2002: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

  1. Talk to Her (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)

  2. Bloody Sunday (dir: Peter Greengrass)

  3. Y Tu Mamá También (dir: Alfonso Cuarón)

  4. Far From Heaven (dir: Todd Haynes)

  5. Adaptation. (dir: Spike Jonze)

  6. The Pianist (dir: Roman Polanski)

  7. 25th Hour (dir: Spike Lee)

  8. 24 Hour Party People (dir: Michael Winterbottom)

  9. Punch-Drunk Love (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

  10. Little Otik (dir: Jan Svankmajer; US release date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): About Schmidt (dir: Alexander Payne), Catch Me if You Can (dir: Steven Spielberg), Femme Fatale (dir: Brian De Palma), Gangs of New York (dir: Martin Scorsese), Insomnia (dir: Christopher Nolan), Japón (dir: Carlos Reygadas), Minority Report (dir: Steven Spielberg), The Piano Teacher (dir: Michael Haneke), Songs from the Second Floor (dir: Roy Andersson), Spider-Man (dir: Sam Raimi) and Unfaithful (dir: Adrian Lyne)

Best Film of the Year: Talk to Her
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Producer: Augustin Almodóvar
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics


Pedro Almodóvar (right) directs Rosario Flores on the set of Talk to Her

Best Director:
Pedro Almodóvar, Talk to Her
2. Spike Jonze, Adaptation.
3. Alfonso Cuarón, Y Tu Mamá También
4. Paul Greengrass, Bloody Sunday
5. Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven


James Nesbitt in Peter Greengrass' Bloody Sunday

James Nesbitt in Peter Greengrass' Bloody Sunday

Best Actor:
James Nesbitt, Bloody Sunday
2Nicolas Cage, Adaptation.
3. Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me if You Can
4. Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt
5. Adrien Brody, The Pianist

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Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher

Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher

Best Actress:
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
2. Diane Lane, Unfaithful
3. Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven
4. Thandie Newton, The Truth About Charlie
5. Maribel Verdu, Y Tu Mama Tambien


Chris Cooper in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation.

Chris Cooper in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation.

Best Supporting Actor:
Chris Cooper, Adaptation.
2. Brian Cox, 25th Hour
3. Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
4. Barry Pepper, 25th Hour
5. Christopher Walken, Catch Me if You Can

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Meryl Streep in Spike Jonze's Adaptation.

Meryl Streep in Spike Jonze's Adaptation.

Best Supporting Actress:
Meryl Streep, Adaptation.
2. Nicole Kidman, The Hours
3. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago
4. Emily Mortimer, Lovely & Amazing
5. Maria Bello, Auto Focus


Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También

Best Original Screenplay:
Y Tu Mamá También – Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón
2. Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar
3. 24 Hour Party People – Frank Cottrell Boyce
4. Far from Heaven – Todd Haynes
5. Songs from the Second Floor – Roy Andersson


Chris Cooper in Spike Jonze's Adaptation.

Chris Cooper in Spike Jonze's Adaptation.

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Adaptation. – Charlie Kaufman 
2. Little Otik – Jan Svankmajer
3. The Pianist – Ronald Harwood
4. The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke
5. 25th Hour – David Benioff


Adam Sandler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love

Adam Sandler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love

Best Cinematography:
Punch-Drunk Love — Robert Elswit

2. Far from Heaven — Ed Lachman
3. Road to Perdition — Conrad L. Hall
4. Minority Report — Janusz Kaminski
5. Talk to Her — Javier Aguirresarobe

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Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her

Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her

Best Original Score:
Talk to Her — Alberto Iglesias
2. Punch-Drunk Love – Jon Brion
3. Femme Fatale – Ryuichi Sakamoto
4. Far from Heaven – Elmer Bernstein
5. Road to Perdition — Thomas Newman


Samantha Morton and Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report

Samantha Morton and Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report

Best Film Editing:
Minority Report — Michael Kahn
2. 24 Hour Party People – Trevor Waite and Michael Winterbottom
3. The Rules of Attraction — Sharon Rutter
4. Insomnia — Dody Dorn
5. Y Tu Mamá También — Alfonso Cuaron and Alex Rodriguez

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Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York

Best Production Design:
Gangs of New York — Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
2. Minority Report – Alex McDowell and Anne Kuljian
3. The Pianist – Allan Starski, Wieslawa Chojkowska and Gabriele Wolff
4. Chicago — John Myhre and Gord Sim
5. Bloody Sunday — John Paul Kelly and Padraig O’Neill

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Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York

Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York

Best Costume Design:
Gangs of New York — Sandy Powell

2. The Cat’s Meow — Caroline De Vivaise
3. CQ — Judy Shrewsbury
4. Chicago — Colleen Atwood
5. Far from Heaven — Sandy Powell

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Best Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2. Minority Report
3. Little Otik


Best Sound
Road to Perdition

2. Chicago
3. 24 Hour Party People


Best Makeup
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers

2. Russian Ark
3. The Hours


Best Documentary Feature:
Jose Padilha, Bus 174

Best Animated Feature:
Jan Svankmajer, Little Otik

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Best Limited Series:
Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self

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Best Ensemble Cast: 
25th Hour

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha

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Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Spike Lee; in alphabetical order): Brian Cox, Rosario Dawson (pictured), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, Anna Paquin, Barry Pepper (pictured) and Tony Siragusa

Best First Feature: Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha


RECAP

W I N S :

Adaptation.3, Talk to Her 3,
Gangs of New York 2, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2, 25th Hour1, Bloody Sunday 1, Bus 174 1, The Century of the Self 1, Funny Ha Ha 1, Little Otik 1, Minority Report 1, The Piano Teacher 1, Punch-Drunk Love 1, Road to Perdition 1, Y Tu Mamá También 1


M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Far from Heaven 7,
25th Hour 6, Adaptation.6, Talk to Her 5, Y Tu Mama Tambien 5, 24 Hour Party People 4, Bloody Sunday 4, Chicago 4, Little Otik 4, Minority Report 4, The Pianist 4, Talk to Her 4, Gangs of New York 3, Punch-Drunk Love 3, Road to Perdition 3, Catch Me if You Can 2, The Hours 2, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2, The Piano Teacher 2


the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 20102009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 197619751974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 19551954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s