Out of Sight

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{{Short description|1998 US crime comedy film by Steven Soderbergh}}
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{{Infobox film
| image = Out of Sight 1998 film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Steven Soderbergh]]
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Danny DeVito]]
* [[Michael Shamberg]]
* [[Stacey Sher]]
}}
| screenplay = [[Scott Frank]]
| based_on = {{Based on|''[[Out of Sight (novel)|Out of Sight]]''|[[Elmore Leonard]]}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[George Clooney]]
* [[Jennifer Lopez]]
* [[Ving Rhames]]
* [[Don Cheadle]]
* [[Dennis Farina]]
* [[Albert Brooks]]
}}
| music = [[David Holmes (musician)|David Holmes]]
| cinematography = [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]]
| editing = [[Anne V. Coates]]
| studio = [[Danny DeVito|Jersey Films]]
| distributor = [[Universal Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1998|06|26}}
| runtime = 123 minutes<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/out-sight-1970-6 | title=''OUT OF SIGHT'' (15) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=July 14, 1998 | access-date=January 27, 2016 | archive-date=February 2, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202110741/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/out-sight-1970-6 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $48 million
| gross = $77.7 million<ref name="boxoffice"/>
}}
'''''Out of Sight''''' is a 1998 American [[action comedy film]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/out-of-sight-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmjq0oty|title=Out of Sight|website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]}}</ref> directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]] and written by [[Scott Frank]], [[Film adaptation|adapted]] from [[Elmore Leonard]]'s [[Out of Sight (novel)|1996 novel]]. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor [[George Clooney]], it was released on June 26, 1998.

The film stars Clooney and [[Jennifer Lopez]], co-starring [[Ving Rhames]], [[Don Cheadle]], [[Dennis Farina]], [[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]], [[Steve Zahn]], [[Catherine Keener]], and [[Albert Brooks]]. There are also special appearances by [[Michael Keaton]], briefly reprising his role as Ray Nicolette from [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' the previous year, and [[Samuel L. Jackson]].

The film received [[Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] and [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]. It won the [[Edgar Award]] for [[List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners|Best Screenplay]] and the [[National Society of Film Critics]] awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film led to a short-lived spin-off television series in 2003 titled ''[[Karen Sisco]]'' starring [[Carla Gugino]], who would reprise her role from the series in a 2012 [[Justified (season 3)|third season]] [[Cut Ties|episode]] of ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]].'' [[Paul Calderón]] reprised his role as Raymond Cruz from the film in the 2023 sequel [[miniseries]] ''[[Justified: City Primeval]]''.

==Plot==
''The movie intercuts between flashbacks and the present day. This plot summary follows the true chronology.''

Career [[bank robber]] Jack Foley is incarcerated at [[United States Penitentiary, Lompoc|Lompoc Penitentiary]] in California along with his friend and accomplice Buddy, after Buddy's sister snitches on them before a heist. While at Lompoc, Foley meets Glenn—a nervous petty criminal who always wears sunglasses, even at night—as well as Richard Ripley, a wealthy [[White-collar crime|white collar criminal]] from [[Detroit]]. Foley saves Ripley from being extorted by boxer Maurice "Snoopy" Miller, leading Ripley to promise Foley a job on the outside. He also brags about a cache of [[rough diamond|uncut diamonds]] hidden at his home.

After his release, Foley turns up at Ripley's office but is only offered a menial security guard position. He confronts Ripley to complain, but Ripley only expresses disdain for Foley's criminal past and throws him out of the building. As Foley walks away he notices a bank across the street, impulsively (and unsuccessfully) robs it, and is sent to [[Glades Correctional Institution]] in Florida.

At Glades, he deduces that fellow inmate Chino is orchestrating a breakout and plans to tag along. Foley calls his ex-wife Adele, an out-of-work [[magician's assistant]], to notify Buddy and Glenn to assist. However, on the night of the breakout [[U.S. Marshal]] Karen Sisco arrives at the prison at the same time as Buddy, spots the men tunneling outside, and alerts the guards. In the confusion, Foley exits the tunnel in a guard's uniform and overpowers her. The men steal her car, and Foley forces her to hide with him in the trunk while Buddy drives. In the trunk, Foley and Sisco start talking to one another and begin to connect emotionally. They then meet Glenn to switch cars. Sisco recognizes him from a previous prisoner transport job and convinces him to drive off with her to avoid being arrested again for assisting a fugitive. Not long after, he panics, crashes the car and flees, and Sisco is taken to hospital. Foley and Buddy make their own way to [[Miami]].

