Downey Jr. (1) Lucy Liu (1) Jerry Orbach (1) Anthony Carrigan (1) Henry Winkler (1) William Shatner (2) Michelle Dockery (1) Alex Borstein (3) Kim Cattrall (2) Winona Ryder (1) Open Your Eyes (1997 film) Open Your Eyes (Spanish: Abre los ojos )

1248-541: The San Francisco Chronicle similarly says of the film, "most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal-attraction stalker is both heartbreaking and terrifying." For her performance, Diaz won multiple critics' groups awards, as well as being nominated for the Golden Globe Award , Screen Actors Guild Award , Critics' Choice Movie Award , Saturn Award , and AFI Award . Penélope Cruz 's performance earned her

1300-620: The San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 2/4 and wrote: "The film's aim—to dazzle and inspire—is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian and Gareth Von Kallenbach of the publication Film Threat compared Vanilla Sky unfavorably to Open Your Eyes . Bradshaw says Open Your Eyes is "certainly more distinctive than" Vanilla Sky , which he describes as an "extraordinarily narcissistic high-concept vanity project for producer-star Tom Cruise." Other reviewers extrapolate from

1352-633: The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Auditorium . On December 4, 2017, it was announced that the awards show would have its first host in its then twenty-four year history, with actress Kristen Bell presiding over the ceremony. As of 2023, Shakespeare in Love is the only film to receive nominations for all four acting categories and the ensemble award and Everything Everywhere All at Once

1404-445: The 1998 Sundance Film Festival , Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner optioned the remake rights. Hoping to entice director Cameron Crowe , who collaborated with Cruise on Jerry Maguire , Cruise invited Crowe over to his house to view the film. Cruise has stated: I've been offered a lot of films to buy and remake, and I never have because I felt it was too connected with the culture of that place, whatever country it

1456-576: The Icelandic group Sigur Rós . According to Cameron Crowe's commentary, there are five different interpretations of the ending: Crowe notes that the presence of a "Vanilla Sky" during the morning reunion after the nightclub scene marks the first lucid dream scene and that everything that follows is a dream. Vanilla Sky opened at number one at the box office in the United States when it was first presented on December 14, 2001. The opening weekend took in

1508-410: The accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed. David joins Brian and Sofia at a club, but they all leave after David starts an argument while drunk. After David insults them and they part ways, David passes out on the street outside the club. The next day, Sofia returns and apologizes to David. She takes him home, the two form a relationship and he slowly begins to recover. After surgeons find

1560-498: The awards come from two committees, one for film and one for television, each numbering 2,100 members of the union, randomly selected anew each year, with the full membership (165,000 as of 2012) available to vote for the winners. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards in acting categories. The awards have been telecast on TNT from 1998 to 2022, and have been simulcast on TBS from 2007 to 2022. In May 2022 it

1612-484: The bar. As the elevator climbs to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man explains that he is Tech Support and that David has been in suspension for 150 years. Unable to face the twin traumas of the loss of his love, Sofia, and his facial injuries, he had opted for Life Extension, to be awakened when technology could repair his face, and left the publishing company in the hands of his father's associates, ultimately overdosing on medication and causing Brian to arrange

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1664-435: The building, screaming "I want to wake up!" as images from his life flash before his eyes. He wakes up in bed and a voice tells him "Open your eyes. You're going to be fine." Vanilla Sky 's score was by Crowe's then wife, Nancy Wilson , who also scored Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous . Wilson spent nine months on the film's music, which was done through experimentation of sound collages . "We were trying to balance out

1716-536: The days after completing Almost Famous , the opportunity to keep our film-making team together was too attractive to pass up. I'd always written my own original screenplays, but Open Your Eyes , with its open-ended and impressionistic themes, felt like a great song for our 'band' to cover . — Cameron Crowe , explaining his reason for directing Vanilla Sky . After the American debut of Alejandro Amenábar 's 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos ( Open Your Eyes ) at

1768-500: The end of the film, César decides to wake and be resurrected by committing suicide. Convinced his life since the drunken night in the street has been a nightmarish vision created by Life Extension, he leaps from the roof of the company's high-rise headquarters, and the film ends, apparently ambiguously, on a black screen with a woman telling him to open his eyes. The film was theatrically released on 19 December 1997. Open Your Eyes received mostly positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes ,

1820-511: The experience". Rob Blackwelder of SplicedWire gave the film four stars (out of four), calling it "a jaw-dropping psychological thriller" that's "beautifully orchestrated". Richard Scheib of The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review also gave Open Your Eyes four stars, writing that it is "quite a remarkable film". Holly E. Ordway of DVD Active wrote "I don’t give out “perfect 10” ratings lightly, but Open Your Eyes earns one by all accounts". However, Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk gave

1872-399: The film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "D−" on a scale from A to F. Roger Ebert 's printed review of Vanilla Sky awarded the film three out of four stars: Think it all the way through, and Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky is a scrupulously moral picture. It tells

