Annal:2002 Academy Award® for Best Motion Picture
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2002. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
- 2002 Golden Globe-Drama winner
- 2002 Oscar-Picture winner
- 2002 BAFTA-Film nominee
- Score: 26.52
A Beautiful Mind manages to twist enough pathos out of John Nash's incredible life story to redeem an at-times goofy portrayal of schizophrenia. Russell Crowe tackles the role with characteristic fervor, playing the Nobel prize-winning mathematician from his days at Princeton, where he developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his meteoric rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions. Of course, it is the delusions that fascinate director Ron Howard and,…
- 2002 Edgar–Video nominee
- 2002 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2002 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 18.52
Gosford Park finds director Robert Altman in sumptuously fine form indeed. From the opening shots, as the camera peers through the trees at an opulent English country estate, Altman exploits the 1930s period setting and whodunit formula of the film expertly. Aristocrats gather together for a weekend shooting party with their dutiful servants in tow, and the upstairs/downstairs division of the classes is perfectly tailored to Altman’s method (as employed in Nashville and Short Cuts) of overlapping bits of dialogue and numerous subplots in…
The Lord of the Rings: Part 1. The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2002 BAFTA-Film winner
- 2002 Hugo-Video winner
- 2002 MTV-Movie winner
- 2002 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2002 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2002 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2002 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 58.52
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is an epic adventure of good against evil, the power of friendship and individual courage. The saga centers around an unassuming Hobbit named Frodo Baggins who inherits a Ring that would give a dark and powerful lord the power to enslave the world. With a loyal fellowship of elves, dwarves, men and a wizard, Frodo embarks on a heroic quest to destroy the One Ring and pave the way for the emergence of mankind.
- 2002 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2002 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 12.52
When a film with such emotional resonance and visual poise as In the Bedroom makes it to the screen, it seems an unexpected gift meant to remind us of the medium’s possibility for sensitivity and epiphany. First-time director Todd Field, who adapted the film from a story by Andre Dubus with screenwriter Rob Festinger, quietly observes the loss, rage, and inexorable desire for revenge that follows the murder of a 21-year-old son. The film opens with Frank (Nick Stahl), back from college for the summer, taking up with Natalie (Marisa Tomei), a slightly…
- 2002 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy winner
- 2002 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2002 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 22.52
A spectacle beyond anything you’ve ever witnessed. An experience beyond everything you’ve ever imagined. Behind the red velvet curtain, the ultimate seduction of your senses is about to begin. Welcome to the Moulin Rouge! Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor sing, dance and scale the heights of passionate abandon in the year’s most talked-about movie from visionary director Baz Luhrmann (William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom). Enter a tantalizing world that celebrates truth, beauty, freedom and above all things, love.
