Johnny Depp, critically acclaimed for his performance of Captain Jack Sparrow, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
The first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, became a runaway hit in 2003, surprising many who believed the pirate genre was dead. Deeps > Contemporary Film and the Black Atlantic > History > Disneyfied Histories: Disney’s Intentional Inaccuracy, Historical Films, and The Black Atlantic > Pirates of the Caribbean: The (Almost) Slaveless Caribbean, Race, and the Black Atlanticĭisney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise began as a theme park ride.