Battle of New Yourk Gangs at AC

Oscar nominated Hollywood movie 'Gangs of New York' will be screened at 6 pm on Tuesday May 27 at the American Centre, Colombo-03.

This 2002 gangster film set in the middle 19th century in the Five Points district of New York City was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan.In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points, a number of citizens of British and Dutch heritage who were born in the United States began making an open display of their resentment toward the new arrivals.

William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better known as "Bill the Butcher" for his deadly skill with a knife, bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish immigrants; the immigrants in turn form a gang of their own, "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an especially bloody clash between the Natives and the Rabbits leaves Vallon dead, his son goes missing; the boy ends up in a brutal reform school before returning to the Five Points in 1862 as Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio).

It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Henry Thomas, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson and Brendan Gleeson. Gangs of New York won the Golden Globe Award of Best Director - Motion Picture for Martin Scorsese and Best Original Song for the song "The Hands That Built America" by U2. Daniel Day-Lewis won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.