

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Direction
Marshall stages numbers as Roxie's fantasies—reality never gets a song.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that make you forget half these people die.
Costume
Zeta-Jones's black sequins could cut glass. Literally.

Director
Rob Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Catherine Zeta-Jones was actually pregnant during filming; her tight costumes were strategically designed to hide it. The baby bump became Hollywood's best-kept secret in sequins.
The film's Oscar sweep revived the movie musical after a decade of death, but its bitter cynicism about fame feels more prescient now in the Instagram era than in 2002.