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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Ensemble Cast: 
25th Hour

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

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 Hour— 1, 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:
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Best of the Decade:
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