Best Actor nomination: Javier Bardem
    -Academy Awards®

Winner!
• Best Male Lead: Javier Bardem
Nominated:
• Best Feature
• Best Director: Julian Schnabel
• Best Cinematographer: Xavier Perez Grobet & Guillermo Rosas
    -Independent Spirit Awards

Best Actor in a Drama: Javier Bardem
    -Golden Globe Nomination

Winner!
• One of the Ten Best Films of 2000
• Best Actor: Javier Bardem
    -National Board of Review

Winner!
• Grand Jury Prize
• Coppa Volpi (Best Actor): Javier Bardem
    -Venice International Film Festival

"'Before Night Falls' is rapturous, intoxicating filmmaking... Don't miss it! Javier Bardem gives a mesmerizing and inspired performance!"
    -Rex Reed, New York Observer

"Impressive... painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel uses celluloid as a broad canvas to tell the life story of poet / author Reinaldo Arenas while vividly evoking pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba. Javier Bardem gives a breakthrough performance as Arenas."
    -Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune

"'Before Night Falls' is a potent, visually stunning masterpiece! Javier Bardem gives a riveting, emotionally naked performace."
    -Guy Flatley, Interview

"dizzyingly gorgeous"
    -Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"'Before Night Falls' is touching and profound. The best film of the Toronto Film Festival."
    -Jeffrey Wells, reel.com