Sisco has a dream where she tracks down Foley, but instead of arresting him she has sex with him. After the dream, Sisco is determined to join the task force hunting for Foley and the other fugitives. Independently, she questions Adele, and happens to arrest Chino who arrives at her apartment seeking revenge on Foley. This earns her a place on the task force, but the lead agent forces her to wait in the lobby while they raid Buddy's hotel room. She and Foley spot each other as he and Buddy are in an elevator on their way to the basement garage from which they make their escape. While in the elevator, Foley waves at Sisco, but she lets them go without alerting the other agents.

The men head to Detroit, planning to break into Ripley's house and steal the hidden uncut diamonds. However, Miller is already putting his own burglary team together: his brother-in-law Kenneth, henchman White Boy Bob, and a reluctant Glenn, whom Miller first forces to help kill a rival drug dealer. Foley and Buddy meet with Miller and agree to team up on the robbery. Meanwhile Sisco, on their trail, questions Miller's wife Moselle, and defends herself when Kenneth attempts to assault her. Foley surprises Sisco at her hotel's bar, and they spend a romantic night together.

Glenn gets cold feet and runs into Sisco, who lets him escape, and she continues to tail Foley. The thieves break into Ripley's mansion, threaten his housekeeper Midge, and struggle to shoot open the safe upstairs. Meanwhile, Foley and Buddy find Ripley hiding in his study, where Foley deduces that the uncut diamonds (which look like small, nondescript stones) are hidden in Ripley's large tropical fish tank. Ripley reveals that he is in love with his maid Midge, and refuses to leave without her. He is then captured by Miller.

Unwilling to leave Midge to be raped by Miller and his associates, Foley gives Buddy the diamonds and goes back inside. He shoots Kenneth in bed, then is held at gunpoint by White Boy Bob, who trips on the stairs and accidentally shoots himself in the head. Sisco arrives and shoots Miller in self-defense. Unwilling to return to prison, Foley confronts Sisco with an empty gun, imploring her to kill him. Sisco instead shoots him in the leg and arrests him.

In the police van outside Foley meets another detainee, Hejira Henry, who claims to have escaped from prison nine times. Realizing that Sisco arranged for them to meet and go back to Glades together, Foley smiles knowingly as the van leaves for Florida.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[George Clooney]] as Jack Foley
* [[Jennifer Lopez]] as Karen Sisco
* [[Ving Rhames]] as Buddy Bragg
* [[Don Cheadle]] as Maurice "Snoopy" Miller
* [[Steve Zahn]] as Glenn Michaels
* [[Albert Brooks]] as Richard "Dick The Ripper" Ripley
* [[Dennis Farina]] as Marshall Sisco
* [[Luis Guzmán]] as Jose "Chino" Chirino
* [[Isaiah Washington]] as Kenneth
* [[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]] as Midge
* [[Keith Loneker]] as White Boy Bob
* [[Catherine Keener]] as Adele Delisi
* [[Viola Davis]] as Moselle Miller
* [[Paul Calderón]] as Raymond Cruz
* [[Paul Soileau]] as Aurelio "Lulu" Linares
* [[Wendell B. Harris Jr.]] as Daniel Burdon
* [[Michael Keaton]] as Ray Nicolette (''uncredited'')
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]] as Hejira Henry (''uncredited'')
* [[Connie Sawyer]] as Old Elevator Lady
}}

==Production==
===Development===
The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the ''[[Detroit News]]'' of a beautiful young female [[United States Marshals Service|federal marshal]] standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer [[Danny DeVito]] bought the rights to the book after his success with the [[Get Shorty (film)|1995 film adaptation]] of Leonard's novel ''[[Get Shorty]]''. Steven Soderbergh had made two films for [[Universal Pictures]] when executive [[Casey Silver]] offered him ''Out of Sight'' with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, "These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention."<ref name= "Jones, Belinda">{{cite news | last = Jones | first = Belinda | title = Rockumentaries... | work = [[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] | date = January 1999 }}</ref>

