For his role in "Disney's The Kid", at the 22nd Young Artist Awards presented by the Young Artist Association Breslin won the 2000 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film by a Young Actor Age Ten or Under. He was also nominated for the 2001 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor awarded by Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and the 2000 YoungStar Award for Best Young Actor in a Comedy Film, presented by "The Hollywood Reporter". Film critic A. O. Scott writing for "The New York Times" observed: "Mr. Willis stands by while a child swipes a movie out of his open palm ... Spencer Breslin, Russ's tubby, cute-but-annoying almost-8-year-old self." CNN correspondent Sherri Sylvester said: "8-year-old Spencer Breslin knows how to deliver a line. Hard to believe that Disney's "The Kid" is his first feature film." Film critic Kenneth Turan wrote in the "Los Angeles Times": "Though Rusty was supposed to be 10 in the original script, the filmmakers made him 8 so they could cast Spencer Breslin in the role, and it is not hard to see why... Breslin is a charming presence, with a variety of woebegone looks and a gift for mimicking his older self." Shirley Sealy wrote in "Film Journal International" of Breslin: "He's something else... Even an old pro like Bruce Willis sometimes seems totally blown away by the natural comic gifts and spontaneity of his mini co-star... a very talented kid." "Entertainment Weekly" observed: "children ... will have fun ... by all means ... especially because young Breslin ... is such a natural, funny, unmannered boy." The film grossed $110 million, and was a financial success.