Shyamalan for the films Signs (2002) and The Village (2004) and win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the Joker in Joker (2019). Harris' performance in Gladiator resulted in his casting as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). Several members of the cast and crew have commented on the impact the film has had on their careers and its cultural legacy. In a 2020 interview with Yahoo!, Möller remarked that he continues to get recognized by many people for his performance as Hagen. Scott considers the film one of the top three favorite films he has directed. Crowe noted that the quality of the film has helped find new fans twenty years on television after its release. When being interviewed by Den of Geek in 2020, Wick said this about the film's impact.I think if you’ve been around for a while, one of the things you’ll learn is that if you look at a hundred years of movies, every cycle repeats, and it’s all about someone who will be able to reinvent it. Every 20 years there’ll be a vampire movie, and the 20-year-old versions usually start to look kitsch. Luckily with Gladiator that’s not the case. Modern reception Today, Gladiator is considered to be one of the greatest action films ever made, one of the greatest historical epic films ever made, and one of the greatest films of both the 2000s decade and 21st Century. On their "100 Best Movies Of All Time list", Empire ranked the film as the thirty-ninth best film ever made, and would also rank the film as the twenty-second best film of the 21st Century. Gladiator was also named one of the best films of the 21st Century by The Guardian, and was also included in Rotten Tomatoes' "The 140 Essential 2000 Movies." Den of Geek and Collider both named Gladiator as the best historical epic ever made, and one of The Guardian's twenty-five best action and war films. Numerous websites including Vulture and /Film named Gladiator in the top ten films from Scott. The film is also included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. The American Film Institute included Gladiator as one of the four-hundred films nominated for their AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list, while ranking Maximus as the fiftieth greatest hero in film. The character of