Chicago
Rob Marshall · 2002
Rob Marshall’s 2002 musical adapts the Broadway hit into a sleek, satirical portrait of fame and justice in 1920s Chicago. Framing songs as Roxie Hart’s internal fantasies, it contrasts vaudeville stylisation with gritty realism to expose how spectacle displaces truth. Starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere, it won six Oscars including Best Picture—the first musical to do so since 1968.