===Casting===
[[Sandra Bullock]] was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, "What happened was I spent some time with [Clooney and Bullock] and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy."<ref name= "Showbiz">{{cite news | title = Steven Soderbergh Interview | work = Mr. Showbiz | year = 1998 }}</ref>

The character of Foley appealed to Clooney, who as a boy had considered as heroes the bank robbers in movies, citing "the [[James Cagney|Cagneys]] and the [[Humphrey Bogart|Bogarts]], [[Steve McQueen (actor)|Steve McQueen]] and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"<ref name= "Decha, Max">{{cite news | last = Decha | first = Max | title = America's Most Wanted | work = [[Neon (magazine)|Neon]] | pages = 52 | date = December 1998 }}</ref>

Soderbergh cites [[Nicolas Roeg]]'s 1973 film ''[[Don't Look Now]]'' as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."<ref name= "Showbiz"/>

[[Danny DeVito]] and [[Garry Shandling]] were considered for the part of Ripley before [[Albert Brooks]] was cast.

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel ''[[Rum Punch]]'', which was being filmed as ''[[Jackie Brown (film)|Jackie Brown]]'' when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on ''Out of Sight''. After [[Michael Keaton]] was cast as the detective Nicolette in ''Jackie Brown'', Universal subsequently cast him for a cameo in the same role in ''Out of Sight''. While [[Miramax Films]] owned the rights to the character because ''Jackie Brown'' went into production first, director [[Quentin Tarantino]] felt it was imperative that Miramax not charge Universal for using the character, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax receiving financial compensation. Nicolette appears in only one brief scene, whereas the character is a much more substantial element of ''Jackie Brown''.

===Music===
[[Disc jockey|DJ]] [[David Holmes (musician)|David Holmes]] was originally hired to write a few sections of the film's theme music. Soderbergh liked what he did so much that he had Holmes score the rest of the film. Holmes spent six weeks working 12- to 17-hour days to finish the score in time for the film's release. He drew upon several influences, including [[Lalo Schifrin]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Sun Ra]], and [[Willie Bobo]].<ref name= "Bautz">{{cite magazine | last = Bautz | first = Mark | title = ''Sight'' and Sound | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = June 25, 1998 | url = https://ew.com/article/1998/06/25/sight-and-sound/ | access-date = 2009-05-23 | archive-date = 2011-05-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514095608/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,83568,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

==Release==
''Out of Sight'' was released on June 26, 1998, in 2,106 theaters and grossed [[USD]] 12 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $37.5 million domestically and $40.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $77.7 million.<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite news| title =''Out of Sight''| work =Box Office| url =http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/out-of-sight-1998?q=Out%20of%20Sight| access-date =2008-05-06| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140202175812/http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/out-of-sight-1998?q=Out%20of%20Sight| archive-date =2014-02-02}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
''Out of Sight'' received critical acclaim. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a 94% approval rating, based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Steven Soderbergh's intelligently crafted adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel is witty, sexy, surprisingly entertaining, and a star-making turn for George Clooney."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|id=1083436-1083436-out_of_sight|title=Out of Sight}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 84 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{Metacritic film}}</ref>

Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three and a half out of four stars and praised Clooney's performance, stating: "Clooney has never been better. A lot of actors who are handsome when young need to put on some miles before the full flavor emerges ... Here Clooney at last looks like a big screen star; the good-looking leading man from television is over with."<ref name="ebert">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=June 19, 1998 |title=''Out of Sight'' |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/out-of-sight-1998 |access-date=2023-01-06}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' praised Lopez's performance, writing, "Ms. Lopez has her best movie role thus far, and she brings it both seductiveness and grit; if it was hard to imagine a hard-working, pistol-packing bombshell on the page, it couldn't be easier here."<ref name= "maslin">{{cite news | last = Maslin | first = Janet | title = A Thief, a Marshal, an Item | work = [[New York Times]] | date = June 26, 1998 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/062698sight-film-review.html | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> [[Andrew Sarris]], in his review for ''[[The New York Observer]]'', wrote, "For once in a mainstream production, the narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric. They don't make movies like this anymore, in this overcalculated and overtested era."<ref name= "sarris">{{cite news | last = Sarris | first = Andrew | title = Sleeping With the Enemy … Of Course, the Enemy Is Jennifer Lopez | work = [[The New York Observer]] | date = June 28, 1998 | url = http://www.observer.com/node/40697 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100107053421/http://www.observer.com/node/40697 | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 7, 2010 | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> In his review for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Kenneth Turan wrote, "As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill. Making adroit use of complex flashbacks, freeze frames and other stylistic flourishes, he's managed to put his personal stamp on the film while staying faithful to the irreplaceable spirit of the original."<ref name="turan">{{cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |title=''Out of Sight'' |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 26, 1998 |url=http://suprememale.tk/installing-the-bad-boy-mindset/,0,6661507.story |access-date=2009-01-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://suprememale.tk/installing-the-bad-boy-mindset/ |archive-date=May 24, 2006 }}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a "B+" rating and [[Owen Gleiberman]] wrote, "This is Clooney's wiliest, most complex star turn yet. It helps that he's lost the Beverly Hills Caesar cut (he's actually more handsome with his hair swept back), and his performance is slyly two-tiered: Foley is all charming moxie on the surface, a bit clueless underneath."<ref name= "gleiberman">{{cite magazine | last = Gleiberman | first = Owen | title = ''Out of Sight'' | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = June 26, 1998 | url = https://ew.com/article/1998/06/26/out-sight/ | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> [[Richard Schickel]], in his review for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', wrote, "What makes this movie work is the kind of cool that made ''[[Get Shorty (film)|Get Shorty]]'' go so nicely: an understanding that life's little adventures rarely come in neat three-act packages, the way most movies now do, and the unruffled presentation of outrageously twisted dialogue, characters and situations as if they were the most natural things in the world."<ref name= "schickel">{{cite magazine | last = Schickel | first = Richard | title = ''Out of Sight'' | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = July 6, 1998 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988686,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081015163405/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988686,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 15, 2008 | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> In her review for the ''[[L.A. Weekly]]'', [[Manohla Dargis]] wrote, "This isn't a profound film, or even an important one, but then it isn't trying to be; it's so diverting and so full of small, satisfying pleasures, you don't realize how good it is until after it's over."<ref name= "dargis">{{cite news | last = Dargis | first = Manohla | title = With A Bullet | work = [[L.A. Weekly]] | date = June 24, 1998 | url = http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/with-a-bullet/7350/ | access-date = 2008-05-06 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Recipient(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[71st Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/71st-winners.html |title=The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners |access-date=19 November 2011 |work=Oscars.org}}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]]
| [[Scott Frank]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Anne V. Coates]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ALMA Award]]s
| Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
| [[Jennifer Lopez]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| Anne V. Coates
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Casting Society of America#Artios Awards|Artios Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castingsociety.com/awards/artios/1999 |title=Nominees/Winners |publisher=[[Casting Society of America]] |accessdate= July 10, 2019}}</ref>
| [[Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Big Budget Feature (Drama)|Best Casting for Feature Film – Drama]]
| Francine Maisler
| {{nom}}
|-
| Awards Circuit Community Awards
| Best Adapted Screenplay
| Scott Frank
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1998|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1990s/ |title=BSFC Winners: 1990s |website=[[Boston Society of Film Critics]] |date=27 July 2018 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[George Clooney]]
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| [[4th Critics' Choice Awards|Critics' Choice Movie Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1998.php |title=The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1998 |publisher=[[Critics Choice Association|Broadcast Film Critics Association]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212034409/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1998.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2008}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1998|Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film|Best Picture]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Edgar Awards|Edgar Allan Poe Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-motion-picture/ |title=Category List – Best Motion Picture |website=[[Edgar Awards]] |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
| [[List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners|Best Motion Picture Screenplay]]
| Scott Frank {{small|(screenplay)}}; [[Elmore Leonard]] {{small|(novel)}}
| {{won}}
|-
| [[4th Empire Awards|Empire Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/awards99/bfilm.html |title=Best Actress |work=[[Empireonline.co.uk]] |year=1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819093250/http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/awards99/bactress.html |archive-date=August 19, 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="awards2">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024094617/http://www.hollywoodactress.org/Jennifer-Lopez-Profile.php|archive-date=October 24, 2009|url=http://www.hollywoodactress.org/Jennifer-Lopez-Profile.php |title=Jennifer Lopez Profile, Professional Details, Awards and Achievements |publisher=Hollywood Actress|date=July 24, 1969 |access-date=April 9, 2012}}</ref>
| [[Empire Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
|Jennifer Lopez
|{{nom}}
|-
| [[1st Golden Trailer Awards|Golden Trailer Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Best Music
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1999 MTV Movie Awards|MTV Movie Awards]]
| [[MTV Movie Award for Best Actor in a Movie|Best Female Performance]]
| Jennifer Lopez
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss|Best Kiss]]
| George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[1998 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |website=[[National Society of Film Critics]] |date=19 December 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Steven Soderbergh
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| New York Latin ACE Awards<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rivas |first1=Josue R. |title=Y los nominados para los premios ACE son... |newspaper=[[El Diario La Prensa]] |date=January 15, 1999 |page=33 |id={{ProQuest|368219135}}}}</ref>
| Best Actress
| Jennifer Lopez
| {{nom}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-awards/3rd-annual-film-awards-1998/ |title=3rd Annual Film Awards (1998) |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Online Film Critics Society Awards 1998|Online Film Critics Society Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ofcs.org/awards/1998-awards-2nd-annual/ |title=1998 Awards (2nd Annual) |website=[[Online Film Critics Society]] |date=3 January 2012 |access-date=November 21, 2021}}</ref>
| [[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
| Anne V. Coates
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sefca.net/winners#/1998 |title=1998 SEFA Awards |website=sefca.net |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| Best Picture
| {{draw|8th Place}}
|-
| Best Adapted Screenplay
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 1998|Toronto Film Critics Association Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontofilmcritics.com/past-award-winners/ |title=TFCA Past Award Winners |website=[[Toronto Film Critics Association]] |date=May 29, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2021}}</ref>
| [[Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Steven Soderbergh
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| [[Turkish Film Critics Association|Turkish Film Critics Association Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Best Foreign Film
| {{draw|4th Place}}
|-
| [[51st Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2 |title=WGA Awards: Previous Nominees and Winners |website=[[Writers Guild of America Award]] |year=1999 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|WGA|1999}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307145015/http://awards.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published]]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|}

