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Events on Friday 12 May 2000 2
2000GladiatorOscar Best Picture 2000 — $460m worldwideDirected by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe. A Roman general is betrayed, enslaved, and becomes a gladiator seeking revenge. Won 5 Academy Awards.
2000Tate Modern opens in LondonA Bankside power station becomes a museum of modern artTate Modern opened to the public on 12 May 2000 in the converted Bankside Power Station on the south bank of the Thames. It quickly became one of the most visited modern art museums in the world, drawing more than five million people in its first year. Its Turbine Hall commissions became a fixture of the art calendar.