1924-652: The film has an 85% approval rating based on reviews from 47 critics, with a weighted average score of 7.39 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states: "Director Alejandro Amenábar tackles some heady issues with finesse and clarity in Open Your Eyes , a gripping exploration of existentialism and the human spirit". James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three and a half stars (out of four), writing that movies "of this intelligence, audacity, and complexity come along so rarely that it's mandatory to cry out their arrival" and that "those who see it will not quickly forget

1976-402: The film. "I didn't do anything that was overtly obvious, because the story revolves around the main character not knowing whether he's in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so we want it to feel a little ambiguous," said cinematographer John Toll . "We want the audience to make discoveries as [Cruise]'s character does, rather than ahead of him." American Cinematographer magazine wrote

2028-462: The flaw, he now has a choice of either being returned to the dream or being restored to life, requiring a literal leap of faith off the roof that will wake him from his sleep. David chooses the latter, despite McCabe warning him against it. Before jumping, David envisions Brian and Sofia to say his goodbyes. He leaps from the edge of the building, and his life flashes before him. A female voice invites him to open his eyes. David opens his right eye. In

2080-410: The heaviness of the story with sugary pop-culture music," she said. "We made sound collages of all kinds. We were channeling Brian Wilson to a large extent. I was recording things through hoses, around corners, playing guitars with cello bows, and with [music editor] Carl Kaller, we tried all kinds of wacky stuff. In the murder–sex scene sound collage, Cameron even used Brian Wilson's speaking voice from

2132-511: The knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a version of Amenábar's film. A Village Voice reviewer characterized Vanilla Sky as "hauntingly frank about being a manifestation of its star's cosmic narcissism ". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Cameron Diaz "compelling as the embodiment of crazed sensuality" and The New York Times reviewer said she gives a "ferociously emotional" performance. Edward Guthmann of

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2184-420: The night together at Sofia's apartment and fall in love, unaware that David's current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. She purposely crashes the car, killing herself and disfiguring David. Doctors cannot repair his face using plastic surgery, forcing David to wear a prosthetic mask, and the mental and physical scarring from

2236-472: The owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe. In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father's trusted associates while living as a playboy in Manhattan . He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party. David and Sofia spend

2288-480: The provision of a fantasy based on the past to clients who are reborn in the future. He committed suicide at home shortly after signing the contract and was placed in cryonic suspension. Duvernois, the L.E. representative who explains César's experiences to him while dreaming, reveals that the era is 150 years in the future and César's time from his awakening in the street onward has been a dream, spliced retroactively into his actual life and replacing his true memories. At

2340-494: The room but does not immediately dash towards the elevator. He meets McCabe in the restroom who tries to convince him that this is all a hoax and a con and that his case is going to trial. David tells him that he's only in his imagination. Much like in the theatrical cut, the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" plays, but this version makes it clear that David hears the music and that he chose it; meanwhile, McCabe tries to convince him there

2392-444: The story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because—well, maybe because he has a conscience . Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times. Ebert interpreted the ending as an explanation for "the mechanism of our confusion", rather than

2444-447: The street. On awakening, everything has changed: Sofía now claims to love him and the surgeons restore his lost looks. But as he makes love to Sofía one night, she suddenly changes into Nuria. Horrified, César smothers her to death with a pillow. Yet everyone else believes Nuria is indeed the woman everyone else calls Sofía, and he is imprisoned for her murder. While he is confined to the prison, fragments of his past return to him as if in

2496-451: The year behind Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley with a gross of $ 7.8 million. In the United States and Canada it grossed $ 370,720. Elsewhere it grossed $ 0.7 million. Source: Abre Los Ojos at Discogs (list of releases). Director Cameron Crowe 's film Vanilla Sky (2001) is a remake of Open Your Eyes . It stars Tom Cruise in the lead role (renamed David Aames), Penélope Cruz reprising her role as Sofia, Cameron Diaz as

2548-522: Was announced that both TNT and TBS will no longer air the awards. In January 2023, it was announced that Netflix will air the awards live beginning in 2024 as part of a new multi-year partnership, with the 2023 ceremony being announced to be live streamed on Netflix's YouTube channel as Netflix was still working out its live streaming capabilities at the time of the announcement. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25, 1995, from Universal Studios ' Stage 12. The second SAG awards aired live from

2600-531: Was founded in 1995 to recognize outstanding performances in movie and prime time television. SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in the Hollywood film industry since then, along with the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars . SAG awards focus both on individual performances and on the work of the entire ensemble of a drama series and comedy series, and the cast of a motion picture. Nominations for

2652-463: Was from. But this was a universal story that was still open-ended, that still felt like it needed another chapter to be told. The title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by Claude Monet . In addition to Monet's impressionistic artwork, the film's tone was derived from the acoustic ballad "By Way of Sorrow" by Julie Miller and a line from an early interview of Elvis Presley in which he said, "I feel lonely, even in

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2704-668: Was the Condé Nast Building that served as Aames Publishing and David's office. After filming finished in New York, production moved to Los Angeles , where the remaining interior shots were completed at Paramount Studios . Crowe intentionally left in shots of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks as a tribute. Despite the film's distorted aspects of reality, the style of cinematography remains grounded for much of

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