In the early 2000s, Russell Crowe was one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Crowe began to work in American feature films throughout the 1990s, appearing in movies like "Virtuosity," and "The Quick and the Dead." He really got noticed in 1997 when he appeared as the hard-fisted Bud White in Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential." Crowe received his first Oscar nomination in 1999 for his performance in "The Insider," and he won an Oscar for playing the title fighter in Ridley Scott's 2000 epic "Gladiator." Not to be outdone, he was nominated again in 2001 for playing the real-life mathematician John Nash in Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind." Crowe stood astride the Earth like a mighty Colossus.

Thereafter, Crowe seemed to carefully select mostly prestige pictures that allowed him to stretch as an

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