Moulin Rouge! musical nominated for Best Picture in 10 years, following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). In BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000, "Moulin Rouge!" ranked 53rd. In the year 1900, a British writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor), suffering from depression, begins writing on his typewriter ("Nature Boy"). As Christian narrates, the film flashes back to one year earlier upon Christian's move to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemian movement. He soon discovers that his neighbours are a loose troupe of performers led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo).
Moulin Rouge (1952 film) he was taxed too much. "Moulin Rouge" received seven Academy Award nominations and won two: The film was not nominated for its color cinematography, which many critics found remarkable. Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie and Video Guide declared: "If you can't catch this in color, skip it." The film received three BAFTA Nominations for The film won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Colette Marchand In an interview shortly after his successful film version of "Cabaret" opened, Bob Fosse acknowledged Huston's filming of the can-can in "Moulin Rouge" as being very influential on his own film