The Top 10 of the Year
1. About Schmidt - Alexander Payne + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Dramedy of the Year + Best Road Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year
3. Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes + Best Connecticut Movie of the Year + Best Melodrama of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: Julianne Moore & Dennis Haysbert
4. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress/Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise - Dai Sijie + Best Chinese Movie of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year
5. The Pianist - Roman Polanski + Best French Movie of the Year + Best Music Movie of the Year + True Story Movie of the Year + Best War Movie of the Year
6. All or Nothing - Mike Leigh + Best Drama of the Year + Best English Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Movie of the Year
7. Frida - Julie Taymor + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Biopic of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Breakthrough of the Year: Salma Hayek
8. The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear/Drengen Der Ville Gøre det Umulige/The Boy Who Wanted to Do the Impossible - Jannik Hastrup + Best Animation of the Year + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year
9. Adaptation - Spike Jonze + Best Adaptation of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
10. Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass + Best Irish Movie of the Year
Other great movies and TV-series (in alphabetic order)
24 - season 2 - Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow, creators + Best Thriller of the Year
25th Hour - Spike Lee + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year
Cabin Fever - Eli Roth + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Gore Movie of the Year
Dark Water/ 仄暗い水の底から (Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara) - Hideo Nakata + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Japanese Movie of the Year
Die Another Day - Lee Tamahori + Best Action Adventure of the Year
My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Joel Zwick + Best Dollar Return of the Year: 73.74 Times + Best Romcom of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Nia Vardalos
One Hour Photo - Mark Romanek + Best Psychological Thriller of the Year
Open Hearts/Elsker Dig for Evigt - Susanne Bier + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year
Talk to Her/Hable con Ella - Pedro Almodóvar + Best Spanish Movie of the Year
Good, recommendable movies (in alphabetic order)
28 Days Later - Danny Boyle + Best London Movie of the Year + Best Zombie Movie of the Year
At Kende Sandheden - Nils Malmros + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year
Collateral Damage - Andrew Davis + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 53.68 mil. $ range
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Peter Care + Best Independent Movie of the Year
Igby Goes Down - Burr Steers + Best Huge Flop of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year
Insomnia - Christopher Nolan + Best Alaska Movie of the Year + Best Detective Movie of the Year + Best Remake of the Year
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - George Lucas + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Yoda vs. County Dooku + Best Space Movie of the Year
The Bottom 10 of the Year
1. The Gathering - Brian Gilbert + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Worst Dollar Return of the Year: 0.07 Times
3. Gangs of New York - Martin Scorsese + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
4. Halloween: Resurrection - Rick Rosenthal
6. Blood Work - Clint Eastwood
7. Solaris - Steven Soderbergh
9. A Walk to Remember - Adam Shankman
10. Barbershop - Tim Story + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
Other failed, poor and/or mediocre movies (in alphabetic order)
24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom
Blade II - Guillermo del Toro + Best Monster Movie of the Year
The Bourne Identity - Doug Liman
Bubba Ho-Tep - Don Coscarelli
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - George Clooney
Dahmer - David Jacobson + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Jeremy Renner
Deathwatch - Michael J. Bassett
Demonlover - Olivier Assayas + Worst Poster of the Year
Dirty Pretty Things - Stephen Frears
Eight Legged Freaks - Ellory Elkayem
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chris Columbus + Biggest Moneymaker of the Year: 251.84 mil. $ profit range
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, TV movie - Rod Daniel + Best TV movie of the Year
Humørkort-stativ-sælgerens Søn - Peter Bay
The Man on the Train/L'Homme du Train - Patrice Leconte
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands - Shane Meadows
Spider - David Cronenberg
[54 titles in total]
Notes:
The first update of the 2002 lists adds 19 reviewed titles with 2 added to the top and 4 to the bottom lists.
Alexander Payne's divine road movie dramedy About Schmidt remains at #1, followed by new entry Stephen Frears' overwhelming drama The Hours taking silver and Todd Haynes' sumptuous, affecting melodrama Far from Heaven bronze. The list goes on with Dai Sijie's semi-autobiographical political period drama-romance Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress; new entry Roman Polanski's affecting true-story Holocaust drama The Pianist; Mike Leigh's funny and socially relevant All or Nothing; Julie Taymor's vigorously acted artist biopic Frida; Jannik Hastrup's originally animated, Greenland-set family fairytale The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear; Spike Jonze's wry, insightful adaptation/non-adaptation Adaptation; and with Paul Greengrass' vivid, grueling Bloody Sunday rounding off the list. Joel Zwick's crowd-pleasing feel-great romcom My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Spike Lee's nuanced post-9/11 New York-drama 25th Hour leave the Top 10 in this update.
Other great outputs of the year includes a gnarly cabin-in-the-woods body horror (Cabin Fever), a chilling J-horror (Dark Water), an intense Dogme drama (Open Hearts), a highly original romance (Punch-Drunk Love) and a cartoonish, effervescent Bond spectacle (Die Another Day).
