Depp won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, in addition to Best Actor nominations at the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes. The film has been widely cited as the film that launched Depp as a box-office leading man after many years as a cult movie star. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with Depp's performance receiving universal acclaim. Defying low pre-release expectations, the film was a huge box-office success-it grossed $654.3 million worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2003. The first film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner to be rated PG-13 by the MPAA, The Curse of the Black Pearl had its world premiere at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, on June 28, 2003. Filming took place from October 2002 to March 2003 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and on sets constructed around Los Angeles, California. Around that time, producer Jerry Bruckheimer became involved in the project he had Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio work on the script, adding the plot device of a supernatural curse to the story to bring it in line with the original theme park ride. Jay Wolpert developed a script in 2001, and Stuart Beattie rewrote it in early 2002.

Barbossa's crew attempts to retrieve the final pieces of a hoard of Aztec gold to break the curse laid on them when they stole it. The story follows pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Bloom) as they rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Knightley) from the crew of the Black Pearl, captained by Hector Barbossa (Rush). The film stars Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film is based on Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks and the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski.

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