Erin Brockovich (film)

Erin Brockovich
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Written by	Susannah Grant
Produced by	Danny DeVito Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher
Starring	Julia Roberts Albert Finney Aaron Eckhart
Cinematography	Ed Lachman
Edited by	Anne V. Coates
Music by	Thomas Newman
Production companies	Universal Pictures Columbia Pictures Jersey Films
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (North America)[1] Columbia Pictures (through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International; International)[1]
Release date	March 17, 2000 (2000-03-17)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$52 million
Box office	$256.3 million

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographical legal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant.^[2] The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. The film emerged as a critical and commercial success at the box-office.

Erin Brockovich received five nominations at the 73rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Soderbergh) and Best Supporting Actor (for Albert Finney), winning Best Actress (for Roberts). For her performance, Roberts also earned the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Additionally, the film also won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director (for Soderbergh, also for Traffic) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (for Finney).