On
the Bottom 10 list no less than 3 master filmmakers assert themselves
questioningly and prove that quality runs high and low, also among the
best:
Brian Gilbert's horror bungle The Gathering remains #1, the year's worst, now with new entries Jesper W. Nielsen's grating dramedy Okay taking silver and master filmmaker Martin Scorsese's pompous period street epic Gangs of New York bronze. The list goes on with Rick Rosenthal's horrible horror Halloween: Resurrection; Steve Beck's tiresome horror Ghost Ship; master filmmaker Clint Eastwood's inconsequential, flawed Blood Work; master filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's dull, quizzical sci-fi adaptation Solaris; new entry Dominique Standaert's politically spoiled immigrant drama Hop; Adam Shankman's banal teen romance A Walk to Remember; and with Tim Story's tiring talk-heavy sleep-inducer Barbershop rounding off the Bottom 10. Leaving the list in this update are George Clooney's curious game-show Cold War debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Olivier Assayas' unlikely porn industry thriller Demonlover; master filmmaker Stephen Frears' illegal immigrant drama Dirty Pretty Things and David Cronenberg's taxing schizophrenia portrait Spider.
Other great filmmakers batting under average in 2002 include Guillermo Del Toro with Blade II, Chris Columbus with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Shane Meadows with Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.
George Clooney figures prominently in 2 of the years slugs; Solaris and as director of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered one of his career's worst flops with the year's costliest flop, good actioner Collateral, but also Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk Love), Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman (High Crimes) and Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) lost studios millions this year. which had its release botched by the 9/11 attacks the year before, - as audiences still apparently were unwilling to go for an action vehicle about foreign terrorism on US soil the following year.
Among the stars who noted good returns in 2002 are Colin Farrell (Phone Booth), Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep (The Hours), Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt), Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity), Pierce Brosnan (Die Another Day), Salma Hayek (Frida), Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman (Star Wars - Episode II - Attack of the Clones) and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
Coming updates will increase the number of reviewed titles.
On the 2003 Oscars:
The 75th Academy Awards was hosted by Steve Martin, back after first helming in 2001. Musical Chicago emerged as the night's big winner with 6 statuettes, with The Pianist its closest competitor with 3. 33 mil. viewers tuned in in the US, making the show the lowest-rated and least-watched in Oscar TV history up to this point.
Chicago led the nominations with 13, with Gangs of New York second with 10 nods.
Chicago became the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! (1968), defeating fellow Best Picture nominees Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Pianist. It also won Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Sound, Art Direction, Costume Design and Editing. Roman Polanski won Best Director for The Pianist, which also won Best Actor (Adrien Brody) and Adapted Screenplay (Ronald Harwood). Nicole Kidman won Best Actress for The Hours; Chris Cooper won Supporting Actor for Adaptation; Pedro Almodóvar won Best Original Screenplay for Talk to Her; Spirited Away won Best Animation, and Nowhere in Africa Best Foreign Language Film. Bowling for Columbine won Best Documentary with Twin Towers, This Charming Man and The ChubbChubbs! winning Best Short Documentary, Live Action and Animation. Elliot Goldenthal won Best Score for Frida, which also won for makeup; Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto Best Song for Lose Yourself from 8 Mile. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers won Best Sound Editing and Visual Effects. Conrad Hall won Best Cinematography for Road to Perdition. Peter O'Toole received an honorary Oscar.
Biggest flops of the year:
[The
loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Collateral - 53.68 mil. $ range
2. Blood Work - 37.32 mil. $ range
3. Solaris - 35 mil. $ range
4. Gangs of New York - 22.52 mil. $ range
5. Punch-Drunk Love - 20.16 mil. $ range
6. The Gathering - 17.48 mil. $ range
7. Confessions of A Dangerous Mind - 16.8 mil. $ range
8. High Crimes - 16.52 mil. $
9. Eight Legged Freaks - 11.68 mil. $ range
10. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - 11.2 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 242.36 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The
gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 251.84 mil. $ range
2. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - 144.72 mil. $ range
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - 142.48 mil. $ range
4. Die Another Day - 30.76 mil. $ range
5. Phone Booth - 26.12 mil. $ range
6. The Bourne Identity - 25.6 mil. $ range
7. 28 Days Later - 25.08 mil. $ range
8. Barbershop - 18.8 mil. $ range
9. The Hours - 18.52 mil. $ range
10. Talk to Her - 17.88 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 701.8 mil. $
2002 titles currently on the watch-list:
Comedian, The Emperor's Club, Blissfully Yours, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, Whale Rider, In America, The Twilight Samurai, Twin Sisters, Gone Nutty, Squash, Die Rote Jacke, Balseros, The Weather Underground, Stevie, Respiro, Welcome to Collinwood, Bright Future
Previous annual lists:
2023 in films - according to Film Excess
2022 in films - according to Film Excess
2021 in films - according to Film Excess
2020 in films - according to Film Excess
2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2019 in films - according to Film Excess
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What do you think of the 2002 lists?
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