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Most Inspirational Movie Acting | 2004 | Stephen
Best Sound Editing in a Feature Music Feature Film | 2004 | Lisa
Best Original Song | 2004 | Bob
Worst OnScreen Couple | 2003 | Lydia
Budget 56,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,923,936 USD
Some scenes were filmed on Robert Duvall's estate in Virginia, which was the site of some Civil War skirmishes.
Martin Sheen was in the Washington, D.C. area in early September 2001, filming scenes for The West Wing (1999). He was prepared to take a Tuesday morning flight from Dulles to LAX if Warner Brothers agreed to pay him $1 million to reprise his role of Robert E. Lee from Gettysburg (1993). Because Warner Brothers passed, Sheen was not on Flight 77 the morning of September 11, 2001.
The majority of the Civil War re-enactors in the movie volunteered to appear without pay. In return, the production company agreed to donate at least $500,000 to preserve a Civil War battlefield.
The wide shots of the Union infantry advancing toward the stone wall during the Battle of Fredericksburg were not set up or filmed as visual effects shots. The film's re-enacting unit shrunk drastically due to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent travel concerns and military reserve call-ups. It wasn't fully evident until the wide shots were viewed in post-production. Visual effects supervisor Thomas G. Smith had to digitally create over 17,000 low-resolution CGI soldiers, then map out individual speeds for them: running, walking, or crawling wounded. He then added 3,000 dead soldiers to scatter around the shot.
Russell Crowe was the first choice to play Stonewall Jackson. Crowe expressed initial interest but eventually declined, citing a need to return to Australia and take a break from movie making. The role was then offered to Stephen Lang, who was already signed and rehearsing to reprise his Gettysburg (1993) character of General George Pickett. Billy Campbell took over the Pickett role.
"Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mother's son, some sister's brother, some daughter's father. Each one of them a whole person loved and cherished in some home far away. Many of them will never return. An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm. We have seen more suffering than any man should ever see, and if there is going to be an end to it, it must be an end that justifies the cost. Now, somewhere out there is the Confederate army. They claim they are fighting for their independence, for their freedom. Now, I can not question their integrity. I believe they are wrong but I can not question it. But I do question a system that defends its own freedom while it denies it to an entire race of men. I will admit it, Tom. War is a scourge, but so is slavery. It is the systematic coercion of one group of men over another. It has been around since the book of Genesis. It exists in every corner of the world, but that is no excuse for us to tolerate it here when we find it right infront of our very eyes in our own country. As God as my witness, there is no one I hold in my heart dearer than you. But if your life, or mine,is part of the price to end this curse and free the Negro, then let God's work be done."
"General Robert E. Lee: It is well that war is so terrible... or we should grow too fond of it."