'''[[American Film Institute]] Lists'''
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills]] – Nominated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills Nominees|access-date=2011-07-01|archive-date=2011-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706070532/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[AFI's 10 Top 10]] – Nominated Gangster Film

'''Other Honors'''
* ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' voted it as the sexiest film ever on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" poll<ref name= "EWSex">{{cite magazine | title = 50 Sexiest Movies Ever | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20241796_24,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081204063201/http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20241796_24,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 4, 2008 | access-date = 2009-01-22 }}</ref> and ranked it #9 on their Top 25 Modern Romances list.<ref name= "TopRomances">{{cite magazine | title = Top 25 Modern Romances | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = February 8, 2002 | url = https://ew.com/article/2002/02/08/top-25-modern-romances/ | access-date = 2009-02-26 | archive-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181014015822/https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,252562_2,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
* In 2012, the [[Motion Picture Editors Guild]] listed ''Out of Sight'' as the 52nd best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 75 Best Edited Films |journal=Editors Guild Magazine |date=May 2012 |volume=1 |issue=3 |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |access-date=2017-04-21 |archive-date=2015-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101140/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Impact and legacy===
In later years, Soderbergh would see the film as "a very conscious decision on my part to try and climb my way out of the arthouse ghetto which can be as much of a trap as making blockbuster films." He had just turned down directing ''[[Human Nature (2001 film)|Human Nature]]'', written by [[Charlie Kaufman]], to direct ''Out of Sight''. "And I was very aware that at that point in my career, half the business was off limits to me."<ref name= "Andrew, Geoff">{{cite news | last = Andrew | first = Geoff | title = Again, with 20% more existential grief | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = February 13, 2003 | url = http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,897475,00.html | access-date = 2008-05-06 }}</ref> Clooney said, "''Out of Sight'' was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I'd read where I just went, 'That's it.' And even though it didn't do really well box office-wise - we sort of tanked again - it was a really good film."<ref name= "Andrew, Geoff"/> Lopez said: "It kind of became a cult classic. It didn't get as much notice when it first came out at the box office but now, years later, so many people told me that was their favorite film. It's crazy."<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/vRLV_5Wu7XA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181212233749/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLV_5Wu7XA&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLV_5Wu7XA| title = Jennifer Lopez Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Characters {{!}} GQ | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 12 December 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Heist film]]

==References==
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