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Studio:Touchstone Pictures
Director:Michael Mann
Screenwriter:Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Story:Marie Brenner, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (Vanity Fair, May 1996)
Producer:Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
Director of Photography:Dante Spinotti
Editor:William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
Production:Brian Morris
Music:Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke
Cast:Al Pacino (Lowell Bergman)
 Russell Crowe (Jeffrey Wigand)
 Christopher Plummer (Mike Wallace)
 Diane Venora (Liane Wigand)
 Philip Baker Hall (Don Hewitt)
 Debi Mazar (Debbie DeLuca)
 Gina Gershon (Helen Caparelli)
 Rip Torn (John Scanlon)
Awards:Nominated, Academy Award, 2000, best picture (Mann, Brugge), best actor in a leading role (Crowe), best director (Mann), best writing, screenplay based on material previously produced or published (Roth, Mann), best cinematography (Spinotti), best editing (Goldenberg, Rubell, Rosenbloom), best sound (Andy Nelson, Doug Hemphill, Lee Orloff)
 Nominated, Golden Globe, 2000, best director-motion picture (Mann), best motion picture-drama, best performance by an actor in a motion picture (Crowe), best screenplay-motion picture (Roth, Mann), best original score (Gerrard, Bourke)
 Color, 158 minutes.