Hollow Man is a 2000 Academy award-nominated science fiction thriller film , starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin and directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film is about a scientist who makes himself invisible, a story which is inspired by H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2000. The sequel Hollow Man 2 was released direct-to-video in 2006.PlotBacon plays Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but egotistical scientist w