We all breathe the same air.We all cherish our children""s future.And we are all mortal."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With no Academy Award nominations.With a production budget of $68 million, and box-office gross receipts of $119 million (domestic) and $194 million (worldwide).The film""s defining elements included expressionistic, shadowy chiaroscuro lighting, strange camera angles, frequent first-person, descriptive voice-over narration, innovative set design, a convoluted time frame, and numerous flashbacks o frame the narrative.de Winter at his table.The young woman explains her employment as a "paid companion" to Mrs.Van Hopper, a job she took after her father, a painter, died the previous summer (her mother died years earlier).The Matrixwas he first in a trilogy with inferior sequels: the somewhat successful but critically-deridedThe Matrix Reloaded (2003)and the artificially-expandedThe Matrix Revolutions (2003).