On the big screen, Owen again impressed with his turn in "Gosford Park" (2001), director Robert Altman's delightful ensemble riff on British drawing room murder mysteries, playing the brooding Robert Park, who emerges as a central figure in the storyline. Off that success he was cast in the big budget studio adaptation of Robert Ludlum's spy thriller "The Bourne Identity" (2002) as the ruthless, steel-nerved assassin The Professor. Owen next starred opposite Angelina Jolie, in the disappointing melodrama "Beyond Borders" (2003) the story of a disaster-relief worker who falls in love with a socially conscious wealthy woman, but he rebounded strongly when he reunited with Hodges for the noirish "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (2004), playing a retired British gangster who emerges from his secluded countryside life to investigate the death of his brother. Next up was Antoine Fuqua's supposedly "demystified" retelling of the legend of "King Arthur" (2004), a big budget, action-oriented film that cast Owen as England's once and future king, this time set in a more historically correct context. Owen the appeared in the highly literate, often romantically brutal drama "Closer" directed by Mike Nichols, playing part of two couples (including Natalie Portman, Julian Roberts and Jude Law) who become messily intertwined in a love/sex gender war. For his hard-edged performance, Owen took home the Golden Globe trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. Hot off his Golden Globe win, Owen earned a spot in the Best Supporting Actor category for the Academy Awards.