She gained her third Golden Globe Award, her second Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie’s performance as “properly-measured and shifting,” played “with respect and a agency grasp on a difficult accent.” Jolie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her efficiency. The Chicago Tribune famous, “Jolie actually shines in the calm earlier than the storm, the scenes when one patronizing male authority figure after one other belittles her at their peril.” Jolie obtained nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award. In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke within the thriller Taking Lives. Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action film Wanted, an adaptation of Mark Millar’s graphic novel of the identical title. Slant commented, “Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft however director Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger.” The movie was an international success nonetheless, incomes $275 million worldwide, and launched her international fame as a feminine motion star.

Tea Party in Kyoto Originally written as a male character, Salt underwent a gender change after a Columbia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the position to director Phillip Noyce. The film failed domestically, which director Oliver Stone attributed to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander’s bisexuality, but it succeeded internationally, with income of $139 million outdoors the United States. Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro’s The great Shepherd (2006), a film in regards to the early history of the CIA, as seen by the eyes of Edward Wilson, an officer based on James Jesus Angleton and performed by Matt Damon. She appeared within the music video for Korn’s “Did My Time”, which was used to advertise the film. In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer season blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, through which she performed Sarah “Sway” Wayland, the ex-girlfriend of automobile thief Nicolas Cage. In February 2001, she went on her first field go to, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.

In February 2013, it was announced that Jolie will be teaming up with the Coen brothers to inform the story of World War II hero Louis Zamperini. She also made her directorial feature debut with Within the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner of struggle, set during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Jolie then starred reverse Brad Pitt within the 2005 action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which tells the story of a bored married couple, John and Jane Smith, who discover out that they’re both secret assassins. For it is shameful even to speak of these things which are executed by them in secret. The actual motive for this apparent stupidity is at this point not anybody’s protection (in all probability not even themselves consider it anymore) but somewhat forcing submission — it’s the same psychological tactic utilized by any oppressor: he just offers a nonsensical order, like “begin barking like a canine!”, to see who blindly conforms and who doesn’t — those who do not are just eradicated right away and those that conform out of worry have their will broken, they will now blindly obey the ruler with out considering in regards to the sanity of his orders.

Peter Travers wrote, “Depp and Jolie hit career lows, producing the chemistry of excessive-style zombies.” Roger Ebert defended Jolie, stating she “does her darndest” and “plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-lifeless sexuality.” Despite the overall criticism, after a sluggish start at the home field office, the film went on to gross a respectable $278 million worldwide. The film obtained blended opinions and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, “Angelina Jolie plays a role that positively seems like something she has already completed, however she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour.” She also offered the voice of the angelfish Lola in the DreamWorks animated film Shark Tale (2004), and had a quick look in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), a science fiction journey movie shot totally with actors in entrance of a bluescreen. In 2011, Jolie reprised her voice position as Master Tigress within the animated DreamWorks sequel Kung Fu Panda 2. It became the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2011 and Jolie’s highest grossing movie so far, earning $666 million on the worldwide box workplace.