Miss Congeniality (film) Miss Congeniality (film) Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and starring Sandra Bullock with Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, and Candice Bergen. "Miss Congeniality" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22, 2000 and was a box office hit grossing $212 million worldwide. Bullock also garnered a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. A sequel, "", was released in March 24, 2005. In 1982, a very young Gracie Hart steps into
William Shatner the franchise. Shatner co-starred in the movie "Miss Congeniality" (2000) as Stan Fields, playing the role of co-host of the Miss United States Pageant alongside future "Boston Legal" co-star Candice Bergen. He reprised the role in the sequel "" (2004), in which Stan Fields was kidnapped in Las Vegas along with the winner of the pageant of the previous year. (Shatner hosted the Miss USA Pageant in 2001 as a real presenter in Gary, Indiana.) In the live-action/animated film "Osmosis Jones" (2001), he voiced Mayor Phlegmming, the self-centered head of the "City of Frank", a community comprising all the cells